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Comment: A case for a code of practice
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Comment: A case for a code of practice

When there are no rules the large grocers can bully their supply chain

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Major Canadian grocers in Canada are at it again. After Walmart and Metro, it was Loblaw’s turn to make changes to its vendor policies, implementing new fees to support a $6-billion plan to improve its in-store and digital operations. Sobeys, the only one left, if you exclude Costco, opted not to follow suit. This has
Agricultural waste materials such as grain bags and plastic containers are being remade into things like drainage tiles and plastic bags.
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Canada’s agricultural industry growing the future of recycling

Proper stewardship is key to maintaining access to the plastics needed on farms

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Farmers earn their living from the land, and they work hard making sure their fields and farms remain healthy, well managed and free from litter and waste. This is an investment that benefits all of Canada, given the importance of our agricultural industry to feed our country and the world. While necessary to Canada’s agricultural
COVID-19 has pushed governments to consider food autonomy as a priority and support local supply chains. But buying local produce is easier said than done.
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Comment: The local food paradox

Governments are interested in food autonomy but price remains very important

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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting supply chains and impacting food purchasing habits, our relationship with food was different. Quite different. The pandemic has pushed governments to consider food autonomy as a priority and look more at local supply chains. Discussions are about producing food in Canada, all year round, while offering products to consumers
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Comment: Glyphosate and livestock. It’s all in the dose

Studies have found no effect on digestive bacteria or nutrient uptake

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As an animal nutritionist, I’m concerned about the health and welfare of farm animals. Animals that are stressed due to inadequate housing conditions or nutrition are less sustainable. That’s why I read the article “Herbicides and Horses” with great interest. In the article, the author speculates that glyphosate’s chelation and antimicrobial properties can have negative
China is set to have 51 per cent of the world’s wheat in storage by mid-2021.
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Comment: Wheat market looks beyond record stocks

U.S. and Russian crop woes are causing wheat prices to rally despite expected stockpiles

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Reuters – Chicago-traded wheat futures have rallied to near six-year highs on strong global demand and unfavourable planting conditions in some major exporters, despite the expectation for record-large stockpiles by mid-2021. Most active CBOT wheat hit US$6.38-1/4 per bushel on Oct. 20, the contract’s highest since Dec. 24, 2014. That is consistent with rising international
Across the country, companies are struggling to recruit people to work in food processing.
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Comment: Agri-food sector still sees labour shortage

Canadians are getting back to work, but not in your sector

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Job numbers are better. For the agri-food sector though, not so much. Statistics Canada’s recent September job market data is reassuring. Overall, employment in the country increased in September, creating 378,000 jobs, the majority of which were full-time jobs. This increase in September brought our total employment to 720,000, shy of the level we had
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Comment: Now would be a good time for some honest dishonesty

As the U.S. election looms, it makes one pine for simpler political times

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Somewhere in southern Illinois there’s a high school yearbook that contains a photo of me and another student leaning against a classroom wall on either side of a 1972 campaign poster of a smiling Richard Nixon. The caption writer, another student, notes that my buddy and I are “standing” with our man, the then incumbent
China is desperately trying to restore its image with its own population. As a risk manager, Beijing has not always looked good – far from it.
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Comment: The Chinese enigma

As the country where coronavirus first occurs shores up its reputation, there is collateral damage for food producers

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As the numbers of COVID-19 cases reach new heights these days, China is jubilant. In the country where the pandemic began less than a year ago, there have been 91,000 cases of COVID-19 recorded, with a total of about 4,800 victims. Data from the World Health Organization also tells us that China has conducted more
Strong soybean performance is primarily what bolstered a record August.
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Comment: China making good on Phase 1 trade deal

U.S. farm exports to China hit new August record thanks to soybeans

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U.S. agricultural exports to China had a sluggish start to 2020 relative to the lofty expectations set forth by the Phase 1 trade agreement, but the August value soared substantially over that of the prior months owing to strong soybean shipments. U.S. cotton exports to China hit a 7-1/2-year high in August, while corn shipments
We are just coming out of an era in which we have been bent on buying the cheapest food products.
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Comment: Higher grocery bills a fact of life

Many grocery categories have seen price increases at a rate much higher than general inflation

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Every month, Statistics Canada reminds us that life is getting more expensive. But for food, the situation has been unique over the last few decades. Based on numbers released recently, the price of a typical grocery basket has increased by about 240 per cent since 2000. Some will think that such a percentage is expected,

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