Daily Network News

More News →

Food

Dominic Barton. (Video screengrab from McKinsey.com)
Crops

Ambassador to China to leave post after helping free detainees

Canola, 5G access, other issues remain

By ,
Ottawa | Reuters –– Canada’s ambassador to China said on Monday he would soon leave his post after a two-year assignment where he helped secure the freedom of two Canadian detainees despite icy relations between Beijing and Ottawa. Dominic Barton’s departure, which will take effect Dec. 31, leaves a crucial diplomatic post open at a
Geopolitical issues will always have an impact on business, especially a global industry like agriculture where China will continue to be the main factor.
Markets, News

Global factors key in changing ag landscape

China, Russia, biofuel trends among factors likely to affect future market risks

By
I recently read The New Merchants of Grain: Out of the Shadows by Jonathan Kingsman. It’s like an updated version of the 1979 classic Dan Morgan book The Merchants of Grain. The book follows a series of interviews and discussions with senior executives from many well-known grain companies like ADM, Bunge and Glencore but also
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Cresting the wave, looking into next year’s trough

An influential market outlook sees lower returns in the future of farmers

By
There’s no good time for bad news. Most farmers and ranchers, however, prefer to hear it sooner than later to factor it into the day or season’s plan. Maybe that’s why our good friends at farmdocDaily, the online consortium of Land Grant extension specialists hosted by the University of Illinois, released a “Stress Test of
File photo outside Cargill’s beef slaughter and packing plant at High River, Alta. on May 6, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Todd Korol)
Beef cattle, Livestock

Strike averted at Cargill’s High River beef plant

Deal that hikes wages by 21 per cent and offers large bonuses receives majority backing

By ,
Workers at Cargill’s beef packing plant in southern Alberta have voted in favour of a contract that will hike wages by 21 per cent and provide improved health benefits. “The contract is the best of its kind and presented unprecedented gains in this time of economic and political uncertainty,” United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
Shipwheel Cattle Feeders of Taber, Alta. has found it can boost soil organic matter by integrating regenerative agriculture practices.
News

Carbon offset program made for regenerative individuality

By

REGENERATIVE | Researchers created a carbon map of Alberta so they could zoom in on farms’ soil carbon content

A developing carbon offset program is designed to encourage and incentivize regenerative farming without forcing producers to fit a cookie-cutter protocol. “To try to standardize something that is fundamentally adaptive and site specific, and also based on a lot of innovation, it’s going to put a cap on the innovation that can happen,” said Kimberly
Patrick Darcy, a seaweed harvester, heaves a sack full of harvested Dillisk seaweed (palmaria palmata) to carry on his back in the County Clare village of Quilty, Ireland.
News

Ireland looks to seaweed in quest to curb methane from cows

While there’s lots of interest in the method, it’s years away from mass production

By ,
Athenry, Ireland | Reuters –– Scientists are combing Ireland’s west coast for seaweed to feed to cattle and sheep after research showed it could stop them breathing out so much climate-warming methane. The project, co-ordinated by a state agriculture body, is tapping into the country’s growing seaweed harvesting industry, which is seeking new markets as
File photo outside Cargill’s beef slaughter and packing plant at High River, Alta. on May 6, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Todd Korol)
Beef cattle, Livestock

Cargill beef plant workers to vote on new negotiated offer

High River workers otherwise headed for strike or lockout Monday

By ,
Workers at Cargill’s major beef slaughter and packing plant in Alberta will vote this week on a new offer which it’s hoped will avert a strike or lockout, both due to start Monday. The new offer follows a “marathon” of negotiations Tuesday between Cargill representatives and the bargaining committee for United Food and Commercial Workers
A restoration company vehicle sits in a flooded field at Abbotsford, B.C. on Nov. 30, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier)
Weather

British Columbia braces for more heavy rain

By ,
Ottawa | Reuters — British Columbia is facing more heavy rains as the province tries to recover from massive floods and mudslides, Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth told reporters on Tuesday. Farnworth said crews were working to shore up dikes and dams, adding some roads would be closed protectively. Flooding over Nov. 14-16 in Canada’s
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is shown maps by Abbottsford, B.C. Mayor Henry Braun during a visit to the city on Nov. 26, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier)
Weather

B.C. extends fuel restrictions following flooding

Agricultural and farm-use vehicles exempted as 'essential'

By ,
Reuters — Government officials in British Columbia on Monday extended restrictions on the use of fuel by residents, saying it was needed for emergency vehicles as the region recovers from devastating floods. The order, first issued on Nov. 19, limits vehicles deemed “non-essential” by the government to 30 litres of gasoline or diesel fuel per
File photo outside Cargill’s beef slaughter and packing plant at High River, Alta. on May 6, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Todd Korol)
Beef cattle, Livestock

Cargill serves lockout notice on High River workers

Company 'willing to keep meeting' after offer rejected

By ,
Updated — Whether in a strike or a lockout, workers at one of Canada’s biggest beef slaughter plants took another step toward the picket line this week by voting to reject the company’s latest contract offer. A vote conducted Tuesday and Wednesday by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 401 went to the

AgCanadaTV

AgCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for April 10, 2026

Sponsored by:
More Videos →

Latest Market News

More Market News →