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Mars Food tells customers to go easy on the pasta sauce

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 15, 2016

London | Reuters –– Mars Food plans to tell customers to eat some of its Dolmio pasta sauces and macaroni cheese only once a week to maintain a balanced diet because of the products’ high levels of salt, sugar or fat. The scheme is part of a larger initiative by the privately owned U.S. food

Crops, Markets

Post-CWB review flags grain trade ‘inefficiency’

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 13, 2016

WITHDRAWN, April 15, 2016: A historian’s review of the Prairie grain trade, commissioned by supporters of the former single marketing desk for wheat and barley, suggests history is repeating itself at grain growers’ expense — but the data on which the review is based is now being questioned. The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance on Wednesday released a

Crops

CP scraps plans to buy Norfolk Southern

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 11, 2016

Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway said on Monday it had scrapped efforts to buy Norfolk Southern, almost six months after it launched its unsolicited US$28 billion bid for the fourth-largest U.S. railroad operator. The announcement comes days after the U.S. Justice Department urged the Surface Transportation Board to reject a voting trust arrangement CP had

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U.S. Justice Dept. urges rejection of CP voting trust

By GFM Network News April 9, 2016

Reuters — The U.S. Justice Department on Friday urged a regulator to reject a voting trust Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) has proposed as part of its takeover bid for U.S. railway Norfolk Southern, saying it could hurt competition and would violate rules. In mid-November, CP disclosed a $28 billion offer for the Virginia-based company, which

Beef cattle, Crops, Markets

Cargill books higher profits, warns of tough markets

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume April 7, 2016

Reuters — U.S. agricultural commodities trader Cargill on Thursday reported a rise in third-quarter profit on stronger results in food ingredients and grain handling, but warned about headwinds from oversupplied grain markets and low commodity prices. The privately-held company is exiting lower-margin operations, including its U.S. pork business, and expanding deeper into food ingredients and

Crops, Markets

Glencore sells 40 per cent of agribusiness to CPP

By Dmitry Zhdannikov, GFM Network News April 6, 2016

London | Reuters –– Commodity miner and trader Glencore has agreed to sell 40 per cent of its agricultural unit to Canada’s state pension fund for US$2.5 billion, the company’s latest step to cut debt and soothe investor concerns about the impact of weak commodity prices. The sale values the agricultural unit as a whole

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CPP reported in talks for stake in Glencore agribusiness

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 5, 2016

Reuters — Commodity trading and mining firm Glencore is in advanced talks to sell a stake in its agricultural business to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The CPPIB would take a stake of up to 40 per cent, valuing the business at

Outstanding young farmers Jason and Laura Kehler received their plaque from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Deputy Minister Dori Gingera-Beauchemin.

Crops, Local news

Jason and Laura Kehler named Manitoba’s Outstanding Young Farmers

The couple will compete for the national title later this year in Niagara Falls

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 11, 2016

Carman-area farmers Jason and Laura Kehler will represent Manitoba at the Canadian Outstanding Young Farmers finals in Niagara Falls in late November. The couple, was selected from several nominees at the provincial event in Winnipeg. The Kehlers operate Kehler Farms Ltd., a 5,600-acre operation producing potatoes, seed soybeans, corn, canola, oats, wheat, soybeans and edible

Crops, Markets

Oats’ buyers, sellers far apart on price

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 10, 2016

CNS Canada — Farmers with oats to sell and end-users willing to buy them are far apart in terms of price right now, limiting how much business is actually taking place. Major U.S. customers are well covered for the time being, “with enough to last for a few months worth of milling,” said Ryan McKnight

Crops

Transport review urges scrapping railway grain revenue cap

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel February 25, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — Ottawa should phase out over seven years its cap on the amount of revenue railways can earn transporting grain, a study for the Canadian government recommended Thursday, a move long urged by railways and opposed by farmers and grain handlers. A review of Canadian transportation laws, aimed at modernizing the system,

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

Oats

Mars Food tells customers to go easy on the pasta sauce

Post-CWB review flags grain trade ‘inefficiency’

CP scraps plans to buy Norfolk Southern

U.S. Justice Dept. urges rejection of CP voting trust

Cargill books higher profits, warns of tough markets

Glencore sells 40 per cent of agribusiness to CPP

CPP reported in talks for stake in Glencore agribusiness

Jason and Laura Kehler named Manitoba’s Outstanding Young Farmers

Oats’ buyers, sellers far apart on price

Transport review urges scrapping railway grain revenue cap

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