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Oct. 15, 2024 at 10:31 am CDT

Fertilizer maker Mosaic Co said on Monday that its Florida facilities are expected to return to full production capacity over the coming days after being idled due to Hurricane Milton.

By Reuters

Oct. 15, 2024 at 10:27 am CDT

California is investigating five possible human cases of bird flu among dairy farm workers, in addition to the six cases previously confirmed in the state, the state health department said on Monday.

By Leah Douglas, Reuters

Oct. 15, 2024 at 10:23 am CDT

Canada's annual inflation rate slowed more than expected to 1.6 per cent in September, data showed on Tuesday, prompting markets to increase bets of a 50 basis point rate cut next week. The easing of inflation, which was mainly led by a huge drop in the price of gasoline, was the smallest annual increase in consumer prices since February 2021, Statistics Canada said.

By Ismail Shakil, Promit Mukherjee, Reuters

Oct. 11, 2024 at 10:59 am CDT

Maple Leaf Food's pork division, set to separate into an independent company, will be named Canada Packers.

By Geralyn Wichers

Oct. 11, 2024 at 10:17 am CDT

Corporate backers of a planned fertilizer plant in Saskatchewan say they will one day sell fertilizer with lower greenhouse gas output than is usually associated with synthetic fertilizer production. The plant, to be built in Belle Plaine in central Saskatchewan, is the brain child of Saskatoon’s Genesis Fertilizers and CARBONCO, […]

By Jeff Melchior