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Dec. 7, 2013 at 10:24 am CST

The World Trade Organization reached its first ever trade reform deal on Saturday to the roar of approval from nearly 160 ministers who had gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali to decide on the make-or-break agreement that could add $1 trillion to the global economy The approval came after […]

By Randy Fabi

Dec. 6, 2013 at 4:58 pm CST

Ministers appeared close to sealing the world’s biggest trade reform for two decades early on Saturday but a last-gasp objection from Cuba forced an overnight halt, leaving the World Trade Organization four votes short of a final victory. Earlier a major obstacle was overcome when India, the most vocal holdout, […]

By Randy Fabi

Dec. 5, 2013 at 8:38 pm CST

Global food prices were little changed in November after a rise the month before, but were down 4.4 per cent from a year earlier, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday, forecasting stable or declining prices in coming months. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which measures […]

Nov. 28, 2013 at 11:37 am CST

Canadian hay growers in the market for new mowers, rakes or spreaders will see a new player on some dealer lots next year. The Canadian arm of Japanese ag equipment maker Kubota has announced it will launch a new line of Kubota-branded hay tools in Canada in 2014. Norwegian farm […]

Nov. 27, 2013 at 5:12 am CST

Manitoba’s recovery from a 2011 drought, improved potato marketings in New Brunswick and changes in payment timing for Prairie wheat have helped boost farm cash receipts in the first three quarters of this year, Statistics Canada reports. Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled $39.9 billion between January and September, […]