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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)

Food retail order boom may ease after big quarter, Conagra says

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 1, 2020

Reuters — Conagra Brands put better-than-expected first quarter sales on Thursday down to heavy ordering by retailers worried about the durability of supply chains in the months ahead as a second wave of coronavirus cases takes hold. Shares in the foodstuffs maker dipped as much as three per cent before recovering after chief financial officer

Markets

Feds pondering more self-reliance in Canada’s food

'Even if we are already in a good position, we can always do better,' Bibeau says

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News September 28, 2020

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is looking for ways to make Canada’s food supply more autonomous. In an interview Thursday, Bibeau pointed to her minority Liberal government’s pledge in the throne speech to further support the food value chain. That could mean a review of food infrastructure across the country, according to Bibeau. Specifics aren’t yet

Joanne Thiessen Martens and Chelsea Sutherland.

News, News & Opinion, Other

Studies in soil science, ag practices earn national scholarships

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 27, 2020

A University of Manitoba PhD student has earned a national scholarship toward her work on struvite — a naturally produced mineral found in waste water — as a source of phosphorus fertilizer in organic cropping systems. Joanne Thiessen Martens was announced Aug. 27 as the recipient of the Canadian Foundation for Food and Agricultural Education’s

Hogs, Livestock

Olymel’s Red Deer plant holds at one COVID case

Pork plant employee's contacts returning to work

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 21, 2020

A production line employee at Olymel’s hog slaughter plant at Red Deer, Alta. remains the facility’s lone COVID-19 case after her contacts at the plant tested negative for the virus, the company says. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec ag co-operative Sollio, confirmed the lone COVID-19 case at its Red Deer site on Aug.

Officials at the Aug. 13, 2020 rollout of the federal surplus food program included (l-r) Julie Marchand of Food Banks of Quebec, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, Claude Dulude of Nutri Group, Marie-Jose Mastromonaco of Second Harvest, Tania Little of Food Banks Canada and Serge Lefebvre of Nutri Group. (Photo courtesy Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Livestock, Markets

Feds line up projects for surplus food program

NGOs backed to gather, distribute 12 million kg of food

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 14, 2020

The federal government has lined up eight projects to source and distribute perishable produce, meat, eggs and seafood piling up across Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the federal pandemic response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in early May that Ottawa would budget $50 million for a food surplus purchase program. The

Crops

Mexico to phase out use of glyphosate

Farmers to have until 2024 to phase out herbicide

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 13, 2020

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico will gradually phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate by the time the current administration ends in late 2024, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday, following a ministerial spat over the product. Acknowledging differences between his agriculture and environment ministries over the herbicide, which is used in

News, Other

Culinary in the age of COVID

There’s never been anything like it when it comes to Canadian restaurants

By D.C. Fraser July 21, 2020

Closures, layoffs, worry over how to pay the bills, slow reopening with limited seating and a very wary clientele that’s slow to return. That’s just some of the ‘new normal’ for Canadian restaurateurs, according to the University of Guelph’s sixth and final webinar in a series featuring agri-food experts about food and agriculture during the

(Noel Hendrickson/DigitalVision/Getty Images)

Op/Ed, Other

Don’t be fooled by the COVID-19 cons

Opinion | Tough times always mean more food fraud and COVID-19 will be no exception

By Sylvain Charlebois June 29, 2020

When costs rise, most food companies adjust. Safe, fair, and sustainable business practices are always a priority in this sector. Regrettably though, it is not always the case. Several food science experts believe that an increase in food fraud is inevitable due to COVID-19. The Food Authenticity Network Advisory Board, which includes over 1,500 food

Louis Dreyfus’ oilseed processing plant at Yorkton, Sask. (LDC.com)

Crops

Louis Dreyfus adds venture capital unit

New unit's potential budget not yet discussed publicly

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 18, 2020

Paris | Reuters — Agricultural commodities trader Louis Dreyfus Co. has launched a venture capital program to invest in food and farming firms while also announcing a change of head for its innovation business. “Over the coming months, we will invest in early-stage companies with the potential to transform the food and agriculture industries,” CEO

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Markets, Other

Details on federal food surplus program expected in ‘days’

Ottawa already at work with businesses, minister says

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News June 13, 2020

Ottawa — Detailed plans of the federal government’s food buyback program are expected soon, according to Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. Ottawa tabbed $50 million of its COVID-19 response funds for agriculture to buy surplus food from farmers and redistribute it to communities in need. The challenge Bibeau and her federal colleagues are faced with is

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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