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ATLANTIC CANADA MILK PRICES HIGH . . . ATLANTIC CANADIAN RESOURCE INDUSTRIES ARE IN TURMOIL . . . THINK BIG (DATA) IN AGRICULTURE . . . NEW ENTERPRISE CANADA NETWORK . . . OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST...

ATLANTIC CANADA MILK PRICES HIGH
Source: The Chronicle Herald
Halifax, Moncton and Charlottetown have some of the most expensive milk in Canada, a survey released Monday by a retail intelligence firm says. The national average price for four liters of two percent milk is $4.80 or $1.20 per liter. But in Halifax, the average price for four liters of two percent milk is $6 ($1.50 per liter), Field Agent Canada’s Canadian Fluid Milk Report found. (read more)

ATLANTIC CANADIAN RESOURCE INDUSTRIES ARE IN TURMOIL
Source: Cape Breton Post
“The push for economic development from natural resources extraction and processing will increase.” Canada, for the past couple of centuries, has exploited its resources to drive its economy. While the nation has moved a major distance from the hewers of wood, drawers of water imagery of its early history, resource development remains a cornerstone of our economic development. (read more)

THINK BIG (DATA) IN AGRICULTURE
Source: FCC The United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization projects food production will need to grow 60 percent by 2050 to meet demand from a growing world population. An astonishing 91 percent of this increase is projected to come from yield increases and advances in productivity. (read more)

NEW ENTERPRISE CANADA NETWORK
Source: EDC.ca
A new website called Enterprise Canada Network (ECN) is about to make the life of small- to medium-sized companies (SMEs) looking for an easy way to get new contracts abroad a whole lot easier. The website works by matching profiles of selling companies (who post what kind of services and products they have expertise) and buying companies (who post what kind of services and products they are looking for). (read more)