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When gas prices drop, people buy chocolate

Twenty per cent of gas bar customers also stock up on treats

By Luc Cohen November 6, 2014

U.S. chocolate demand may have received an extra boost from an unlikely source this Halloween: the U.S. shale revolution. With an abundance of crude oil due to the country’s fracking boom pushing average U.S. retail gasoline prices to their lowest in four years, consumers have spare change to buy sweets at gas station stores, Hershey

Hogs, Livestock, News

U.S. pork stocks balloon as prices curb appetites

By Theopolis Waters March 29, 2012

Reuters / High meat and gasoline prices have curbed consumers’ appetite for pork, which caused the meat to pile up in warehouses last month, analysts said March 22. That February pork supply was up seven per cent from the previous month, and up nine per cent from a year ago, the data showed. “This confirms

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Tyson Foods: High gasoline prices threaten beef demand

March 14, 2012

washington / reuters / U.S. consumers may try to save money by eating less meat if they continue to feel the pinch of high gasoline prices, the chief executive of Tyson Foods said Feb. 24. “People want meat… but it’s getting pretty expensive,” CEO Donnie Smith told reporters at an agricultural conference in Washington, D.C.

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

Food Bills Limit Decline In Consumer Prices: StatsCan

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 22, 2009

Still-rising food prices all across Canada helped limit a decline in consumer prices last month compared to September 2008, Statistics Canada reports. The federal statistics agency Oct. 16 said that the primary upward pressure on its September 2009 consumer price index (CPI) came from food prices, which rose 2.8 per cent in the previous 12

Crops

NFU Seeks Excise Tax Rebate On Retail Fuel

By Allan Dawson May 14, 2009

The National Farmers Union says farmers should be able to buy their excise tax-free diesel at retail pumps and receive an 11.5-cent-per-litre rebate later. The NFU made the request in a letter to Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk. Wowchuk was hesitant to comment on the request last week having not yet received the letter. “But the

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When gas prices drop, people buy chocolate

U.S. pork stocks balloon as prices curb appetites

Tyson Foods: High gasoline prices threaten beef demand

Food Bills Limit Decline In Consumer Prices: StatsCan

NFU Seeks Excise Tax Rebate On Retail Fuel

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