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CFIA funded to build up inspection corps against COVID-19

Short spells of disruptions still to be expected at food plants

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Ottawa — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is spending $20 million to hire, train and equip additional staff members to limit disruptions resulting from COVID-19. With meat packers and food processing plants considering extended hours as they adjust to taking extra measures to combat the pandemic, CFIA was in need of a response to
Burnett on Markets: Global grain stocks offer false sense of food security
Crops, Markets

Burnett on Markets: Global grain stocks offer false sense of food security

In event of production shortfall, 60 per cent of available stocks would never be available to market

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The economic parallels from the COVID-19 epidemic are quickly changing from comparisons to the recent financial crisis in 2008-09 to the Great Depression. My parents and grandparents lived through the Depression and it did have many impacts on their everyday lives. The main symbol of the Depression-era mentality was the two enormous chest freezers in
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Crops

‘So far, so good,’ fertilizer sector says

Fertilizer Canada says vast majority of members have sufficient supplies in place or en route

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There shouldn’t be any problems in supplying farmers with fertilizer this spring, says the organization representing manufacturers and distributors. “Our members are set to go,” Fertilizer Canada president and CEO Garth Whyte said in a news release Wednesday. “COVID-19 plans were quickly established at facilities, in conjunction with being declared an essential service, there was
A recent Farm Credit Canada report says land purchases by next-generation producers from producers exiting the industry accounted for many transactions.
News, Other

A closer look at Manitoba farmland values

Eastman region saw the highest percentage increase at 8.2 per cent

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Manitoba’s modest four per cent increase in farmland values in 2019 coincided with a mixed year for farmers. Cereal and canola yields were generally average, with lower yields for soybeans, corn and sunflowers, the Farm Credit Canada (FCC) report says. A lot of potatoes didn’t get harvested due to wet weather, some crops went unharvested, while hay, pasture and feed corn were hurt during
Bayer’s cross symbol hangs in a terminal at Frankfurt International Airport. (Typhoonski/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)
Crops

Proxy advisers split over endorsing Bayer management

Chemical giant to host AGM April 28

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Frankfurt | Reuters — Shareholder advisory groups are divided over whether to endorse the management and directors at German drugs and pesticides company Bayer, according to recommendations submitted by proxy voting firms. Bayer is due to host its annual general meeting on April 28 but the company still faces potentially huge litigation risks stemming from
Fresh snowfall in Winnipeg’s Fort Rouge area on April 8, 2020. (GFM Staff)
Crops, Weather

Cold spring weather expected for Prairies

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MarketsFarm — Temperatures in the Prairie provinces are expected to be colder than average this spring. “There’s no indication that temperatures will be above normal,” said Bruce Burnett, director of markets and weather for MarketsFarm in Winnipeg. Low temperatures will likely cause issues for seeding in areas of the Prairies that have received late-spring snowstorms.
Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek farm beef, lamb and bees near Cartwright.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Small food producers innovate to survive

Creativity, humour and social distancing combine to get food to customers for one meat producer

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Direct-marketing farmers and food producers are finding creative ways to get meals on their customers’ tables and maintain a sense of community. “You guys are all amazing and you convinced us that we will get through this crazy time. Enjoy your food, stay home, stay safe, stay classy,” Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek of Fresh
Migrant workers clean fields in California’s Salinas Valley on March 30, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
Crops

Canadian, U.S. farms face crop losses on foreign worker delays

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Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Mandatory coronavirus quarantines of seasonal foreign workers in Canada could hurt that country’s fruit and vegetable output this year, and travel problems related to the pandemic could also leave U.S. farmers with fewer workers than usual. Foreign labour is critical to farm production in both countries, where domestic workers shun the
Farmer Anil Salunkhe feeds strawberries to a cow during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the Satara district in India’s Maharashtra state on April 1, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Rajendra Jadhav)
Crops, Markets

How COVID-19 is upending global food supply chains

Cows fed strawberries in India, watermelons rot in U.S., okra not reaching Canada

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Satara/Singapore/London | Reuters — In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows. It’s not a treat. They can either feed their crops to animals or let them spoil. And other farmers are doing just that
Cannabis plants at a licensed indoor production facility in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

Ontario drops weed from essentials list

Officials call for further intervention

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Reuters — Ontario’s government on Friday removed cannabis from a list of essential businesses allowed to operate during the lockdown, as part of its efforts to further restrict contact amid a deepening coronavirus crisis. The move comes after health officials projected 80,000 COVID-19 coronavirus cases and about 1,600 deaths by month end under current policies,

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