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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.

Farmit Manitoba

Manitoba sisters follow parents’ pioneering ways to innovative plant ‘milk’

Since the 1980s and ‘90s, the Pizzeys have believed flax is much more than an industrial oilseed

By Geralyn Wichers October 11, 2022

Three sisters from Russell are forging a new path with a plant-based ‘milk’ they say is packed with benefits. “It’s not only a dairy-free option. Flax seed is full of other nutritious properties,” said Mary Ekman, CEO of Manitoba Milling Company. The company is the retail arm of flax processor Pizzey Ingredients. The three Pizzey

File photo of a Conagra production facility at Oakdale, Calif., about 150 km east of San Francisco, on Dec, 18, 2015. (Photo: Reuters/Fred Greaves)

Markets

Conagra tops profit, sales estimates even as consumers turn thrifty

By GFM Network News October 6, 2022

Reuters — Conagra Brands beat quarterly sales and profit estimates on Thursday, boosted by higher prices for its Marie Callender’s and Slim Jim brands even as consumer demand wanes under the weight of decades-high inflation. Global food companies have been increasing prices over the past year to shield profit margins, which have been squeezed by

Attendees of the Discover the Farm event crushing canola to create oil.

News

Farm and Food Awareness week events raise profile of Manitoba agriculture sector

Discover the Farm beat attendance expectations and AITC-Manitoba officially launched its new virtual knowledge hub

By Don Norman September 30, 2022

Visitors to the unofficial kickoff party for Food and Farm Awareness Week were greeted with warm skies and above-seasonal temperatures Sept. 18. The Discover the Farm event at the Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre took place one day before the week’s official launch and it lived up to its name. “It was a phenomenal day,

Editorial, Op/Ed

Guest Editorial: Strike while the iron’s hot

By Alexis Stockford September 29, 2022

There’s a stereotype that everyone, at some point, realizes they’ve become their parent. For me this year, as I pulled out the old canning skills to help beat back the grocery bill, it was more like temporarily becoming one of my grandparents. It makes sense since, much more like grandma’s day than in the last

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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