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The number of vegetarians and vegans has remained steady at three per cent and one per cent respectively.

Consumers will eat less meat in 2023: report

New report suggests inflation, climate concerns key but eaters aren’t turning to plant-based ‘meat’

By Geralyn Wichers December 1, 2022

A new report predicts consumers will reduce the amount of meat they eat in 2023. “A diet blending animal and vegetable proteins results in a more affordable household food budget and planetary budget,” said the 2023 trend report from Nourish Food Marketing. In a recently released 2022 public trust report from the Canadian Centre for

Some food experts predict lettuce shortages and price increases could last well into January. Others are hoping that by December, the next crop to ripen in Yuma, Arizona, and northern Mexico will fill demand.

Farmit Manitoba, News

Winter salads without lettuce

Beat the shortages and high prices with these healthy and tasty options

By Getty Stewart November 28, 2022

Lettuce, particularly romaine and iceberg, is in short supply and high demand across North America. You may see empty lettuce shelves or prices so high you simply walk by. Except for a few local growers, most lettuce greens come from the southern U.S. or Mexico. But drought and severe weather caused many lettuce and other

“This program increases access to healthy, local food for those who need it most while supporting our local farmers and farmers markets...” – Kristie Beynon.

News

New life for Community Food Currency Program

Provincial funding breathes new life into farmers market voucher program

By Don Norman November 28, 2022

The province has thrown a lifeline to a struggling food currency program. In a recent announcement, the government said it would provide $1.1 million over the next three years for Direct Farm Manitoba’s Community Food Currency Program. “We are thrilled to see the program expand, building on its previous success, with this support from the

Lentil-based shepherd’s pie being prepared for the children.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Sustainability shouldn’t be an optical illusion

We should pay attention to our environmental impact, but not exaggerate it

By Kristy Nudds November 8, 2022

Glacier FarmMedia – An interesting email landed in my inbox earlier this fall. It was from a freelance writer and Glacier FarmMedia contributor Rebecca Hannam, and its subject was a press release from Ontario’s University of Guelph, often described as “Canada’s food university.” The document touted how the University of Guelph’s Child Care and Learning Centre (CCLC)

News

Fake meat challenges name ban in Paris restaurant debut

By Reuters November 2, 2022

The arrival of veggie meat dishes on Parisian steakhouse menus with names such as “tenderloin” and “flank” poses a challenge to French government efforts to ban meat names for plant-based products. The global market for plant-based meat-like food has been booming, attracting major investment from global agri-food groups that hope to capitalize on a trend

Investors are increasingly focusing on links between a healthy food system and efforts to fight global warming and preserve biodiversity. Photo: fotografixx/Getty Images

Crops, Markets

U.N.-backed investors set fresh targets in sustainable food shift

By GFM Network News October 27, 2022

Reuters – A U.N.-backed group of global financial institutions including Dutch lender Rabobank on Thursday set out a series of company specific environmental and social targets aimed at helping drive a shift to a more sustainable food system. Set by a group of 11 firms in the Good Food Finance Network, including Nuveen Natural Capital

Bunge’s refined and specialty oils segment turned in stronger quarterly earnings in the Americas and Europe. Photo: Thinkstock

Crop merchant Bunge raises full-year profit outlook

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume October 26, 2022

Agricultural commodities trader Bunge Ltd BG.N on Wednesday raised its full-year earnings outlook after posting an adjusted third-quarter profit that topped expectations, sending its shares up about 2 per cent in premarket trading. The improved forecast was attributed to favorable market conditions as tight global crop supplies and strong demand have benefited supply chain middlemen

‘When farmers view themselves as commodity producers, there can be a tendency to think that the responsibility for their products ends upon delivery to the processing facility or the elevator. That is not the case.’ – Cam Dahl.

Comment, Comment/Feedback

Comment: We are food producers

Inside agriculture they might be commodities, but at the grocery store, what you produce is food

By Cam Dahl October 24, 2022

Farmers are often referred to as “producers” – wheat producers, canola producers, cattle producers, hog producers, etc. While these references are logically rooted in the commodities grown on individual farms, they don’t provide a bridge to consumers filling their grocery carts. If we change the way we look at what farmers do, away from these

A combine unloads wheat on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in western India on March 16, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

Crops, Markets

India allows exports of wheat flour processed from imported grain

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 15, 2022

New Delhi | Reuters — India has allowed export-oriented units and the firms set up in special economic zones to export flour made from imported wheat, a government order said on Friday, conceding to the demands of food processors to allow shipments of value-added products. India will allow food processors to import duty-free wheat against

A man looks through piles of trash on a stream in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Oct. 13, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo)

Crops

Haiti gang blockade causing catastrophic hunger, U.N. says

Situation "close to breaking point," WFP rep says

By Brian Ellsworth, GFM Network News October 15, 2022

Miami | Reuters — Haitians are experiencing catastrophic hunger because of gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal, U.N. officials said on Friday, with more than four million facing acute food insecurity. A coalition of gangs has prevented the distribution of diesel and gasoline for over a month to protest a plan to cut fuel subsidies.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle extend gains on improving cash prices, packer demand

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide on China demand doubts

Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak

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