

Smithfield Foods plots new course
New CEO has shaken up management team of world’s largest pork processor amid COVID challenges

Trump administration mulls industry-wide biofuel waiver
Comment period would end after Trump's exit

USDA unveils more COVID-19 aid, mostly for livestock farmers
Funds earmarked for farmers under contract

Innovations Showcase heads up reined-in Ag Days
The ag sector will have to make do with a few online efforts and a special publication this year

This week on ‘Between The Rows’
Episode 207, Jan. 14, 2021

COVID surprise comes to grain movement in 2020
How the pandemic helped Canada set a grain shipping record and what’s to come

Comment: The top 10 food stories of 2020
It was an action-packed 12 months for the agriculture and food sector

Manitoba to consolidate and shut agriculture, MASC offices
Province announces 'new rural service delivery model'

Ontario extends lost-labour production insurance
COVID-related coverage held over for 2021 program year

Comment: Households are getting sandwiched
Many Canadians are stuck between rising food prices and stagnant-at-best wages
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