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Doing a better job at supporting people trying to move to a plant-based diet could be an effective approach for government policy.

Comment: How plant-based diets could help prevent the next COVID-19

By Kurtis Boyer July 14, 2021

[UPDATED: July 14, 2021] Viruses like COVID-19, SARS, swine flu and avian flu all have something in common: They all come from animals, described by scientists as zoonotic diseases. Yet, these diseases do not really “come from animals.” After all, it is not like animals conspire against humans, throwing COVID-19 over the backyard fence. When

The agriculture industry must ensure that all international workers know that they have a right to get a COVID-19 vaccine and how they can access the distribution process.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Farmers support worker vaccination

Doing everything we can to protect these essential workers is the right thing to do

By Paul Gregory July 13, 2021

Despite some reports, producers in Manitoba are not blocking international workers from getting vaccinated. We value them and the contributions they make to our farms and communities. It is an understatement to suggest that keeping international workers healthy and safe is critical to the success of Manitoba’s agricultural industry. As a beekeeper, I rely on

CME August 2021 lean hogs (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (pink, brown and dark red lines). (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise as pork production estimates cut

Feeder cattle down on rising grain values

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek July 13, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures jumped on Monday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture reduced its domestic pork production estimates for this year and next year. The USDA cut its production estimates because of reduced expectations for commercial hog slaughtering in the second half of the year, according to a

News

‘Free meat for a year’ offered in JBS U.S. vaccine sweepstakes

By Reuters July 12, 2021

Want free meat for a year? Get a COVID-19 shot. Meat packer JBS SA will give away beef, pork and chicken for the next year to 50 U.S. families that participate in company-sponsored vaccination clinics over the coming weeks. The Brazilian company’s arm in the United States and Pilgrim’s Pride, a U.S. chicken company mostly

U.S. President Joe Biden tours a manufacturing lab at McHenry County College during a visit to northwest Chicago suburb Crystal Lake on July 7, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)

Markets

Biden seeks to lift limits on U.S. farmer dealings with tractor makers, packers

Executive order to address corporate 'abuses of power'

By GFM Network News July 7, 2021

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden wants to give that country’s farmers more power in negotiating the sale of livestock to big processors and in deciding who repairs their tractors, the White House said on Tuesday. The executive order, expected within days, will also address such competitive issues as delayed airline baggage, cellphone

Baxter Blair, age 13, of McLean, Sask., gets busy grooming as he prepares for his turn in the ring at the 2015 Manitoba Ag Ex.

News

Ag Ex plans to go forward

By Alexis Stockford July 2, 2021

EVENTS | Plans are underway for the first major ag fair since the start of the pandemic, slated for late October, if health orders allow

The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba is planning for an in-person Ag Ex, as long as health orders allow. The Brandon agricultural fair (one of three typically held annually by the exhibition) would be the first time such a large-scale, in-person agricultural event returns to the province since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Planning is

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: True leadership on display in Morden

By Gord Gilmour July 2, 2021

Over the past few decades, there’s been a decided decline in leadership throughout the political spectrum. Leadership once meant exactly that — leading. These days however, it’s come to mean watching public opinion polls and blowing with the wind, or triangulating amongst special-interest groups. In both cases, the goal appears to be power for the

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: A few bad apples

By Gord Gilmour June 24, 2021

Years back, I sat in a first-year university economics class where the guest lecturer insisted that the concept of a ‘labour shortage’ didn’t really exist in a market economy. You had, he explained, a few different options, including two major ones. You could invest in technology that improved productivity. Or you could sweeten your offer

News, Other

Advocacy group concerned TFWs not getting vaccine support

Province has received isolated reports of unsupportive employers, says vaccine medical lead

By Geralyn Wichers June 24, 2021

A coalition of organizations says it’s concerned many temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Manitoba haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 despite their increased risk. “I don’t know where and how to ask for it,” says a quote attributed to an international farm worker in Manitoba in a news release from Healthcare For All Manitoba. “My employer

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

Markets

Canada to lift more border restrictions in weeks to come, Trudeau says

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 24, 2021

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will further relax border restrictions in the weeks to come as long as the science supports such a move, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday, suggesting Ottawa would move more quickly than initially announced. Trudeau, under pressure to allow non-essential travel from the U.S., was more categorical than he had

Daily Network News

Canola industry pumped about 45Z clean fuel ruling in U.S.

U.S. grains: Chicago corn, soy prices recover on updated biofuel guidance

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on tightening cattle supply

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