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By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup

Agriculture Roundup for Thursday October 31, 2019

Oct 31, 2019 | 9:58 AM

The 2019 Youth Ag Summit will be held in Brazil next week and Craven’s Karly Rumpel will be attending the event as part of the Canadian delegation.

Rumpel is an agronomist that graduated from the University of Guelph’s agriculture program last spring. She is the only one from Saskatchewan attending this years summit.

Rumpel will be joined by 100 of the brightest agricultural minds in the world in an effort to stop world hunger.

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The fifth annual kick-off to Canadian Western Agribition (CWA) is being held Nov. 2 in downtown Regina.

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The event, being held at Local and Fresh, includes a free pancake breakfast in the Warehouse District and is open to everyone who wants a small taste of CWA 2019.

There will be face painting and live animals, including a horse, a heifer, a donkey, alpacas and goats and other activities for the whole family.

The event starts at 10 a.m.

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Maple Leaf Foods said its third-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago. It was hurt by difficult market conditions including volatile hog prices and the Chinese import suspension of Canadian pork.

The company said strong performance in prepared meats, value-added pork and poultry and plant protein was more than offset by the difficult pork market.

Maple Leaf said it earned roughly $13 million for the quarter that ended Sept. 30 compared with a profit of about $26 million a year ago.

The Ontario-based company employs about 12,000 and does business in Canada, the U.S. and Asia.

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