U.S. health officials are set to rule on whether a faster-growing, genetically engineered fish is safe to eat in a decision that could deliver the first altered animal food to consumers’ dinner plates.

In her article food figures need a pinch of salt, Isobel Tomlinson from the Soil Association suggests the idea that the world needs to double its food production by 2050 in order to feed a growing population is wrong.

Farm labour help is becoming harder to get because in most instances it is seasonal work, but teaching the younger people has become easier with the GPS systems taking over much of the guess work.

The top Saskatchewan official who has a big influence on mining licences is talking tough on BHP Billiton and China over Potash Corp.

It appears the Canadian Wheat Board and the supply managed groups are in some way holding the rest of the producers hostage because Canada, it seems like it at least, is entering trade negotiations with one hand tied behind its back.

The markets are showing bullishness while projections show American producers could produce another record corn crop and the key focus remains yield.

In an article called ‘making the point’ Alex Binkley says the recent run up in world wheat prices, created by weather problems in grain growing regions, has stirred up media interest in what it all means to food prices.

A rising tide is supposed to raise all the ships, but some grain prices for western Canadian producers have increased a lot more than others.

Worldwide, H1N1 2009 virus transmission remains most intense in parts of India and in parts of the temperate southern hemisphere, particularly New Zealand and more recently in Australia.

AMI Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel Mark Dopp they’re confident the USDA-DOJ workshops will show what dozens of analyses by the government and universities have concluded repeatedly, the U.S. meat and poultry industry is dynamic and competitive and that livestock and poultry procurement practices that include marketing agreements and forward contracts are legitimate.