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Agriculture Roundup for Monday November 7, 2022

Agriculture ministers from roughly 50 countries agreed to redouble their efforts on several issues.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau attended two days of meetings at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

The ministers agreed to continue their efforts to implement better practices to feed the growing world population, fight climate change, and ensure that farmers and workers can make a successful living from agricultural production.

Bibeau acknowledged the leadership of Canada’s producers in sustainable development and ensuring global food security.

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.