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The long-closed Manitoba Sugar Company plant still stands in Winnipeg.
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Beets won’t benefit from Hamilton sugar refinery

Sugar beet growers want more market share for their locally grown crop, but they won’t get it from Canada’s newest sugar refinery

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When shelves across Western Canada were empty of sugar after strike action at the Rogers Sugar refinery in Vancouver, Canada’s sugar beet growers renewed calls for a national sugar strategy. Groups including the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers have long decried Canada’s reliance on imported cane sugar rather than Canadian-grown sugar beets. Alberta’s crop makes up about eight per cent of the sugar
The long-closed Manitoba Sugar Company refinery in Winnipeg.
Crops

A return to Manitoba-grown sugar beets?

Alberta grower group says a national policy could reopen the door

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Manitoba hasn’t been a sugar-producing province in over 20 years. There’s been nowhere to sell it. The sole Winnipeg refinery closed in early 1997. Owned by Rogers Sugar at the time of closing — the same company whose employees are currently on strike at its cane sugar plant in Vancouver — the Manitoba Sugar Company
Canada can produce its own sugar. But it doesn’t.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Note: Sugar shortage makes for sticky business

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How can a strike involving 138 workers at a single refining operation in Vancouver affect the availability of sugar for 11 million Canadians in the four western provinces — and what does this situation tell us about our national food system as a whole? It certainly suggests that our sweet tooth has become too dependent
Before you use sugar substitutes, it’s important to understand the multiple roles that sugar plays in baking.
Farmit Manitoba

No sugar? No problem: Sweet substitutes in a sugar shortage

Empty sugar shelves don’t have to derail holiday baking, there are easy alternatives

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There’s a sugar shortage in Western Canada but your baking plans need not be kiboshed. Despite the bare sugar shelves in the grocery store, there are sweet alternatives to rescue your holiday treats and maintain the festive spirit. The science of sugar Before we use sugar substitutes, it’s important to understand the multiple roles that
“The entire time I’ve been beekeeping, I’ve never thought twice about sugar availability, other than just the price going up a little bit because of supply and demand.” – Ian Steppler, Manitoba Beekeepers Association.
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‘We’ve always taken for granted that the sugar’s always been there’

Sugar shortage highlights beekeeper feed vulnerability

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Beekeeping groups on the Prairies say it’s a good thing Western Canada’s sugar shortage didn’t happen a few months ago. The bees are now tucked away for the winter, but August and September are prime feeding seasons when beekeepers condition their colonies for winter and natural nectar sources are drying up. “We’ve always taken for granted that the
File photo of farmland in Sierra Leone. (Belen B Massieu/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

Sierra Leone passes new laws to boost landowners’ rights

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Freetown | Reuters — Sierra Leone’s parliament on Monday passed two laws that lawyers say will help boost the rights of rural landowners and women against land grabs by big mining and agribusiness firms. The West African country has a history of sometimes deadly conflict between local communities and foreign companies that have cleared huge
File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets, Other

‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

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New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs and delays amid booming shipping
(Portosdobrasil.gov.br via Flickr)
Markets

Chickens culled as Brazil truckers disrupt commodity exports

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Sao Paulo | Reuters — Striking truckers in Brazil have disrupted supply and exports of farm produce from one of the world’s agricultural commodity powerhouses. Brazil is the top global exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and chickens. The strike over high fuel prices has paralyzed Latin America’s largest economy, emptied Brazilian roadways and left major

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