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Comment: A hard year for the grain sector
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Comment: A hard year for the grain sector

Relationships are key to navigating contracts this marketing year

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It’s an understatement to suggest that this was a hard year for crop producers and grain buyers in Manitoba. An “epic drought,” as one provincial cabinet minister described in August, left some producers across the province without enough grain to fulfil their contracts with buyers. With yields down across the board, there has been a
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Comment: Dangerous and inaccurate image

A recent photo in this publication sent the wrong message to all

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In a recent issue there was an article titled “Fertilizer prices climb sky high alongside commodity prices.” The article content may be good but I haven’t read it yet. I got stopped at the DANGEROUS photo of the anhydrous ammonia tanks that you purchased from Getty Images. This image sends all the wrong messages to
China has imposed a range of punitive tariffs on targeted Australian and Canadian sectors.
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Comment: Why have Canada and Australia taken such a different approach to China?

Canada and Australia both depend on the Chinese market, making managing that relationship vital

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Over the past two years, China has punished Canada and Australia for actions that the Chinese deem objectionable — and in response, both countries have faced unjust detentions of their citizens and sudden, harsh trade barriers. Yet these two members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance — which also includes the United Kingdom, the United
Managing a restaurant after the pandemic will not be easy.
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Comment: How many restaurants are enough?

Have we seen ‘peak restaurant’ or will the sector survive?

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A question that often comes up is, did we have too many restaurants before the pandemic? Many wonder if the pandemic has only wiped out the restaurants we had “extra” of. With the labour shortage, the cost of food ingredients exploding, and the list of regulations growing almost every year, making a restaurant profitable has
Comment: Carbon border adjustments are coming
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Comment: Carbon border adjustments are coming

The mechanism will level the playing field for exporters

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Carbon border adjustments are coming to Canada – it is just a matter of when. Ten days before calling the election, the Liberal government announced consultations would officially begin on carbon border adjustments. A policy paper detailing the policy was included. BCAs aim to reduce the so-called “carbon leakage” occurring when a company leaves a
Market undercurrents in the food sector may be harder to pick up now than five or 10 years ago.
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Comment: Lowballing food inflation

Evidence is mounting that StatCan may not be reflecting reality

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If you think food prices are increasing at a much faster pace than what Statistics Canada is suggesting, you are likely not imagining it. For a few years now, many Canadians suspected that the federal agency was either underestimating our food inflation rate, or that there was some sort of lag between what was going
Higher pork production this year versus last year has eased China’s imports of its staple protein.
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Comment: China lightens interest in pork imports but loads up on beef

Falling pork prices in China have quelled demand for imports

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Reuters – U.S. pork trade with China made a big breakthrough two years ago as the Chinese hog herd was thinned by disease and political relations began to mend, though U.S. exports to the top pork consumer have not performed as well this year relative to those from other suppliers. China’s pork production is expected
Scientists around the world have demonstrated the use of gene editing tools is as safe as any of the methods that have been used for thousands of years.
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Opinion: Plant-breeding innovations fuel future

This new technology can help solve some of the biggest challenges of tomorrow

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Just as we’ve seen the importance of science and innovation in combating the current public health challenge, they stand to play an equally important role in helping agriculture tackle the challenges it faces ahead. New pests and major weather events are increasing, making the job of producing food for a growing population even more challenging.
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Comment: Affordability key to participation in beef programs

Canadian beef producers don’t enjoy the support their counterparts in the U.S. do

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I wanted to applaud the recent Manitoba Co-operator editorial “A tale of two programs.” I read it in Alberta Farmer, where it was reprinted. As chair of the Alberta Beef Producers, it reflected many of my own views through this drought. We began to realize on July 9 that crops and cattle feed were deteriorating
A recent survey estimated that about 60 per cent of Canadians have used QR codes at a restaurant or in a grocery store in the last month.
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Comment: The rise of the QR code

They’ve been around awhile now, but the pandemic has given them a new prominence

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QR codes have been in our lives for a very long time. Before the pandemic, we used them a few times a year on average, tops. Now, most Canadians will use a QR code almost every week, and in some cases, daily. Implications for the food industry can be significant. Once deemed a clever tool

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