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The Stepplers raise tropical house crickets, not the black crickets Manitobans might see outside.
Farmit Manitoba

VIDEO: Traditional and alternative proteins peacefully coexist in ‘Stepplerville’

Prairie Cricket Farms began in a tent in a basement. Now, it’s making its way into grocery stores across the province

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Inside the barn, it’s always a hot summer night. It’s 34 C, and a million crickets sing a soft but steady chorus. Outside the barn, it’s a textbook, idyllic early-harvest day on a Manitoba farm. A handful of cattle chew their cuds in a nearby pasture. The wheat across the drive is in the late
Markets, News

Brazilian food processor BRF CEO resigns

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Reuters – Brazilian food processor BRF said Aug. 29 that chief executive Lorival Luz had resigned and will be replaced by Miguel Gularte, a top executive at beef-packer Marfrig Global Foods. Shares in the poultry and pork processor were mixed as BRF investors digested the news. “To some extent, Miguel Gularte can be described as
As consumers, we should expect more rebates, discounted products and loss leaders. It’s easier to offer deals when market conditions are more stable.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Food inflation seems to be concluding

More stability and predictability are leading to a slower inflation rate

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Statistics Canada is reminding Canadians every month how painful their trips to the grocery store have been recently. The retail inflation rate is still at an astonishing 9.9 per cent, its highest point since 1981. In fact, our food inflation rate has exceeded the general rate since December of last year, which is why food
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Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Is fake meat healthy? And what’s actually in it?

It can be more environmentally sustainable but not all effects are clear

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The popularity of plant-based proteins, or “fake meat,” has increased in recent years as consumers look to eat fewer animal products. Many consumers believe these fake meats are better for their health, as well as better for the environment, but is that right? It may sound obvious, but the first thing to say is that
People cook food beside their damaged house following rains and floods during Pakistan’s monsoon season at Jafarabad, about 400 km north of Hyderabad, on Aug. 28, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Amer Hussain)
Crops, Markets, Weather

Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Flooding wrecks crops, hampers logistics

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Lahore | Reuters — Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis. Pakistan’s 220 million people are already facing rampant inflation, with consumer prices up
A lupin test plot at the Parkland Crop Diversification Foundation site at Roblin.
Crops

Lupin variety shows promise

Could be used for livestock feed, human consumption

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James Frey of the Parklands Crop Diversification Foundation points at a stand of low-growing plants in a test plot south of Roblin. It’s a legume with potential as a feed crop for humans and livestock. “This is a variety called the blue lupin,” he said. “It falls out on the same lines with faba beans,
File photo of a rainy day in Iqaluit. (Wildnerdpix/iStock/Getty Images)
Markets, Weather

Cold and hungry: Food inflation bites Canada’s North

'It's really expensive to do business here'

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Iqaluit | Reuters –– In Canada’s remote North, residents have long paid dearly for food, and rising prices have worsened an already dire situation, exposing the vulnerability of one of the world’s biggest exporters of grains and meat. Communities in Nunavut — the largest of the three territories that make up Canada’s northernmost region —
Black soldier fly larvae a few days from processing size.
Farmit Manitoba

VIDEO: Lord of the flies: The promise of sustainable protein in fly larvae

Danish firm sees enormous potential in black soldier fly larvae for feed and oil

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A mass of writhing maggots feasting on decomposing organic matter isn’t the most appetizing mental image. In fact, for most people, the role of the fly in the circle of life is probably best not thought of while eating. But for one Danish firm, the black soldier fly belongs in the food system and is
File photo of tea plantations in Sri Lanka. (Dmitrii Anikin/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

Rajapaksa dynasty draws to humiliating close in Sri Lanka

Food shortages, fertilizer ban among flashpoints

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Colombo | Reuters — The Rajapaksa dynasty dominated Sri Lankan politics until April when street protests against fuel and food shortages began to slip out of control. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, leaving no one from the once-illustrious family in a position of power. The president vowed last month to stay
Internally displaced Ethiopians queue to receive food aid in the Higlo camp for people displaced by drought, at the town of Gode in Ethiopia’s Somali region on April 26, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)
News

Activists pan G7 pledge to fight global hunger

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sparked fears of hunger and malnutrition

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Activists sharply criticized a pledge by the Group of Seven rich countries on June 28 to commit US$4.5 billion to fight global hunger, saying the sum fell short of what was needed with millions of people on the brink of starvation. The worst drought in decades in parts of Africa and soaring food prices, driven

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