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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

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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
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Biden administration putting up US$2.1 billion to strengthen food system

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Reuters – The Biden administration plans to spend more than US$2.1 billion in funding to shore up weaknesses in the country’s food supply system exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will unveil the new funding, designed to enhance competition in food processing
In 2020, a total of seven workers at two JBS facilities in Colorado and Wisconsin died from COVID-19.
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JBS U.S. units to adopt pandemic response plans after COVID outbreaks

Investigation finds that 269 workers in the U.S. died from outbreaks at packing plants

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Reuters – Subsidiaries of meat processor JBS USA have agreed to implement infectious disease preparedness plans at seven U.S. plants, in the wake of a U.S. congressional report finding that the industry largely failed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among workers. The agreement was announced in late May by the U.S. Occupational Safety and
COVID curbs Chinese soy demand
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COVID curbs Chinese soy demand

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Reuters – Plunging demand for soyoil in China is expected to cut consumption as COVID-19 lockdowns have shuttered restaurants and canteens, according to traders and analysts. China is the world’s top consumer of edible oils, with millions of restaurants guzzling about half of the country’s roughly 17 million tonnes of soyoil. But a two-month lockdown
File photo of grain bins in Saskatchewan. (Chinaface/iStock/Getty Images)
Markets

Over half Canada’s farm revenue now goes to biggest farms, census finds

More women operators, more sustainable practices, more growing under glass

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While it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the number of larger farms by sales in Canada is rising and the number of smaller farms is declining, Canada’s newest ag census also shows larger farm classes now capturing the majority of total ag revenue. Statistics Canada on Wednesday began releasing data from its 2021 Census of Agriculture,
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: The weakest link

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As I sit here, writing this editorial, I’m recovering from the last lingering COVID symptoms. I’m hardly alone in this. One recent study suggested that as many as 50 per cent of Canadians have had an infection now. Based on anecdotal evidence from my circle of friends and family, I’m willing to believe that number,
Food literacy in Canada has increased since the start of the pandemic.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: COVID has changed us, but has it really changed the food industry?

Canada’s food landscape has changed as consumers have gained more food literacy

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The food industry is gathering now at different trade shows and events. It is the first time in two years that it has come together to figure out what consumers are now thinking, believing, hoping and most important, fearing. Trends, flavours, and tastes have changed since March 2020. But after more than two years of
The Bank of Canada has raised rates by half a percentage point and said more increases were coming to fight inflation.
News, Other

Canada inflation surges to 31-year high

Inflation left analyst expectations in the rear-view mirror in March

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Reuters – Canada’s annual inflation rate accelerated faster than expected in March, hitting a 31-year high amid broad price pressures, official data showed April 20, pointing toward another oversized rate hike from the Bank of Canada in June. The headline rate hit 6.7 per cent in March, well above analyst expectations of 6.1 per cent
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Markets, Weather

AgriStability enrolment deadline extended for 2022

Two-month extension in place for fourth year in a row

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The deadline for Canadian farmers to enroll in AgriStability has been extended for two months — making 2022 the fourth year in a row with a enrolment deadline bump for the farm income stabilization program. The enrolment deadline without penalty for the 2022 program year was previously scheduled for this Saturday, April 30, but is
(Greg Berg photo)
Crops, Markets, Weather

StatsCan predicts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2022

Lentil, corn, soy acres are also expected up from 2021, barley down

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MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers intend to seed more acres to wheat and less to canola in 2022, according to the first survey-based estimates from Statistics Canada for the upcoming crop year released Tuesday. Canola area is forecast at 20.9 million acres by the government agency, which would be down by seven per cent from the

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