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Minimal U. S. Food, Drink Price Hikes Seen In 2010

By Brad Dorfman November 26, 2009

The days of big price increases for U. S. food and drinks makers are likely over due to easing ingredient costs and high unemployment levels that weigh on consumer spending, credit rating agency Fitch Ratings said. For food companies, 2010 sales should increase by low single digits, in line with long-term forecasts, Fitch said, noting

News

In Brief… – for Nov. 19, 2009

November 19, 2009

Shorter shipping stretches sought: A private members bill now before Parliament would reduce the maximum transportation time for ruminant livestock from 52 hours to 12 hours and from 36 to eight hours for pigs, poultry and horses. Bill C-468 was tabled by Brossard-La Prairie MP Alexandra Mendes October 28, according to the Canadian Coalition for

News, Pulses

Pulse Paper Proposes Diet For A Healthier Planet

By Lorraine Stevenson November 19, 2009

Give Peas a Chance The case for more pulses in the field and on the plate Obesity afflicts the poor. Greenhouse gases are rising in the atmosphere. The hungry of the world need more food, while the overfed need cures from diet-related diseases. The pulse industry has proposed a solution – Give Peas a Chance.

Country Crossroads

Stop By For Coffee

By Sheila Braun November 12, 2009

When many small rural businesses are closing their doors, Denise Collins is thrilled to be reversing this trend by opening her new business Back Porch Coffeehouse & Store in Linden, Manitoba. She welcomed customers with a smile on Oct. 23, when the store opened in the small village located a few miles west of Landmark.

Country Crossroads

Consumers Don’t Understand What Labels Are Telling Them

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 5, 2009

Canadians are reading food labels but do not always understand what they are telling them, a recent report by the Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition (CCFN) says. A key finding of the council’s report 2009 Tracking Nutrition Trends (TNT): ‘A 20-year History’ is that food product labels continue to be Canadians’ most credible and

News

Mosaic Announces Special Dividend

October 29, 2009

U. S. fertilizer maker Mosaic Co. said on Oct. 26 it plans to return about $580 million to stockholders through a special cash dividend that will be financed using cash on hand. The special dividend of $1.30 per share will be paid on Dec. 3 to stockholders of record as of the close of business

Opinion

Defining “Natural” Is A Tricky Proposition

By Ronald Doering October 29, 2009

Indirect or implied “natural” claims are everywhere already and the industry will continue to get bolder. With a public suffering from chemical paranoia, there is a growing consumer demand for more “natural” products. Growing doubts about the meaning of “organic” and the spotty regulatory efforts to limit the amount of misleading labelling led the food

Livestock

Agribusiness Challenged To Solve World Problems

By Christine Stebbins October 22, 2009

“We cannot go on the way we’re going and we need the food industry to say it first, when an industry doesn’t take these problems face on, it leads to disaster.” – JEFFREY SACHS Private agribusiness companies must lead the drive to sustainable agriculture if the world is going to succeed in winning the fight

Livestock

Locked-Out XL Staff Keep Talking

By Dwayne Klassen October 8, 2009

Talks have been scheduled in an effort to resolve a labour dispute between XL Foods and the company’s unionized members represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1400, an official with the union confirmed Sept. 29. “We have notified officials with XL Foods that the unionized members would like to get back to

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Britain Turns To Imports As Dairy Farmers Quit

By Nigel Hunt October 1, 2009

British dairy farmers have continued an exodus this year which has seen their numbers halved in the last decade and turned the country into a liquid milk importer, an industry leader says. Lyndon Edwards, chairman of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF), said 14 farmers a week were still leaving the industry due

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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