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June bugs are an important food source for many other insects.
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Comment: June bugs. The ‘crouton of the sky’

Widely thought a pest, these creatures deserve a second look

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Many people grit their teeth in anticipation of the arrival of June bugs. You might already have had your first run-in with one. Perhaps you heard one clumsily bounce off your window? Maybe you saw one loop around the porch light? Possibly, you felt one tangle its six sticky legs into your hair? June bugs,
“Maybe we don’t want a system that requires $300 million of money going into charitable food banks in order to be resilient to the next shock.” – Evan Fraser.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Is food ok?

Widely diverging views on the pandemic’s impact on food supply are a pickle for the casual observer. What lessons can we learn?

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It’s a jarring read on a morning scroll through Twitter: “Plant all the food you can… we’re headed this season and next several into some massively different circumstances for food availability.” Around Manitoba, early-planted crops are sprouting. In grocery stores, prices feel a little higher but the shelves are full. Is doom really coming, as
Livestock, News

UN bodies set up panel on animal disease risks

The ‘One Health’ panel will advise on plans to curb zoonotic infections

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and three other international bodies have formed a team of experts to help develop a global plan to prevent the spread of diseases from animals to humans, the WHO said May 20. The One Health High-Level Expert Panel was an initiative launched by France and Germany late last year, and
Walmart Canada will be the first retailer in Canada to offer on-pack certified sustainable claims on a line of beef products.
Beef cattle, News

Walmart to add sustainable beef label

Packages of Walmart Canada beef patties will sport a sustainability claim from the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

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Canadians buying their groceries at Walmart will be getting more familiar with certified sustainable beef. On May 10, Walmart Canada announced that beef patties from the Your Fresh Market brand will add an on-package product claim based on standards from the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB). The brand will now feature the CRSB’s “mass
(Exceldor video screengrab via YouTube)
Livestock

Quebec names mediator in Exceldor poultry strike

Major chicken plant's workers off job since May 23

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The Quebec government has brought in a mediator to try to restart labour talks that stalled ahead of a strike at one of the province’s biggest poultry plants. Provincial Labour Minister Jean Boulet on Friday named Helene Poulin as a special mediator on the labour dispute at the Exceldor poultry plant at Saint-Anselme, about 30
Video screengrab featuring an office at the JBS beef plant at Brooks, Alta. (JBS video via YouTube)
Livestock, Other

JBS Canada plant up and running after cyberattack

Brooks beef plant has 'resumed production'

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Meat packer JBS’s major beef slaughter plant in Alberta went back to work Tuesday following a cyberattack reported to have downed several of the company’s operations in North America and Australia. JBS USA, the unit overseeing the Brazilian firm’s Canadian operations, and JBS-owned chicken unit Pilgrim’s Pride both reported “significant progress in resolving the cyberattack
File photo of a container vessel being unloaded at a U.K. port. (Sterling750/iStock/Getty Images)
Markets

Trans-Pacific trade partners agree for U.K. to start joining process

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Tokyo | Reuters — Member nations of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on Wednesday officially agreed to allow the United Kingdom to start the process of joining the pact, Japan’s economy minister said. Japanese Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told reporters he welcomed the start of Britain’s joining process after hosting an
Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: Farmers, workers deserve better than Switch

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The company tasked with managing coronavirus tests for travellers entering Canada continues to cause headaches for farmers and the international workers they employ. Switch Health is managing the tests being given to travellers pre- and post-arrival. Over one year into the pandemic, it is reasonable to expect processes like this to be effectively managed. That
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Livestock

Feather sector’s on-farm upgrade program underway

Applications now being accepted for funding

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The federal free trade compensation program to help Canada’s poultry and egg producers pay for on-farm upgrades, renovations and improvements is now taking applications. The $646.8 million, 10-year Poultry and Egg On-Farm Investment Program (PEFIP) is now formally underway, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced Monday. Each eligible Canadian producer is entitled to an amount proportional
Living in the shadow of COVID for so long, restaurants offer the perfect escape for when Canadians feel safer to go out again.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Incentivizing the cautious

Getting customers back into restaurants will be no small challenge in the wake of a pandemic

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As we inch towards a more normalized economy, the focus will now be on how we can make people feel more comfortable about going out and about again. Our economy needs it, our foodservice industry desperately needs it, but it is not going to be easy. In a recent survey, conducted in mid-May by the

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