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This input helps accelerate crop residue breakdown A new crop input is available to producers from Mosaic Biosciences. The company recently launched Renuvis Enzara, an enzyme-based product designed to help accelerate residue breakdown. “When we say residue that can mean any crop from small grains to corn to soybeans,” Keith Byerly, commercial sustainability lead with Mosaic, told Farms.com. Mosaic is currently conducting trials to test the product’s efficacy on crops like canola and flax.

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal made its determination on Aug. 18 Dumping of wheat gluten from some countries is likely harming Canada’s domestic industry, an independent body said. The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) determined on Aug. 18 there’s “a reasonable indication” of domestic injury because of wheat gluten dumping from Italy, Poland, and the U.K. Dumping is the practice of a company selling a product to a foreign market at a lower price than it charges domestically.

Finland first announced African swine fever in its pork in July Canada is restricting some imports of Finnish pork and related products due to African swine fever (ASF) in that country. An Aug. 18 Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) notice indicates the measures are meant to “safeguard the health of Canada’s livestock and prevent the economic impact of a potential ASF outbreak in Canada.” ASF can be devastating for a country’s pork sector.