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Biden administration putting up US$2.1 billion to strengthen food system

By Leah Douglas June 14, 2022

Reuters – The Biden administration plans to spend more than US$2.1 billion in funding to shore up weaknesses in the country’s food supply system exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will unveil the new funding, designed to enhance competition in food processing

Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: A broken system

Supply chain fragility reveals overall economic fragility of globalization

By Alan Guebert March 30, 2022

One of the most beautiful – and inexplicable – aspects of economics is how its practitioners never seem to be wrong. Indeed, almost every school of economic thought, from John Maynard Keynes’ demand-driven economics on the left to Arthur Laffer’s supply-side economics on the right, is crowded with disciples defending their leader’s theories and just

Crops

Canadian and U.S. shippers brace for possible CP strike

Strike notice not yet given

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel March 15, 2022

Winnipeg | Reuters — Thousands of workers at Canada’s second-biggest railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, have threatened to strike this week, potentially disrupting the movement of grain, potash and coal at a time of soaring commodity prices. The strike is the latest risk to Canada’s battered supply chain, which last year weathered floods in British Columbia

Frito-Lay products are made in Canada, using Canadian potatoes grown by Canadian farmers.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: War on potato chips just the tip of the iceberg

This is all about the balance of power in the grocery retailing system

By Sylvain Charlebois March 4, 2022

We recently learned that Frito-Lay, a brand owned by giant PepsiCo Canada, opted to stop selling to Loblaws after the retailer refused requests by Frito-Lay to increase their prices. Food manufacturers, when selling products to grocers, have suggested retail prices. With low profit margins, labour shortages, packaging issues and supply chain woes, inflation has been

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Managing short supply

By Gord Gilmour February 24, 2022

Early on in the pandemic I recall standing in line in the cold outside Costco, waiting for my turn to get into the store. As I waited, more or less patiently, I noticed several hastily made signs on printer paper that lined the crowd control fences — or perhaps ‘human corral’ might be a more

Crops

Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says

Company provides heads-up on 'force majeure event'

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 14, 2022

No one is yet using the word ‘shortage’ but farmers may need to get ready for less Roundup temporarily, following a “force majeure” event at a plant supplying an ingredient in the recipe for glyphosate. Bayer, the chemical company whose Roundup brand remains the best known of the glyphosate herbicides, reported as much in an

The meat section in a grocery store in Selkirk, Man., on Jan. 30, 2022.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Grocery store shelves are all right

Supply chains are stressed and Omicron isn’t helping, but you’ll still eat

By Sylvain Charlebois February 8, 2022

In many parts of the country, Canadians are now reporting a growing number of empty grocery store shelves. It’s happening here, in the United States, and in many other parts of the industrialized world; it’s not just a Canadian phenomenon. Before Omicron, empty shelves were already visible, but few noticed. They were sporadic in the

File photo of a pea crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Slow demand pulls down pea prices

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 18, 2022

MarketsFarm — Slow demand has been behind the declines in green and yellow peas, according to Marcos Mosnaim of Mercais Commodities in Toronto. Over the last week, prices for western Canadian green peas have lost 30 cents per bushel at $14.50-$16.20 per bushel delivered, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire. Those for yellow peas have dropped

CF Industries’ UAN plant at Donaldsonville in Louisiana. The company also makes UAN at plants in Ontario, Iowa and Oklahoma. (Thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com)

Crops, Markets

Fertilizer shortage may lead to spring scramble

'It's next year's prices I'm worried about'

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel November 24, 2021

Reuters — A global shortage of nitrogen fertilizer is driving prices to record levels, prompting North America’s farmers to delay purchases and raising the risk of a spring scramble to apply the crop nutrient before planting season. The Texas Arctic Blast in February and Hurricane Ida in August disrupted U.S. fertilizer production. Then, prices of

Ten-year-old Balsam fir trees on Nov. 12, 2021 at Downey Tree Farm and Nursery at Hatley, Que., about 30 km south of Sherbrooke. (File photo: Reuters/Christinne Muschi)

Crops, Other, Weather

B.C. floods may tighten market for real Christmas trees

'We're basically shut down until the water recedes'

By GFM Network News, Julie Gordon November 18, 2021

Ottawa | Reuters — Finding the perfect real Christmas tree will be harder and more expensive this year. Canada, the world’s top exporter of natural Christmas trees, is grappling with a shortage that will likely be exacerbated by historic flooding in British Columbia, where some tree farms are underwater. A phenomenon known as an atmospheric

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn drops to 12-week low on report of massive stocks, record harvest

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise, hogs fall on WASDE

Resignation of Saskatchewan wheat breeder draws concern

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