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Wana Brands’ lines of edibles available in the Canadian market include Indiva and Wana gummies, Bhang chocolate and Slow Ride baked goods, among others. The company is also developing cannabis-infused sugar and salt. (Screengrab from Indiva.com)
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Canopy eyes U.S. expansion via weed gummies maker

Ontario firm to pay US$297.5 million for Wana Brands

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Reuters — Canada’s Canopy Growth Corp. said on Thursday it would buy weed gummies maker Wana Brands for US$297.5 million, as the world’s biggest pot producer looks to expand in the U.S. cannabis market. Demand for pot edibles such as gummies has risen during the pandemic, as people stuck at home turn to cannabis-related products
File photo of the Port of Montreal. (Guy Banville/iStock/Getty Images)
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Canada concerned about supply chain issues, watching ports ‘closely’

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Reuters –– Canada is concerned about the challenges facing global supply chains and is watching the country’s ports very closely, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. Freeland, speaking to reporters in Washington after meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said she was broadly optimistic about the strength of Canada’s economic recovery
“We’re 20 years plus, here in Canada with hemp, but it almost seems like we’re brand new again.” – Jeff Kostiuk, Hemp International.
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Hemp development hits stride as new markets open up

New uses mean a new spectrum of genetic traits for hemp breeders to tailor for. What does that mean in an industry where variety development has been grain focused?

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Canada has taken on a leading role in industrial hemp production since the crop was legalized in 1998. Initially it was grain production that took off, with food products like hemp hearts. Other possible uses include fibre production — particularly for novel products that don’t require highly refined fibres — and nutraceuticals like cannabidiol, which
File photo from CNH-owned FPT Industrial’s Bourbon-Lancy engine manufacturing plant in eastern France. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)
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CNH to temporarily shut several plants in Europe

Eight-day shutdown due to supply disruptions

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Reuters — Italian-American vehicle maker CNH Industrial said Wednesday it will temporarily shut several of its European agricultural, commercial vehicle and powertrain manufacturing facilities due to the disruptions of procurement of components, including semiconductors. The maker of farm machinery, Iveco commercial vehicles, construction equipment and powertrains plans to shut the concerned plants for eight working
ICE January 2022 canola (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola still rangebound

Selling pressure seen from U.S. soy

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MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts held rangebound during the week ended Wednesday, climbing to their strongest levels in two months at one point before running into resistance and retreating to trade well off those highs. “We’re still stuck in a trading range,” said Keith Ferley of RBC Dominion Securities in Winnipeg. Activity in outside
CBOT December 2021 corn (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
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U.S. grains: Corn, soy futures fall on big grain stocks, export pace

CBOT wheat falls on profit-taking

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures dipped to a four-week low on Wednesday as the grain markets continued to feel pressure from higher than expected forecasts of U.S. supplies, traders said. Soybean futures fell further, a day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projected U.S. soybean and corn ending stocks were above the
A project aims to create alfalfa management tools after creating a database tying management to crop performance.
Forages, News

National effort underway to level the playing field for alfalfa

Data-driven project aims to boost the bottom line of producers — and reverse slide in forage acres

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Glacier FarmMedia – A new initiative designed to improve alfalfa producers’ access to precision management tools could boost the crop’s popularity and increase production, industry officials say. Data collection has started for two new alfalfa artificial intelligence (AI) decision management tools across Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Manitoba. The project aims to create the database
Screengrab from a Wheelman autosteer installation video. (HandsFreeFarm.com)
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Kubota to buy autosteer maker AgJunction

All-cash deal worth about $91 million

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Autosteer and ag equipment guidance system maker AgJunction is poised to sell itself to farm equipment maker Kubota Corp. in a $91 million all-cash deal. Publicly-traded AgJunction, which is registered in Calgary but based at Scottsdale, Ariz., said Thursday its board has unanimously approved Kubota’s 75-cents-per-share proposal and recommended shareholders vote in favour. AgJunction would
Farmers arrive with blankets and mattresses for others at the site of a protest against farm laws at Ghaziabad, India on Jan. 29, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)
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Son of India government minister arrested, accused of killing farmers

Junior home minister's son was 'not co-operating' in probe

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Lucknow | Reuters — Ashish Mishra, son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra Teni, has been arrested on accusations he ran over and killed four protesting farmers last week, a senior police official said. The farmers, killed on Oct. 3 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, were part of India’s longest-running agricultural protest, opposing

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