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Vegetable oil prices declined to a five-month low from June.
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World food prices fall for second month in July

Prices still remain higher than last year, despite monthly declines

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Reuters – World food prices eased for a second month in a row in July, reflecting declines for cereals, vegetable oils and dairy products, but remained up nearly a third over the past year, the United Nations food agency said Aug. 5. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which tracks international prices
Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editorial: Farm policy for the future

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It’s safe to say that most farmers in Canada don’t really know the history of farm policy developments in this country, and they don’t really care. What they do care about is whether supports will be there for them in their times of need — whether that’s when dealing with this year’s drought, last year’s
That’s the problem with the “industrial mind” in today’s agriculture: It floats along on a rising sea of taxpayer money and unaccounted costs to a place where few profit but everyone pays one way or another.
Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: The actual costs of the ‘industrial mind’

Human ‘cleverness’ can’t outweigh nature, at least not for long

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In an essay in his new book, Hogs Are Up, Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute near Salina, Kansas, and a shrewd observer of U.S. agriculture, revisits a speech he gave in Coon Rapids, Iowa, in August 2009 to mark the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous visit to the Roswell Garst farm. During
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Bunge lifts profit outlook as food and fuel demand for vegetable oil grows

Food and fuel demand for vegetable oil is driving numbers

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U.S. agricultural commodities trader Bunge Ltd. raised its full-year adjusted profit outlook on July 28 after stronger-than-expected food and renewable fuel demand for its vegetable oils drove a 41 per cent jump in quarterly income. Shares jumped three per cent in morning trading after the company projected full-year 2021 adjusted income of at least $8.50
The strawberry field at Grunthal Berries at the beginning of June 2021.
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Fruit farmers call for better insurance safety net

Exiting berry farmer says her experience illustrates a lack of support, forethought from provincial government

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First there was winterkill, then frost damage and finally lab tests confirmed what Colleen Edmunds of Grunthal Berries feared — the majority of her strawberry field was dead. Edmunds was ready to retire, and this was the final straw. “Why keep doing it?” she said. They finished out the raspberry picking season and pulled the
Hemp (seeds shown at left) will soon be blended with peas (shown at right) to create a high-protein flour.
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Manitoba companies join pea-hemp protein project

The project is the 24th project through Canada’s Protein Innovation Supercluster

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Manitoba Harvest, part of Fresh Hemp Foods Ltd., is partnering with a group of companies to develop improved hemp and pea varieties and to create a hemp-pea flour blend. Winkler-based Pulse Genetics will also collaborate on the project. “The advancements will dramatically increase the potential for hemp usage in the growing plant-based protein movement,” Manitoba
Ag in the Classroom builds on pandemic experiences
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Ag in the Classroom builds on pandemic experiences

Ag in the Classroom is taking pandemic lessons to heart as planning gets underway for the return to normal

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Ag in the Classroom Manitoba (AITC-M) is seeing the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, although executive director Sue Clayton says it will still be early 2022 before they return to in-person events. “We wanted to be cautious and make sure that we give schools and the pandemic enough time — to make
Latin American nations say their beef sector shouldn’t bear the responsibility for cleaning up the messes of others.
Markets, News

Latin America to defend beef production at UN food summit

Region fears their agricultural products will be scapegoated by more powerful blocs

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Reuters – Latin American and Caribbean countries, especially big food producers in South America, will join forces to defend the region’s livestock production at a United Nations’ food summit this month amid concerns over the sector’s environmental impact. Paraguay’s farming and livestock minister, Santiago Bertoni, said in a video conference that the main focus was
Russian bread makers plan to raise prices due to higher costs
Markets, News

Russian bread makers plan to raise prices due to higher costs

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Several Russian bread producers have told retail chains they plan to raise prices by seven to 12 per cent from August due to higher production costs and the limited effect of state support, the Kommersant daily reported July 19. Russia, one of the world’s largest wheat exporters, has introduced a series of grain export curbs
Letters, Opinion

Letters: More harm than good

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I am writing in response to an article in the July 8, 2021 issue of your paper titled, ‘How plant-based diets could help prevent the next Covid-19.’ What Mr. Boyer says about reducing contact with animals to prevent zoonotic diseases is true. However, his suggestion that we do this by consuming less meat and more

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