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Nov. 25, 2010 at 12:04 am CST

Sydney (Reuters) — An Australian probe into foreign ownership of the nation’s $31 billion farm sector has put food security back on that country’s political agenda. The government took foreign investors by surprise Monday, announcing a national audit of foreign ownership of farms and food production businesses, saying it wanted […]

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Oct. 29, 2010 at 4:12 pm CDT

(Reuters) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted restrictions against imports of Canadian canola meal from a Bunge Ltd. plant at Altona, Man., easing a situation that has sharply cut Canadian exports to the U.S. over health concerns. The FDA has removed the plant from its online […]

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Oct. 28, 2010 at 5:46 pm CDT

(Reuters) – The federal government will announce whether BHP Billiton can proceed with its hostile takeover bid for PotashCorp “in the not-too-distant future,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday. His comments indicate that Ottawa — due to make its ruling public by Nov. 3 — will not exercise the […]

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Oct. 20, 2010 at 12:21 am CDT

(Reuters) –– Canada’s first commercial shipments of beef and tallow to China in seven years may happen in December or early 2011, with technical work remaining to follow through on the Asian country’s political commitment to ease restrictions, an industry official said Tuesday. China agreed ahead of G20 meetings in […]

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Oct. 18, 2010 at 4:55 pm CDT

(Reuters) –– Scientists are poised to eliminate the deadly cattle disease rinderpest, ending a malady that has devastated animal herds for centuries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Thursday. “It would be the first time in history that humankind has succeeded in wiping out an animal disease in […]

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