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Mother Nature can have a toddler’s temperament

Expert's Radar: Recession concerns may lead speculators to exit commodities

By Phil Franz-Warkentin July 4, 2023

Getting young kids involved with helping around the house is important for their development, building responsibility and growing their skills, but it can also come with plenty of unintended consequences. Dishes slip out of small hands and break. The soup bowls at the table are paired with dessert spoons. The mirror has more fingerprints than

File photo of the produce section at a Canadian grocery store. (FatCamera/E+/Getty Images)

Markets

Canada retools inflation baskets with more focus on food, gas

Snowblowers and barbecues in, DVD players out

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News June 20, 2023

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s national statistics agency on Tuesday revealed new weights for the basket of goods and services in its Consumer Price Index, giving more prominence to changes in the prices of food and gasoline. The reweighting, which Statistics Canada carries out every year, has historically had only a marginal impact on the

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Booms and busts

By Gord Gilmour June 15, 2023

I’m just old enough to remember the farm bust of the 1980s. I was a teenager at the time, and like all good parents would, my folks tried to shield me from the worst of their worries and woes. But I grew up on a grain farm, and in that era, troubles were unavoidable all

Company executives argued that food price inflation was due to problems with global supply chains in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Grocery Code of Conduct should benefit Canadians and food industry

The code was promised following concerns over grocery inflation

By Giovani J.c. Da Silveira June 12, 2023

The cost of filling your grocery cart in Canada increased by 10.3 per cent in 2022 and is projected to increase by an additional five to seven per cent this year. In response to this and other concerns, the House of Commons standing committee on agriculture and agri-food initiated studies on food price inflation and

“The overall economy to me is going to be slowing down. It’s just a matter of when and the extent of it.” – J.P. Gervais.

News

With crop in the ground, keep an eagle eye on cost of production: management specialist

By Geralyn Wichers June 8, 2023

Canadian farmers may have received more for what they sold last year, but they paid a pretty penny to get it to market. It showed in their profit margins. Overall farm income fell by nearly 10 per cent in 2022, according to a recent report from Statistics Canada. Canadian farmers’ realized net income — the difference between cash

Crops, Markets, Weather

FCC offers new credit line against ‘current economic environment’

Ag lender to waive loan processing fees

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 24, 2023

Farm Credit Canada’s recent outreach to specific agrifood sectors hit by unusual environmental conditions has now extended to those hit by the broader “economic environment.” The federal ag lender on Tuesday said it will offer an unsecured credit line of up to $500,000 with loan processing fees waived, “to help producers, agribusinesses and agri-food operations

Markets

Feds lock in higher interest-free portion on cash advances

Budget boost in effect as of Monday

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 10, 2023

A further temporary increase to the interest-free chunk of cash advances available to Canadian farmers, as telegraphed in March’s federal budget, has now gone live. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau confirmed Wednesday that the interest-free limit under the Advance Payments Program (APP) for the 2023 program year is now $350,000, effective Monday (May 8). The regulatory

How can I make the most out of my space? What should I plant? What should my fertilizer plan look like? Expert gardeners answer these questions and more.

Farmit Manitoba

Gardening for a lower food bill

If there was ever a year to maximize garden yields, food price inflation suggests this is it

By Geralyn Wichers May 3, 2023

Although snow in the third week of April suggests otherwise, Manitoba is only weeks away from gardening season. And while the large farm garden is an institution in rural areas, the memory of soaring lettuce prices and food costs in general may have Manitobans everywhere looking for a little extra from their growing space. Why

There is more at stake when your business, at least partially, is about selling food, a necessity of life.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Read the room

Galen Weston raise falls flat in time of austerity at grocery till

By Sylvain Charlebois April 24, 2023

Canadians often hold their breath as they approach their grocery store cash register these days, but it appears our grocers’ C-suite chains are just getting richer. Galen Weston, president and CEO of Loblaws, will get a hefty raise this year, $11.7 million in salaries and bonuses, up 52 per cent from 2022. Though these past

News

Britain’s Tesco cuts milk price

By James Davey April 24, 2023

Reuters – Britain’s biggest supermarket group, Tesco, has cut the price of milk for the first time since May 2020, a possible early sign that a surge in food inflation may abate in coming months. In March, grocery inflation in the U.K. rose to 17.5 per cent, according to market researcher Kantar. The price rise

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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