An Open Letter To The Prime Minister And All Federal Leaders

Canada’s independent ranchers and farmers – the backbone of our cattle and beef sectors – are receiving some of the lowest prices they’ve seen since the Great Depression. Adjusted for inflation, prices today are half of price averages from the 1970s, and ’80s. Today’s Depressionechoing prices are bankrupting long-standing cattle producers and forcing farm families

General Mills Sees Eat-At-Home Trend Sticking

“You can save a lot of money in a short period of time without the consumer noticing that you are changing your product, in fact, without changing your product at all.” – JEFF HARMENING General Mills Inc. thinks that now that consumers have been eating more meals at home during the recession they will keep


Consumers Still Fret About Grain Prices

Uncertainty over U. S. spring plantings of corn and soybeans and recent weakness in the dollar have brought a resurgence in grain prices that spells fresh headaches for consumers and food makers this year. The commodities, at the base of a food chain that feeds into hundreds of supermarket products, from oils to starches to

U. S. Creates Over $1 Trillion, Sends Markets Higher

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg c losed the week ended March 20 higher, with strength in the Chicago markets giving good support to prices. Canola was boosted by a disciplined slow approach to farmer


Feed costs trigger inflation

U. S. food prices will rise by at least seven per cent in 2009 because of higher feed costs for chickens, hogs and cattle, said a group of food industry economists Nov. 6. It would be the third year in a row that food prices rose faster than the overall U. S. inflation rate. Food

World food security needs collaboration

It is interesting to see how the current financial crisis is changing the way that we think about the world. This point was driven home for me when I had the opportunity to attend a symposium last week in Berkeley, Calif. entitled “Causes and Consequences of the Food Price Crisis.” Sponsored by the Giannini Foundation,