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Synthetic fertilizers have greatly enhanced crop yields and are rightly credited with helping to feed the world, but their use is not evenly spread around the world.

Comment: Fertilizer crisis shows need for new way

Fertilizer prices are soaring – and that’s an opportunity to promote more sustainable ways of growing crops

By Kathleen Merrigan June 28, 2022

Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices and industry consolidation. The price of synthetic fertilizer has more than doubled since 2021. This crunch is particularly tough on those who grow corn, which accounts for half of U.S. nitrogen fertilizer use. The National Corn Growers Association predicts that its

Markets, News

Brazil’s JBS says China lockdowns won’t affect demand, logistics a concern

By Reuters May 20, 2022

Brazilian meat giant JBS SA played down the effects of COVID-19-related lockdowns in China, saying they would not affect demand for JBS products despite causing logistics concerns, according to management remarks on May 12. During the first quarter, inventories rose in the United States because of logistics issues that also hampered U.S. ports, increasing costs

Markets, News

Bunge says updating select facilities to crush new oilseed covercress

Modified weed can produce fuel oil and act as cover crop

By Karl Plume May 17, 2022

Reuters – Global grains merchant Bunge Ltd. is updating select U.S. crushing facilities to process covercress, a gene-edited version of an annual weed also known as field pennycress, that it says can be used to produce renewable fuel, the company said May 4. Bunge and oil company Chevron Corp. announced a strategic partnership with CoverCress

Koch Fertilizer Canada executives cut the ribbon on their Brandon headquarters May 4, along with Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson (centre).

News

Koch Fertilizer officially opens Brandon HQ

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 16, 2022

Koch Fertilizer Canada cut the ribbon on its new $33-million headquarters in Brandon May 4. The facility, which was planned with office space for 100 employees, expands the company’s presence in the western Manitoba city, where it has operated facilities for the last 55 years, company executives said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The company announced

News

Dunkin’, Beyond Meat face trademark lawsuit on slogan for plant-based sausage sandwich

By Blake Brittain May 11, 2022

Reuters – A Philadelphia company has sued Dunkin’ Brands and Beyond Meat, claiming the companies violated its trademark with their “Great Taste, Plant-Based” slogan for a meatless sausage breakfast sandwich. Vegadelphia Foods said in its lawsuit filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida that it trademarked the slogan “Where Great Taste is

News, Other

Price hikes help McDonald’s beat back inflation, costs from Ukraine war

By Hilary Russ, Uday Sampath Kumar May 10, 2022

Reuters – Menu price hikes and a new loyalty program helped McDonald’s beat estimates for quarterly sales and profit April 28, despite inflationary pressure on consumers, the war in Ukraine and COVID-19 lockdowns in China. Pinched by higher costs for gas, rent and groceries, lower-income customers are starting to buy cheaper or fewer McDonald’s menu

Markets

ADM, Bunge expected to post strong results as Ukraine war ignites demand

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume April 25, 2022

Chicago | Reuters – A string of strong quarterly profits by global agribusinesses Archer-Daniels-Midland Co ADM.N and Bunge Ltd BG.N likely continued in the first quarter despite surging crop costs and global supply chain disruptions triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, analysts said ahead of earnings releases this week. Both companies capitalized on good oilseed

Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: A broken system

Supply chain fragility reveals overall economic fragility of globalization

By Alan Guebert March 30, 2022

One of the most beautiful – and inexplicable – aspects of economics is how its practitioners never seem to be wrong. Indeed, almost every school of economic thought, from John Maynard Keynes’ demand-driven economics on the left to Arthur Laffer’s supply-side economics on the right, is crowded with disciples defending their leader’s theories and just

A woman holds a sign during a protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at Trafalgar Square in London, Mar. 4, 2022.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Playing Russian roulette with food security

Sanctions should hurt the Russian government, not the Russian people

By Sylvain Charlebois March 28, 2022

With war comes economic sanctions. Instead of sending troops to fight the old-fashioned way, wars are fought with money, literally, and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia is no exception. The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, the European Union, Turkey, and a few more countries have sanctioned Russia, in one way or another.

Grunthal artisan Karen Enns stands with items of clothing she made at the One Year One Outfit exhibit on February 25.

Farmit Manitoba, Other

VIDEO: One Year One Outfit Challenge connects people to land, textiles, each other

Knitters, sewers, weavers could only use locally grown materials to construct clothing

By Geralyn Wichers March 14, 2022

A lamb is born prematurely on a Manitoba sheep farm. It weighs only a pound. To survive, the lamb will need round-the-clock care — more care than the farmer has bandwidth to give, so a woman named Nicole takes the tiny critter home. She and her son put a diaper on the lamb and take

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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