Russian sanctions starting to bite into Canadian export outlook

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Canadian companies from farm-equipment manufacturers to pork producers started 2014 strong but spent much of the year adjusting to the economic instability in Russia, a country that bought $563 million worth of Canada’s agricultural exports in 2012.