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A cow stands near a spot fire fueled by high winds near Canadian, Texas, U.S., March 2, 2024.
International news, News

Texas wildfires destroy grain and cattle

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Chicago | Reuters – Wildfires in the Texas Panhandle destroyed grain in storage bins and likely killed tens of thousands of livestock, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said Feb. 29. One blaze, dubbed the Smokehouse Creek fire, is the largest in Texas history. Grazing lands covered with years of grass that are helped fuel the
A man is seen outside the house damaged by Russian shelling in the Odesa Region, southern Ukraine. Photo: by Nina Liashonok/Ukrinform/Sipa USA
International news, News

What is war fatigue?

If the West is 'tired' of the war in Ukraine, consider the reality of Ukrainians

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In 2023, Ukraine celebrated Christmas for the second time on Dec. 25, instead of Jan. 7, as it was before Russia’s invasion. My friends are divided into two camps. Some planned to celebrate Christmas in a new way, others do not want to change anything. However, this is far from the biggest problem in our lives. As we
Trade irritants are part of doing business, Senate agriculture committee ranking member John Boozman told members of the North American Agricultural Journalists April 24, 2023 on Capitol Hill. 
International news, News

Canada-U.S. ag trade worth billions, deputy ambassador says

Those tasty pork ribs started with hogs raised in Manitoba, fattened in Iowa and processed in Illinois

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Washington, D.C. — Agricultural trade between Canada and the United States is important and valuable to both countries, officials told journalists from both countries April 25. “We literally grow things together to feed communities at home and around the world,” Canada’s deputy ambassador, Arun Alexander, told members of North American Agricultural Journalists during their visit
A farmer drives his tractor near cracked and dry earth at the Marais Breton in Villeneuve-en-Retz, as a historic drought hit France in August.
International news, News

Droughts, Ukraine war push global grain stocks toward worrying decade low

Stocks will be lower than in 2012, the most recent year that saw food riots

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Reuters – The world is heading toward the tightest grain inventories in years despite the resumption of exports from Ukraine, as the shipments are too few and harvests from other major crop producers are smaller than initially expected, according to grain supply and crop forecast data. Poor weather in key agricultural regions from the United
The escalating trade war and lack of a diplomatic solution between the U.S. and China is putting financial strain on farmers.
International news, News, Other

China-U.S. trade spat could mean more financial aid needed by Canadian farmers

AgriStability discussions may need to move up the agenda

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The ramping up of the U.S.-China trade war will put more pressure on the Canadian government to increase its financial assistance to farmers who are already suffering from the early stages of the superpower skirmish. China has announced it will stop buying U.S. agricultural products and it may impose additional tariffs on U.S. farm products
Argentina's grain harvest is sure to boost the South American country's position in global markets.
Grain Markets, International news

Argentina set for bumper wheat crop

Other wheat-growing regions are facing weather woes

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Reuters – Argentine wheat farmers are preparing for a record harvest, even as global rivals see crop yield prospects cut amid floods in the United States, searing heat in Europe and drought in Australia and parts of Canada. The grain bounty in the world’s No. 6 wheat exporter will boost the South American country in
Workers sit on a bed next to ducks at a farm in Jiaxiang county, Shandong province, China.
International news, Livestock

China’s duck farmers cash in as ASF disease slashes pork output

Cost-conscious catering firms are switching to supply schools and factories

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Reuters – On a 30-hectare (74-acre) plot of land in China’s Shandong province poultry hub, more than half a million white-feathered ducks are busy eating, chattering and laying eggs to produce cheap meat for thousands of factory canteens. With birds already packed into around 60 open-sided buildings, farm owner Shenghe Group is expanding further, aiming
The African swine fever virus has reached every province in China.
Hogs, International news

China’s pig farms clean up to beat swine fever

Industry sees improved biosecurity in farms, transport as sales of disinfectants, truck washes soar

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Reuters – A devastating outbreak of African swine fever that has killed millions of pigs in China is changing attitudes in a country where farm hygiene has often been seen as lax by international standards. From farms to feed mills to transport, people involved in the pork industry say biosecurity has been tightened, with sales
Some bulk shipments, including fertilizer, are on hold until flooding on the Mississippi River subsides.
International news, News, Other

Stalled shipments latest blow to U.S. farmers

Transportation woes are the latest headache in a sector plagued by slumping profits

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Farm supplier CHS has dozens of barges, loaded with fertilizer, trapped on the flood-swollen Mississippi River near St. Louis — about 500 miles from the company’s two Minnesota distribution hubs. The barges can’t move — or get crucial nutrients to corn farmers for the spring planting season — because river locks on the main U.S.
Pigcasso, a rescued pig, paints on a canvas at the Farm Sanctuary in Franschhoek, outside Cape Town, South Africa February 21, 2019.
International news, News

Painting sow Pigcasso hogs the limelight

South African swine has carved out a career as a commercially successful painter

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Step aside Francis Bacon. Brandishing a paintbrush in her snout, Pigcasso enthusiastically tosses her head to create bright, bold strokes across a canvas propped up in her sty. The sow was rescued from an abattoir as a piglet and brought to an animal sanctuary in Franschhoek, in South Africa’s Western Cape region in 2016, where

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