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Demand is very strong for several products, including food.
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Comment: The ‘COVID tax’ at the grocery store

Food inflation is a likely ballot box issue this election, but there are policy roots

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The ballot booth question will likely differ depending on what you really care about. But since everyone eats and most try to manage a limited food budget, the most important electoral issue will likely be inflation. Or at least it should be. Everything is costing more, including food. And the worst is yet to come,
Marie-Claude Bibeau, Dave Epp, Yves Perron and Alistair MacGregor laid out their parties’ positions in an agriculture leaders’ debate on Sept. 9, 2021. (Video screengrab from Canadian Federation of Agriculture via YouTube)

Federal support for farmers focus of ag leaders’ debate

AgriStability, carbon levy exemptions, supply management among topics

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An agricultural debate ahead of the federal election gave representatives from political parties an opportunity to pitch their ideas to producers, resulting in debate over how best to support farmers. Thursday evening’s debate, hosted by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, had plenty of discussion about climate change and how best to support producers in a
GM’s CAMI assembly plant at Ingersoll, Ont. (GM.ca)
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GM to cut North American production, citing chip shortage

Both GM, Ford cutting truck production

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Washington | Reuters — General Motors will reduce production at most North American assembly plants this month because of the ongoing semiconductor chip shortage, hitting its profitable truck and sport utility vehicles, it said Thursday. The largest U.S. automaker will halt production next week at its Fort Wayne plant in Indiana and its Silao plant
Editor’s Take: On vaccine efficacy
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Editor’s Take: On vaccine efficacy

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One of the key metrics that crop protection products are evaluated on is one known as ‘efficacy.’ You’re quite right if you think that’s a $5 word for ‘effectiveness.’ Whether or not a crop protection product does what it says it will do is a critical part of its evaluation by federal regulators. If it
File photo of a roundworm larva. (Dotana/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

Health Canada warns people not to take livestock dewormers

No evidence that drug is effective against COVID-19

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“Concerning reports” of people in Canada seeking out veterinary-grade dewormers for personal use have led Health Canada to formally advise against doing so. News reports in Western Canada in the past week have described increased demand from non-farming consumers for veterinary-grade ivermectin, whether at livestock supply retailers or online. While ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug
A waiter walks among diners at Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn, New York August 12, 2021.
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No sizzle, no steak

Delta variant, beef prices threaten to take the sizzle out of steak houses seen as key recovery indicator

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Reuters – Just as steak houses are recovering from the first wave of COVID shutdowns, the Delta variant threatens to diminish the appetite for a sector seen as a barometer for full economic recovery. While many top steak restaurants found new customers by reinventing themselves during the crisis, the comeback of the US$5-billion U.S. premium
Canada's 44th federal election will be held on Monday, Sept. 20.
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Agriculture recognition election goal

Sectoral leaders say industry will do its best to push its issues onto the agenda

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If agriculture garners attention during the 2021 election campaign, it will likely be as part of a larger discussion as candidates duke it out over climate change, an emerging green economy and post-pandemic recovery. That’s the perception of a number of observers in the province’s agriculture sector who recently spoke to the Co-operator. Why it matters:
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Livestock, Other

U.S. reports world’s first deer with COVID-19

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Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government said Friday it had confirmed the world’s first cases of COVID-19 in deer, expanding the list of animals known to have tested positive for the disease. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported infections of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in wild white-tailed deer in the state of

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