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Borderline city hosts interprovincial food trade pilot

Jan. 31, 2023 at 3:55 am CST

The idea of loosening interprovincial trade in certain foods made by provincially-inspected processors will get a major test in one of Canada’s very few province-crossing municipalities. The Saskatchewan, Alberta and federal governments on Jan. 19 announced the start of a two-year pilot project within the limits of Lloydminster, a city […]

Development partners commit US$30 billion to food production in Africa

Jan. 27, 2023 at 8:11 pm CST

By Bate Felix

U.S. wants WTO dispute system fixed by 2024

Jan. 26, 2023 at 7:40 pm CST

By emma-farge

CFIA president retires

Jan. 26, 2023 at 5:17 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Prairies’ warmer spell to be usurped by arctic front

Jan. 24, 2023 at 2:03 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Ritchie Bros. raises cash payout in bid for IAA

Jan. 23, 2023 at 4:14 pm CST

Reuters — Canada’s Ritchie Bros. on Monday sweetened the cash component of its buyout offer for IAA Inc. by 28 per cent, valuing the U.S. auto retailer at US$5.94 billion, and also secured the backing of a key IAA shareholder which had questioned the initial offer. The latest cash-and-stock offer […]

By Reuters

China driving crude oil price increases

Jan. 18, 2023 at 4:32 pm CST

MarketsFarm — China has largely been behind the current upticks in global crude oil prices, according to Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for Oil Price Information Services in Lakewood, NJ. He suggested that China’s economy will begin to pick up steam in 2023 after the government loosened its […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

California rainstorms fade as death toll reaches 20

Jan. 17, 2023 at 2:44 am CST

Reuters — The parade of atmospheric rivers that pounded California for three weeks finally faded on Monday, enabling the state to begin lengthy repairs to roads and levees as the White House announced U.S. President Joe Biden planned to survey the damage. The nine consecutive rainstorms that inundated California in […]

By Daniel Trotta

Rabobank to offer Canadian farm-level lending

Jan. 13, 2023 at 5:50 am CST

Updated — A global financing firm operating at higher altitudes in Canada’s food and agrifood sector now plans to expand its business down to the farm and ranch level. The Canadian arm of Rabobank — an Amsterdam-based farmer co-operative lender, providing banking, leasing and real estate services in more than […]

By Dave Bedard

Last year tied as world’s fifth-warmest on record, U.S. scientists say

Jan. 12, 2023 at 4:10 pm CST

Brussels | Reuters — Last year was the world’s joint fifth-warmest on record and the last nine years were the nine warmest since pre-industrial times, putting the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5 C in serious jeopardy, U.S. scientists said on Thursday. Last year tied with […]

By Kate Abnett