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Buyer steps up for shuttered Winnipeg plant protein processor

May. 26, 2025 at 11:38 am CDT

The receiver for the Merit Functional Foods plant protein processing site in Winnipeg has applied for court approval to sell to a Manitoba numbered company.

Australian authorities airdrop supplies to farmers stranded by flood crisis

May. 26, 2025 at 9:39 am CDT

By Reuters

EU urges respect not threats as Trump pushes for 50 per cent tariff

May. 23, 2025 at 4:23 pm CDT

By philip-blenkinsop Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn and soy fall on Trump recommendations for EU tariffs

May. 23, 2025 at 4:14 pm CDT

By Renee Hickman Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle mixed as report shows inventory down

May. 23, 2025 at 4:08 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Alberta spring planting slows, but remains ahead of average

May. 23, 2025 at 4:04 pm CDT

Despite some delays, spring planting in Alberta remained well ahead of the five-average, according to the May 23 report from the province's agriculture department.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Wheat bids rise across Western Canada

May. 23, 2025 at 2:08 pm CDT

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada found some strength during the week ended May 22, as gains in the United States futures more than countered the bearish influence of a rising Canadian dollar.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture to hold Alberta forum

May. 23, 2025 at 12:01 pm CDT

Canada's office of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) will host the 2025 Americas Agriculture and Food Security Forum at Olds College at the same time as the G7 summit on June 15-17.

By Jonah Grignon

U.S. farm groups call Kennedy’s ‘MAHA’ report unscientific, fear-based

May. 23, 2025 at 11:18 am CDT

Several U.S. agriculture groups say the federal Make America Healthy Again report, released Thursday, is fear-based and anti-science. The report takes aim at what U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy has called a crisis of increasing rates of childhood obesity, diabetes, cancer, mental health disorders and other health issues.

By Jonah Grignon

JBS minority shareholders approve dual US-Brazil listing

May. 23, 2025 at 9:54 am CDT

Brazilian meatpacker JBS on Friday secured shareholder support to move ahead with a long-planned dual listing of shares in both the United States and Brazil, it said in a securities filing.

By Reuters