A small claims court today heard that Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto had reached a settlement on Percy Schmeiser’s claim.
The terms of the settlement were a major victory for Percy, and farmers fighting the power of large agri-business interests.
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By Allan Dawson
Winnipeg Free Press
January 27 2008
THE Conservative minority government was elected two years ago and seems no closer to implementing an open market for barley than the day it came to power.
It’s not that it hasn’t really, really tried. It rigged the plebiscite on the barley marketing by giving farmers three choices instead of two and then combining results.
By John Ross
January 15, 2008
At the stroke of midnight this past January 1st, a hundred or so farmers and day laborers from both sides of the border converged on the hump of the Cordoba Las Americas bridge that connects up El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, to mark the demise of Mexican agriculture. In accordance with the timetables set by the North American Free Trade Agreement signed by Mexico, the U.S. and Canada 14 years ago, as of January 1st 2008, all tariffs on corn, beans, powdered milk, sugar and 200 agricultural products were reduced to zero, setting in motion a doomsday scenario that farmers organizations here say will inevitably lead to crisis in the Mexican “campo” or countryside, mass abandonment of unsustainable plots, increased hunger, and even armed rebellion by the nation’s beleaguered small farmers.
Tags: agriculture, Latin America, Mexico, trade
The International Food Policy Research Institute has joined the chorus of groups and individuals speaking out against the biofuel bandwagon.
Read Stephen Leahy’s Inter Press Service article here.
Tags: agriculture, biofuels, energy
There’s a lot of good information surfacing recently on the follies of making fuel out of food. Paul Beingessner, in a recent edition of his weekly syndicated column, does an excellent job of cutting through the hype to lay bare the major problems that the expansion of the biofuels industry creates — especially for the world’s poor…
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By Paul Beingessner
Column # 626
July 3, 2007
Increasing prices for grains and oilseeds have some farmers optimistic about agriculture for the first time in years. The agrofuels industry is one of the main causes for increasing grain prices. The other is the fact that for nearly a decade, the earth’s population has consumed more grains that it has produced. Agrofuels became the tipping point that caused speculators and genuine grain buyers to realize that the supply/demand equation for food was tilting dangerously. Now, more than in the last number of decades, the market is hanging on every weather report from around the world.
Tags: agriculture, biofuels, energy
