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For Canadian grocers, recent cauliflower woes should serve as a cautionary tale on buyers’ hypersensitivity to price.

Cauliflower hysteria offers lessons for Canadian consumers

Food inflation is hammering consumers, but there are ways to reduce price pressure

By Sylvain Charlebois February 16, 2016

Food inflation is top of mind for Canadian consumers, with rampant claims about produce being grossly overpriced. And the latest consumer price index (CPI) report won’t calm Canadian shoppers any time soon, since food inflation stands at 4.1 per cent. That’s a significant contrast to the -0.4 per cent in food inflation reported in the

Opinion

Lower Grain Price And Fuel Prices Needed

By John Kemp October 13, 2011

Sharp declines in prices for grains and gasoline will be the most effective stimulus for renewed growth, by easing the squeeze on household finances across North America and Western Europe, but only if price cuts can be sustained. Relative declines in prices for food, clothing and fuel have been one of the big drivers of

Hogs, Livestock

China’s Costly Pigs Irk Consumers, Help Producers

July 21, 2011

The long, red-brick structures in this village on the outskirts of Beijing contain some of this year’s fastest-appreciating Chinese assets: pigs. Their owner Ma Shihong is in no rush to sell. Her fleshy, pale-downed porkers are worth 70 per cent more than last year on the market, with live pig prices, and their girth, growing

News, Pulses

Spoiled Beans Highlight Brazil’s Inflation Challenge

By Peter Murphy January 27, 2011

One bad harvest of beans in Brazil is causing massive headaches for new President Dilma Rousseff and showing just how difficult it is for policy-makers worldwide to combat a recent jump in food inflation. The retail price of beans – a staple that many Brazilians consume in virtually every meal – went up more than

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

Food Bills Limit Decline In Consumer Prices: StatsCan

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 22, 2009

Still-rising food prices all across Canada helped limit a decline in consumer prices last month compared to September 2008, Statistics Canada reports. The federal statistics agency Oct. 16 said that the primary upward pressure on its September 2009 consumer price index (CPI) came from food prices, which rose 2.8 per cent in the previous 12

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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Cauliflower hysteria offers lessons for Canadian consumers

Lower Grain Price And Fuel Prices Needed

China’s Costly Pigs Irk Consumers, Help Producers

Spoiled Beans Highlight Brazil’s Inflation Challenge

Food Bills Limit Decline In Consumer Prices: StatsCan

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