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Crops, Pulses

U.S. firm partners with James Cameron’s Prairie pulse processor

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CNS Canada — Saskatchewan pulse processing company Verdient Foods has entered into a joint venture agreement with U.S. company Ingredion to expand operations. The organic pea protein fractionation facility at Vanscoy, about 20 km southwest of Saskatoon, has been running since last year and the new agreement will see it expand operations to include more
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Crops

Assure herbicide’s active ingredient under new ownership

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Now being put to work in Enlist corn, the active ingredient in Assure II herbicide has a new owner. California-based American Vanguard Corp., the owner of ag chemical producer Amvac Chemical, announced Thursday it has bought the quizalofop-p-ethyl (QPE) product line of herbicides from DowDuPont’s ag division, Corteva Agriscience, for an undisclosed sum. A Group
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Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Eyes on India as North America’s prices firm

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CNS Canada — From where Prairie pulse market analysts sit, India’s politics and current weather situation remain important to watch. India’s national election will be called in the next three to five months. “There’s so many hundreds of thousands of farmers in India and they have political clout,” said Allan Johnston of Johnston Grains at
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Beautiful vegetable platters for the holidays

Add a delicious, attractive and healthy option to your holiday season fare

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Happy holidays! If your holiday season is like ours, food will be a common theme in your festivities. And rightly so. Sharing good food with loved ones is a way of celebrating our good fortune and passing on our traditions, culture, religion and family rituals. In our family, big, beautiful vegetable platters have become part
With in five Canadians restricting meat in their diet, odds are that at least one person in your social group or family is a vegan or vegetarian.
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Comment: Flexitarianism on the menu

A large and growing group of Canadians are becoming ‘part-time vegetarians’

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Restaurants are struggling to get a good handle on how consumers are rapidly shifting away from animal protein. According to a recent study by Dalhousie University, nearly one in five Canadians have decided to either reduce the amount of meat they consume or have outright eliminated it from their diets. Add the fact that 63
Murad Al-Katib, of AGT Food and Ingredients, told the Grain World conference Canada will be a world leader in plant-based protein.
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Canada will lead world in plant protein

Pulse executive Murad Al-Katib is predicting great things for western Canadian agriculture in the coming years

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Murad Al-Katib believes there are tremendous opportunities for Canadian agriculture on the world stage. The president and CEO of Regina-based AGT Food and Ingredients delivered this message Nov. 14 as the keynote speaker at the 2018 edition of the Grain World conference in Winnipeg. “When I was a kid I used to say we are
Canola south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 3, 2017. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

Tighter StatsCan canola crop won’t affect market, analysts say

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CNS Canada — Canada’s canola production has been revised lower in the latest data from Statistics Canada’s Production of Principal Field Crops report, issued Thursday. However, two observers agree the final numbers won’t have much effect on markets. “It’s not a report that’s going to allow canola to trade tremendously strong. It might trade a

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