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Producers from throughout the Prairies and Ontario made the trip to Brandon’s Keystone Centre for Ag Ex in late October.

Cattle numbers up at Manitoba Ag Ex

More cattle and new sheep-based events dominated the Ag Ex highlights this year

By Alexis Stockford November 14, 2022

Brandon’s Ag Ex is on the comeback trail after weathering COVID-19, judging by the number of cattle drawn to the Keystone Centre grounds in late October. Mark Humphries, general manager with the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba, said cattle show entries were more than double those of 2021. About 430 cattle took to the ring Oct.

China to step up investment in rural infrastructure

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News October 25, 2022

Beijing | Reuters – China will accelerate investment in rural infrastructure to improve its ability to ensure food supply while also stabilizing the economy, according to a plan published by the agriculture ministry on Tuesday. The plan, backed by eight ministries and government agencies, comes amid slowing growth in the world’s second-biggest economy, due to

(Sollio Co-operative Group video screengrab via YouTube)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Pork packer Olymel laying off dozens of managers

Market unpredictability, 'growth challenges' cited

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 19, 2022

Major Canadian pork and poultry packer Olymel has laid off 57 people from its management ranks and eliminated another 120 administrative positions, citing the company’s current “market context and growth challenges.” Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec-based Sollio Cooperative Group, said Tuesday its affected employees were notified Monday and have received their layoff notices.

Fewer and larger dealerships aren’t necessarily in the best interests of farmers, some equipment insiders say.

News

Equipment dealer consolidation raises cost to farmers

Wave of consolidation began in 1980s, accelerated dramatically in recent years

By Bianca Flowers September 14, 2022

Reuters – More farm equipment dealers are going out of business, leaving a handful of companies in control of a large swathe of the market and with greater ability to set prices for selling and repairing equipment, say farmers, equipment dealers and analysts. Buyouts of local mom-and-pop dealers have reduced farmers’ options for buying machinery

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Everybody wants to work

By Gord Gilmour August 25, 2022

Employers — including many agricultural employers — seem to have fallen for the trope that ‘nobody wants to work anymore.’ It’s a handy way to back away from any personal responsibility for the industry’s labour woes and one that conveniently avoids looking in the mirror for the source of the problem. We’ll start by looking

Aerial applicator Calvin Murray says finding workers for his business  is a nightmare.

News

Farmers say no one wants to work. Experts say that’s not the case

Producers are struggling to find workers -- and so is everyone else

By Geralyn Wichers, James Snell August 25, 2022

Aerial field sprayers are the fighter pilots of industry, swooping low and fast while dropping chemical armaments over fields. They’re used to avoiding obstacles including power lines, trees, buildings and vehicles. But some are facing a new challenge — getting chemical delivered to the aircraft. Calvin Murray, founder of Early Bird Air near Strathmore, Alta.,

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)

Crops, Other, Weather

Acute food insecurity now touching 345 million worldwide

By GFM Network News August 24, 2022

Baghdad | Reuters — The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, Corinne Fleischer, the WFP’s regional

Editorial, Opinion

Editor’s Take: A return to normalcy

By Gord Gilmour July 15, 2022

What a long, strange trip it’s been, to quote the old song. Back in March 2020, most of us were probably expecting a brief interruption — a few weeks at most — to our lives. Needless to say, that’s not how it played out. It’s been more than two years of cancellations, delays and shelved

File photo of a rapeseed field in southern China’s Yunnan province. (YuenWu/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

USDA attaché alters call on China’s ending stocks

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm July 9, 2022

MarketsFarm — Ahead of the July world supply and demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), due out Tuesday, the department’s attaché in Beijing put forth its forecast changes. The attaché lowered ending stocks for China’s new-crop soybeans and rapeseed, while it increased the carryover for new-crop corn and wheat, in reports released

The World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 28, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: WTO steps back from the brink

But repairing long-standing problems still requires solid efforts

By Markus Wagner, Weihuan Zhou July 6, 2022

After decades of conflict that has neutered its work, the World Trade Organization looks to be back in business. Its highest decision-making body – a conference of ministers from the organization’s 164 member nations – has just met for the first time since 2017. None of what the ministerial conference (dubbed MC12 due to being

Daily Network News

Trump mulls ending some trade ties with China, including in relation to cooking oil

Pulse Weekly: Yields coming into focus

U.S. livestock: Cattle at fresh highs, hogs weaken

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