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Denmark’s Royal Unibrew to buy Toronto’s Amsterdam Brewery

Brewer seeks new capacity in North America

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Corrected, July 18 — Copenhagen | Reuters –– Danish brewer and beverage maker Royal Unibrew will acquire Toronto craft brewer Amsterdam Brewery in a deal valued at around 250 million Danish crowns (C$44 million), Royal Unibrew said in a statement on Friday. “The acquisition we are doing today is very important for the future growth
Farmers demanding higher bids from grain dealers could contribute to rising prices at the grocery store.
Crops, News

U.S. farmers look for premium on remaining 2021 crop

Sellers remain stubborn in the U.S., waiting to see what happens

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Reuters – American grain buyers will have to boost prices to pry farmers’ corn and soybeans from their bins as growers are already flush with cash and can afford to wait and see if the market rallies. “I assume we are going to have to bid up throughout the summer,” a grain dealer in Ohio
“This season for wheat is complicated.” – Juan Francisco Arregui, Argentinian farmer.
Markets, News

With world short of wheat, Argentina farmers worry about crop

From weather worries to political whims and lack of inputs, key exporter expected to produce much smaller wheat harvest

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Reuters – Drought is only the beginning of worries for growers like Juan Francisco Arregui in Argentina. The world is relying on more wheat than usual these days to fill a supply crunch of grain needed to make bread and flour. “This season for wheat is complicated,” Arregui told Reuters, as he stood in a
The shift is so incredibly sharp, many vendors can’t agree with grocers on pricing, pushing them to put their business on hold...
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Dear Ottawa, help!

Food prices are climbing at a record pace in Canada and around the world

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It wasn’t a good week if you’re a consumer on a tight budget and that group includes most of us. Consumers are under attack right now, literally. We’ve just learned that Canada’s food inflation rate was at a record 9.7 per cent in May. Everyone is noticing higher food prices, and no section of the
Zaporizhzhia Region, Ukraine, July 5, 2022. Due to the ongoing hostilities, grains are harvested only on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia and part of Polohy districts which constitute one-sixth of the total area of the Zaporizhzhia Region, south-eastern Ukraine.
News

Recovery from grain production shortfalls could take years

Many factors have weighed in to produce tight global grain stocks

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Reuters – Eric Broten had planned to sow about 5,000 acres of corn this year on his farm in North Dakota, but persistent springtime rains limited him to just 3,500 in a state where a quarter or more of the planned corn could remain unsown this year. The difficulty planting corn in the northern United
News

Don’t call it meat if it’s made with plants, France says

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Reuters – France will ban the use of meat names like “steak” and “sausage” on plant-based protein food, according to a decree published June 29, in a bid to avoid confusion over the trendy meat alternatives. France is the first country in the European Union to impose such a restriction. In 2020, EU lawmakers rejected
Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Market value alone is selling nature short, governments told

Economic valuations needed but 'not sufficient,' co-chair says

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Reuters — What is the value of a river? Is it for the nutritional content of the fish it sustains? The economic benefit of the local livelihoods it supports? Or does the river have its own value which humans cannot measure? Such questions may seem removed from the issues the world faces, from deepening climate
A tract of Amazon jungle burns as it is cleared by farmers at Rio Pardo in Brazil's Rondonia state on Sept. 15, 2019.
News

Compensation key to tackling Brazilian deforestation

Dreyfus Brazil CEO says tackling deforestation involves compensating farmers

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Brazil’s chief executive of commodities trader Louis Dreyfus says that if society wants to seriously tackle deforestation, mechanisms are needed to compensate farmers for conserving trees. Murilo Parada told an audience at the World-Agritech South America Summit in Sao Paulo that the development of a carbon market would be key to protect the environment and
Internally displaced Ethiopians queue to receive food aid in the Higlo camp for people displaced by drought, at the town of Gode in Ethiopia’s Somali region on April 26, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)
News

Activists pan G7 pledge to fight global hunger

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sparked fears of hunger and malnutrition

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Activists sharply criticized a pledge by the Group of Seven rich countries on June 28 to commit US$4.5 billion to fight global hunger, saying the sum fell short of what was needed with millions of people on the brink of starvation. The worst drought in decades in parts of Africa and soaring food prices, driven
Op/Ed, Other

Comment: The dangers of big data extend to farming

If agriculture data isn’t protected, a handful of powerful companies will shape food production for their own benefit

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Most internet users are by now aware of the vulnerability of their personal data. When the news broke that tech companies misuse and manipulate our personal data, there was a widespread “techlash” against the corporate giants Facebook, Amazon and Google. The explicit motive for data harvesting is the prediction of consumer wants and needs. And

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