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Canadian Prairie Garden Puree COO Kelly Beaulieu in happier times, showcasing one of the company’s purées.
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Canadian Prairie Garden Puree in receivership

Secured creditors applied for court protection earlier this month

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A groundbreaking Man­itoba vegetable-processing company has been forced into receivership. Secured creditors of Can­adian Prairie Garden Puree Inc. (CPG) were granted a receivership order Mar. 22 by Court of Queen’s Bench in Winnipeg. The accounting firm Meyers Norris Penny has been named receiver and in a court document it detailed secured creditors are owed a
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Costco finds a willing and growing market in Canada

Same-store Canadian sales are up more than in any other country in which Costco operates

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Unless you’re there on a Saturday, constantly trying to avoid collisions with oversized shopping carts, you probably like Costco, even though it will cost you more to shop there as of June. The basic membership fee is going up by $5 to $60, while premium folks will have to pay $120, up from $110. Paying
Health Canada is recommending nutrition label changes.
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New food nutritional label guidelines in the works

The changes are part of a Health Canada strategy to promote healthy eating

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The federal government is serving up changes to its nutrition labelling rules to help consumers make healthier food choices. The changes are part of Health Minister Jane Philpott’s Healthy Eating Strategy, to encourage Canadians to reduce their consumption of salt, sugar and other unhealthy ingredients. The big changes for consumers will be in the nutrition
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Hedge your risks: go underground

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The dust is settling in the wake of last week’s U.S. election but it will be a while yet before we understand what the results mean for Canadians, including farmers. It’s an understatement to say Donald Trump’s election win came as a surprise, quite possibly even to him. The fact that his opponent received more
ground beef
Beef cattle, Comment

An appetizing case for irradiation

Canada is at least a decade behind other countries in adopting this proven and safe technology

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When it comes to food, irradiation just does not sound all that appetizing. Visions of X-ray machines and the atomic bomb quickly come to mind and associating these images with food may not be compelling. Now that Health Canada is considering the use of food irradiation for beef products, the debate rages and most wonder
Country Crossroads

How to start a food business in Manitoba

Prairie Fare: Turkey Salad with Orange Vinaigrette and Apple Wheat Berry Turkey Salad

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Perhaps the biggest mistake budding entrepreneurs make when starting their own business is miscalculating how long it will take and how much it will cost to get it up and running. Just ask Kelly Beaulieu, the founder and chief operating officer of Canadian Prairie Garden Puree, who now has food industry giants lining up for
A sample of the proposed labels to show country of origin for food sold in Australia. 
The label has a bar chart to indicate the percentage of each country.
Comment, Livestock

Australia to adopt mandatory COOL

Country has designed its own country-of-origin labels for consumers

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The Australian government has announced that it intends to introduce mandatory country-of-origin labelling for food. This is an excerpt from a press release announcing the program. Public concern over country-of-origin labelling has resulted in numerous inquiries, reports and proposals on the matter over many decades without any real change or improvement. For many years consumers
Chris Siow, a research scientist at the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine is studying the health benefits of lingonberries.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Wild or farmed? Lingonberries seek place in Manitoba agriculture

Tiny, tart and full of goodness, Manitoba’s wild lingonberries are even healthier than those grown in other areas

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Today they belong to the category often labelled as “superfoods,” but Dave Buck has always known that lingonberries were good tasting and nutritious. “I grew up in the bush,” he said. “And I can remember when I was young, my parents would pick the berries, they’d juice them. We’d have juice at Christmas and then
Outright repeal of COOL defies consumer sentiment
Livestock, Opinion

Outright repeal of COOL defies consumer sentiment

It was how the meat-packing industry applied the law that caused the negative effects on imports

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The fate of the U.S. COOL (country-of-origin labelling) program for beef, pork, and poultry hangs in the balance as Congress goes on its Independence Day recess. Given the May 18, 2015 WTO (World Trade Organization) ruling against COOL, the threat of $3 billion in retaliatory tariffs being imposed on U.S. products by Canada and Mexico,
non GMO sign
Comment, Crops

Politics and the revenge of the food consumer

The USDA has decided to act on growing pressure and establish a voluntary program 
to label food products with non-GMO content

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What was unthinkable a few years ago is now happening. In an unprecedented move, the United States Department of Agriculture has established a voluntary program to label food products with non-GMO content. Non-GMOs already exist in the marketplace, but none of them are sanctioned by the government. At the request of a global food company,

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