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Shrinking canola oil content pinches crushers, exporters

Oct. 26, 2012 at 4:14 pm CDT

Supply worries about Canada’s disappointingly small canola harvest this year are compounded by the oilseed’s reduced oil content, crimping profits for crushers and leaving food companies to scramble for other vegetable oils. Expectations were high early in the crop year that a record-large canola crop in top grower Canada would […]

U.S. winter likely to continue hot weather trend

Oct. 22, 2012 at 5:33 pm CDT

By ayesha-rascoe Deborah Zabarenko

Oat prices near historic highs

Oct. 22, 2012 at 5:01 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

Wheat up fourth straight day, eye on export demand

Oct. 22, 2012 at 4:54 pm CDT

By kt-arasu

Record-high U.S. pork stocks signal trouble for consumers in 2013

Oct. 22, 2012 at 4:48 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Will the U.S. election matter for Canada’s farmers?

Oct. 18, 2012 at 6:28 pm CDT

Western Canada’s farmers may not get a vote in the upcoming U.S. election, but policy south of the border can have a major effect on the agricultural markets across North America. U.S. agricultural policy “is extremely important… and has always had drastic effects on us,” said Terry Boehm, president of […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Loblaw to cut 700 head office, admin jobs

Oct. 16, 2012 at 3:28 pm CDT

Canada’s largest food retail company, citing long-term planning for efficiency, plans to eliminate about 700 management and administrative jobs, most notably at its head office. Loblaw Companies said Tuesday its changes take effect starting that day and should be complete in the next three weeks, for an estimated one-time fourth-quarter […]

Ontario, Manitoba book biggest gains in farmland values

Oct. 11, 2012 at 3:10 am CDT

Rises in average farmland values in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan jumped out ahead of Canada’s national average value, which itself rose at its fastest rate in years during the first half of 2012, according to Canada’s federal farm lender. Farm Credit Canada on Tuesday rolled out the fall edition of […]

Canada formally joins Trans-Pacific trade talks

Oct. 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm CDT

Seeking to reduce its reliance on the sluggish U.S. market, Canada has formally joined 10 other nations in talks on creating an Asia Pacific free trade agreement, the federal government said on Tuesday. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations are designed to produce a free-trade zone with a combined population of […]

One in eight of world population going hungry, UN says

Oct. 9, 2012 at 6:18 am CDT

One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations’ food agencies said Tuesday, warning that progress to reduce hunger has slowed since 2007-08 when high food prices sparked riots in several poor countries. In their latest report on food insecurity, the UN agencies estimated […]

By Catherine Hornby