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Cargill to reopen Guelph beef plant after coronavirus outbreak

Reuters – Cargill Inc plans to begin reopening its Guelph, Ont., beef processing plant next week on Dec. 29, days after it closed the facility due to an outbreak of COVID-19 infections among workers, the company said. Last week, Cargill voluntarily agreed to the temporarily closure as 82 workers tested positive for the virus and

Bayer cancels plans to sell U.S. crop product in 2020 over safety concerns

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek July 30, 2019

Chicago | Reuters – Bayer AG has scrapped plans for wide sales next year of a chemical that is intended to protect U.S. crops from yield-robbing worms, citing ongoing safety concerns. The decision is the latest setback for Germany-based Bayer following its acquisition of Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018. Bayer is separately battling thousands of lawsuits claiming Monsanto’s glyphosate-based

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Futures rally on choppy grains, hopes for Chinese buying spree

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter July 23, 2019

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live hog futures rallied on Tuesday, as competition among packers for spot delivery grew and animal weights slipped after the recent U.S. heat wave, traders said. Live cattle futures also inched up, supported in part by choppy trading in U.S. grain futures and growing questions of whether

Hogs, Livestock

China culls 200,000 pigs due to African swine fever – official

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News October 19, 2018

China | Reuters – China, the world’s top pork producer, has culled 200,000 pigs so far following outbreaks of highly contagious African swine fever in the country, a Chinese animal health official said on Friday. While that represents only a tiny portion of the nearly 700 million pigs slaughtered in China each year for sale as pork, restrictions

Opinion

Opinion: U.S. and China stumble into Thucydides Trap

By John Kemp April 17, 2018

The United States and China have fired the opening shots in a trade war that may be hard to stop. The United States has appeared eager to impose tariffs to create leverage and force China into concessions on the bilateral trade deficit, intellectual property protection and forced technology transfer. For its part, China has appeared

[VIDEO] Chicken poo power as an alternative to coal?

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 3, 2018

Israeli researchers have developed a way to mimic coal formation by heating wet chicken waste, potentially providing an alternative energy source to that fossil fuel and find a use for growing amounts of waste from poultry. – Amy Pollock reports for Reuters.

International news

VIDEO: Smart garden makes urban farming easy

By Reuters November 3, 2017

Estonia-based ‘Click and Grow’ preview its latest ‘smart garden’ at the IFA tech fair in Berlin, a window box for the the modern age that grows vegetables and herbs automatically, as Matthew Stock reports for Reuters.

International news, Weather

VIDEO: Climate change takes its toll on Chablis

By Reuters October 25, 2017

Reuters | France – French wine production may fall 17 per cent this year to a record low after spring frosts damaged vineyards, notably in the Bordeaux region. As Sonia Legg reports, the farm ministry fears the region could lose half its output.

News

New Taiwan bird flu shows animal virus risk to humans

By Kate Kelland November 27, 2013

A woman in Taiwan has become the first person in the world with a confirmed case of a new strain of bird flu, adding to a growing body of evidence of the potential threat from animal viruses that mutate to be able to infect people. Scientists from Taiwan said the infection — with a bird

Cereals, News

Israeli agri-tech firm aims for big boost in crop yields without GMOs

By Ori Lewis And Rinat Harash, Reuters November 20, 2013

An Israeli enterprise which aims to boost global crop yields without the aid of genetic modification will sow its first commercial seeds within three years, the company pioneering the technique has told Reuters. Seed technology firm Kaiima Bio-Agritech says it has developed a way to greatly speed up the multiplication of the genome of crops,

Alberta’s Lakeland to offer ag tech degree

Funds’ net long position edges lower in canola

Prairie cash wheat: Bids track rally in U.S. futures

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