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Canada resists pressure to drop vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers

By GFM Network News, Steve Scherer January 10, 2022

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing ahead with a vaccine mandate for international truckers despite increasing pressure from critics who say it will exacerbate driver shortages and drive up the price of goods imported from the United States. Canada will require all truckers entering from the U.S. to show proof

New China import rules bring headaches for food, beverage makers

Cooking oil, milled grains among foods moved to higher-risk categories

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News, Siddharth Cavale December 13, 2021

Beijing | Reuters — Makers of Irish whiskey, Belgian chocolate and European coffee brands are scrambling to comply with new Chinese food and beverage regulations, with many fearful their goods will be unable to enter the giant market as a Jan. 1 deadline looms. China’s customs authority published new food safety rules in April stipulating

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: ‘Recipe shopping’ trend is trickling back through the value chain

By Laura Rance-Unger December 9, 2021

When it comes to deciding what’s for dinner in this house, we often refer to recipe books collected over the years via family hand-me-downs, fundraisers, or interest in our ethnic roots, health or ethics. It’s easy to spend an hour or more flipping through these collections, comparing notes and ingredients from one recipe or another.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Food prices are rising, but so is theft

With razor-thin margins retailers face steep losses through the front and back doors

By Sylvain Charlebois December 8, 2021

Apparently, shoplifting has been on the rise in supermarkets in Canada in recent months. Concrete data on theft in grocery stores is harder to get since incidents are typically under-reported. Managers tend to take matters into their own hands. But with the increasing number of reports on theft and security guards stationed in and out

Delivery vans from the Save-On-Foods grocery store chain wait for a police escort to cross through a landslide near Hope, B.C. on Nov. 18, 2021 to restock the local grocery store after rainstorms caused flooding and landslides in the region. (Photo: Reuters/Jesse Winter)

Weather

Panicked shoppers clear out flood-hit B.C.’s grocery stores

By GFM Network News, Nia Williams, Rod Nickel November 19, 2021

Reuters — Shoppers in British Columbia have emptied grocery shelves following catastrophic flooding, although the shortages are as much down to panic buying as disrupted supply chains, industry associations said on Thursday. Even as flood waters start to recede, some parts of the province are expected to face to temporary shortages of dairy supplies, with

File photo of a Chinese cornfield. (Baona/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

China proposes new rules to ease GMO approvals

Leadership seeks 'turnaround' in seed sector

By GFM Network News, Reuters November 15, 2021

Beijing | Reuters — China is planning changes to its seed regulations that will make it easier to approve genetically modified crops, a move seen as a critical step toward commercializing GM corn. The ministry of agriculture and rural affairs published a draft document late on Friday proposing a series of amendments to several different

It is common now to see discounted food products displayed prominently in a busy section of the store.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Food rescuing going mainstream

Food buyers are more conscious of the cost of food waste than ever before

By Sylvain Charlebois October 27, 2021

Many have claimed that the term food waste should never be used, and there is some truth to that. Food is a precious thing, and is always of value to someone, somewhere. Associating food with the term “waste” can only imply that food can become worthless. We can compost it, use it to produce biofuels,

File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Other

‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

By GFM Network News, Marcelo Teixeira October 23, 2021

New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs and delays amid booming shipping

A cornfield in Mexico’s Chihuahua state. (Undefined undefined/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Mexico won’t limit GMO corn imports from U.S., ag minister says

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek October 23, 2021

Ankeny, Iowa | Reuters — Mexico’s agriculture minister said the country would not limit imports of genetically modified (GMO) corn from the United States during a meeting with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Iowa on Wednesday. Mexico published an executive order late last year that sought to ban in three years the use of

File photo of a soybean plantation in Brazil. (Mailson Pignata/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Other

More acres seen needed worldwide to meet mounting crops demand

U.S. acres may have already hit ceiling: AgResource chief

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 19, 2021

Geneva | Reuters — Farmers need more space to grow crops to meet mounting demand for food and renewable fuel at a time of slowing growth in yields, consultancy AgResource said on Tuesday. A renewable fuel push under U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate agenda is set to trigger a boom in soyoil use, reinforcing a

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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