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Ag seen gaining on slightly weaker loonie in 2019

Jan. 11, 2019 at 7:38 pm CST

CNS Canada — Farm Credit Canada (FCC) predicts the Canadian dollar will spend the year around the 75-U.S. cent mark — slightly softer than last year’s average of 76. “We’re going to see volatility throughout the year obviously but when we look at that season, or the full year average, […]

Pacific pact spurs Canadian ag sales to Japan as U.S. watches

Jan. 10, 2019 at 8:21 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Britain faces fresh food bottleneck if no Brexit deal

Jan. 10, 2019 at 7:31 pm CST

By James Davey Paul Sandle

EU trade chief says U.S. talks won’t include agriculture

Jan. 10, 2019 at 12:10 am CST

By Chris Prentice

Ag tech tackles the next frontier — the people shortage on farms

Jan. 4, 2019 at 3:18 pm CST

By Jennifer Blair

Cargill’s net earnings down as trade fight bites

Jan. 3, 2019 at 6:59 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Grains trader Cargill on Thursday reported a 20 per cent drop in its fiscal second-quarter 2019 net earnings, as global trade tensions hit the bottom line along with challenges in the Chinese hog sector and a struggling U.S. dairy business. Three of the company’s four business […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Bolsonaro gives Brazil farm ministry powers on indigenous land

Jan. 2, 2019 at 12:09 pm CST

Rio de Janeiro/Brasilia | Reuters — New Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued an executive order on Wednesday making the agriculture ministry responsible for deciding on lands claimed by indigenous peoples, in a victory for agribusiness that will likely enrage environmentalists. The temporary decree, which will expire unless it is ratified […]

By Anthony Boadle Gabriel Stargardter

Amazon reported planning to expand Whole Foods chain

Dec. 31, 2018 at 2:10 pm CST

Reuters — Amazon.com is planning to expand its Whole Foods Market portfolio by adding more stores to put more customers within its two-hour delivery service range, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources. Whole Foods employees have visited regions of western North America for potential retail spaces in […]

By Reuters

Turning girls into farm women

Dec. 14, 2018 at 10:12 am CST

Bev Shewchuk can pinpoint the exact moment she realized she’d had enough of not being taken seriously as a farmer. She and husband, Brad, had gone into the local bank to talk financing. Even though she carried the majority of the farm management including all of the day-to-day operating of […]

By Madeleine Baerg

U.S. forecaster sees 90 per cent chance of El Nino in winter

Dec. 13, 2018 at 3:50 pm CST

Reuters — There is a 90 per cent chance of the El Nino weather pattern emerging during the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2018-19, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. “The official forecast favours the formation of a weak El Nino,” the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) […]

By Reuters