Insights and Stories on News

Feds fund organic development groups

Jun. 28, 2024 at 1:41 pm CDT

MacAulay pledged up to nearly $$1,175,841 for the Canadian Organic Trade Association (COTA) over three years via the AgriMarketing program and up to $985,985 over three years to the Prairie Organic Development Fund via the AgriCompetativeness program.

Cereals Canada moves forward with building plans

Jun. 27, 2024 at 3:45 pm CDT

By Ed White

US farm agency to pay farmers for milk loss due to bird flu

Jun. 27, 2024 at 9:18 am CDT

By Leah Douglas Reuters

EU governments fail to agree on gene-editing rules despite patent exception

Jun. 26, 2024 at 4:58 pm CDT

By Reuters

Some farm dealerships back online after cyber attack

Jun. 26, 2024 at 3:03 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers John Greig

Membership crisis rocks Cereals Canada

Jun. 26, 2024 at 12:01 pm CDT

One medium-sized grain company has definitively decided to leave the organization, a large one has triggered a two-year option to depart if it chooses and other grain companies may have also triggered two-year potential-departure options, sources say. 

By Ed White

Cyber attack frustrates farm equipment dealers

Jun. 25, 2024 at 5:45 pm CDT

CDK provides business management software to dealers of all makes of farm equipment, so major dealers of John Deere, CNH and are working without digital systems across the country. CDK is also the leading provider of management software to automobile dealers and thousands of those dealerships are offline.

By Geralyn Wichers John Greig

US to clarify enforcement of antitrust laws in meatpacking

Jun. 25, 2024 at 5:09 pm CDT

Livestock farmers in the U.S. would have a clearer path to bringing antitrust complaints against meatpacking companies for unfair business practices under a rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday.

By Leah Douglas Reuters

U..S food safety regulators expand bird flu testing in milk products

Jun. 25, 2024 at 11:07 am CDT

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has begun testing more dairy products for evidence of the bird flu virus as outbreaks spread among dairy herds across the country.

By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

Denmark will be first to impose CO2 tax on livestock emissions, government says

Jun. 25, 2024 at 9:33 am CDT

Denmark, a major pork and dairy exporter, will introduce a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, making it the first country to do so and hoping to inspire others to follow, the government said on Tuesday.

By Isabelle Yr Carlsson Reuters