The Canadian Wheat Board is in an intense battle to maintain its wheat and barley trading monopoly. The Canadian prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been the source of 15% of all wheat, 55% of durum wheat and 10% of barley in world trade during the last 10 years. A single organization, the [...]

North African nation is experiencing rapid growth in its feed and meat industries. An hour’s drive inland from the rapidly growing metropolis of Agadir, Morocco, a major agricultural cooperative, Copag, has begun a pilot program for confined feeding of cattle. The goal is to increase the quality and volume of local beef production, which still [...]