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Comment: Food for non-food purposes

By Deepak Ray June 1, 2022

FOOD SECURITY A shrinking fraction of the world’s major crops goes to feed the hungry

Competition for the world’s important crops — like biofuels, processing ingredients, livestock, meal hydrogenated oils and starches — is sending more of them toward uses other than directly feeding people. A recently published study, of which I was a co-author, found that in 2030, only 29 per cent of the global harvests of 10 major

Beef cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets

U.S. beef price-fixing investigation proposed

By Caroline Stauffer, Leah Douglas, Reuters June 1, 2022

U.S. senators, Elizabeth Warren and Mike Rounds on May 19 introduced a bipartisan resolution asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate beef companies for potential price-fixing. It is the latest effort by politicians to hold meat companies accountable for high food prices, which critics blame in part on U.S. beef production being controlled by

News

Canada inflation creeps higher in April

Central bank under pressure for another interest rate hike

By Dale Smith, Julie Gordon, Nichola Saminather, Steve Scherer June 1, 2022

Canada’s annual inflation rate ticked up again in April, official data showed May 18, exceeding analyst expectations and upping the pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates to keep price expectations in check. Headline inflation hit 6.8 per cent in April, just beating analyst forecasts that the annual rate would stay flat at

Crops

Hepatitis A outbreak linked to organic strawberries

Cases reported in two provinces, three states

By GFM Network News, Reuters May 30, 2022

Washington | Reuters –– Food safety regulators in both Canada and the U.S. are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the U.S. and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in Minnesota and North Dakota, the

Farmit Manitoba

At an impasse: Potholes, floods and detours

Lack of north-south RTAC routes leaves a chunk of southwest and central Manitoba vulnerable to shipping disruptions, businesses say

By Alexis Stockford May 30, 2022

Glenboro and Holland, Man. weren’t like their fellow communities to the east in early May. Heavy precipitation in late April had not made them islands, like some towns along the Red River, which had been isolated by flood water. In fact, the area in central Manitoba was one of the first to see producers hit the field, in

Rep. Glenn 'GT' Thompson speaks to reporters in Washington, D.C. in late April 2022.

Livestock, News

Dairy market access in U.S. crosshairs

Canada says its new TRQ policy is trade-compliant

By Allan Dawson May 27, 2022

The American dairy industry is clamouring for its federal government to slap retaliatory tariffs on Canada for what they say is policy restricting U.S. access to Canada’s dairy market. At issue is Canada’s dairy tariff-rate quota (TRQ) allocation, which was the subject of a CUSMA (Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement) dispute panel last year. TRQ holders are

Livestock, News

Canada concerned as COOL talk builds on Capitol Hill

The U.S. seeks ways to resurrect country-of-origin labelling without sparking another WTO complaint from Canada

By Allan Dawson May 27, 2022

Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. don’t agree on much, but in trade protectionism, there’s common cause. That’s why increasing bipartisan talk on Capitol Hill to resurrect COOL (country-of-origin labelling) for U.S.-sold beef, has Canada’s meat sector on guard. COOL is back in the headlines, seven years after a lengthy World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute

Yara’s fertilizer terminal at Stockton, California. (Sebastian Braum photo, Yara.com)

Crops

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Sanctions cut global fertilizer supply 15 per cent, company says

By Dmitry Zhdannikov, GFM Network News May 27, 2022

Davos, Switzerland | Reuters — Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.’s $10 billion food programme funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilizers and Ukraine’s grain export problems have created an extreme global shock. “The world has realized that food can be a weapon and it

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: That’s really not COOL

By Gord Gilmour May 26, 2022

Our American cousins are like a lot of extended family. We might love them, most days. But sometimes we watch their antics, scratch our heads, and wonder what the heck they’re thinking. And there aren’t a lot of issues being pursued through their political system that make less sense than the perennial push for mandatory

Dairy cattle, Livestock

U.S. seeks another CUSMA dispute panel on Canadian dairy quotas

Canada announced revised policies last week

By GFM Network News, Reuters May 25, 2022

Ottawa | Reuters — The Biden administration is requesting that a second dispute settlement panel be formed under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) to review a trade dispute with Canada over dairy import quotas, it said on Wednesday. The U.S. alleges that Canada’s dairy tariff-rate quota allocations deny eligible U.S. applicants, including retailers, access to Canadian

Daily Network News

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

CBOT Weekly: April supply and demand report a ‘nothing burger’

Canada blocks meats, dairy from Greece over foot-and-mouth disease

Food