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Comment: Beware of ‘shelflation’

Compromised supply chains are increasing waste and costs

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By now, you may have heard of a phenomenon called shrinkflation. Many companies will reduce quantities without changing the price by adjusting their packaging strategy. It’s been going on for years. It is the illusion of buying the same amount of product when it has in fact shrunk. But when supply chains aren’t working optimally,
A customer dines at a Burger King outlet in Shanghai on June 27, 2005. (File photo: Reuters/Ming Ming)
Livestock, Markets

Tim Hortons, Burger King parent to hike prices

BK pulling Whopper off discount menu

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Reuters — Burger King parent Restaurant Brands International said on Tuesday that it stripped its most famous sandwich, the Whopper, from discount menus and will raise menu prices again this year as to offset higher costs. U.S.-listed shares of the company rose more than three per cent after it topped results estimates for the fourth
File photo of chicks on a genetic map of a chicken. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock

Second Nova Scotia poultry operation hit with avian flu

U.S. also books outbreaks in two states

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A second farm in western Nova Scotia has been hit with highly pathogenic avian influenza in commercial birds, further expanding containment measures in that province. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday it confirmed high-path H5N1 on Wednesday last week in birds at a mixed farm in the area, where operations include poultry and poultry
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ALUS and corporate partners launch Lake Winnipeg project

Project will help landowners identify and address water risks

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A new consortium of industry and environmental not-for-profits is spearheading a new approach to water stewardship in the Lake Winnipeg basin. The Lake Winnipeg Water Basin Stewardship Project is a “more formalized approach to on-farm water stewardship,” according to Mike Nemeth, a senior sustainability adviser with fertilizer company Nutrien. “The project is bringing together farmers,
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Sacrebleu! French brewers use algae to make blue beer

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Reuters – A French brewer has started using algae with a naturally occurring pigment to turn their beer blue. The beer, with the brand name “Line,” is the result of a tie-up between a firm that wants to popularize the algae as a dietary supplement, and a nearby craft brewery that was looking for a
A Brandon-based company has committed $25,000 to the multi-million-dollar project.
News

Assiniboine Community College ag hub reels in more funds

The college has announced another $25,000 private donation for the incoming Prairie Innovation Centre

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The Prairie Innovation Centre, Assiniboine Community College’s (ACC’s) future home of ag programming, has added D&B Sprinklers to its list of private backers. The Brandon-based company has committed $25,000 to the multimillion-dollar project, the college announced Feb. 2. Why it matters: Post-secondary ag education is slated for a major expansion in western Manitoba with the incoming Assiniboine Community
File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
Markets

U.S. urges Canada to use federal powers to ease border protest disruption

Disruptions force automakers to reduce operations

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Windsor/Washington | Reuters — Canada should use federal powers to ease the growing economic disruption caused by the blockage of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route by protesters opposed to coronavirus mandates, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Thursday. The closure of the Ambassador Bridge, North America’s busiest international land border crossing and a vital
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Markets

China blocks Lithuanian beef, dairy, beer as Taiwan row grows

Canada seeks to join EU trade case against China

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Beijing/Vilnius | Reuters — China suspended imports of beef, dairy and beer from Lithuania this week, Lithuania’s veterinary control agency said on Thursday, amid a growing trade dispute over the Baltic nation’s relations with Taiwan. China’s General Administration of Customs had informed the country it was halting the exports due to “lack of documentation,” the
Apples-to-apples comparisons sustainability program goal
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Apples-to-apples comparisons sustainability program goal

CASI project aims to show how Canadian farmers stack up globally

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A program to make it easy to compare Canadian sustainability programs against international ones will kick off by comparing Canadian beef sustainability standards against an international carbon certification. “We want to avoid duplication,” said Mary Robinson, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA), which leads the project. “We all go through these different qualifying,
Protestors’ vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, on Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
Markets

More government action likely as border blockades hit trade

Manitoba's main crossing now also blocked

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Reuters — The shutdown of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route is knocking out automakers’ operations as the business impact from the two-week-old protests against Canada’s pandemic measures ramp up pressure on authorities to quell the demonstrations. The protests started as a “Freedom Convoy” occupying downtown Ottawa, opposing a vaccinate-or-quarantine mandate for cross-border truckers mirrored by

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