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Soil should be a strategic national asset: Senate committee

Jun. 6, 2024 at 10:01 am CDT

The Critical Ground: Why Soil is Essential to Canada’s Economic, Environmental, Human and Social Health report said Canada requires an overarching strategy to collect better data. It says a national soils institute database that shares information with provinces, academics and producers should be established.

wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia.

Crop woes may lead Russia to narrow grain exports

Jun. 6, 2024 at 9:48 am CDT

By Olga Popova Reuters

Cows infected with bird flu have died in five US states

Jun. 6, 2024 at 9:28 am CDT

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek Reuters

WATCH: Quiet on ASF front doesn’t mean danger is gone

Jun. 5, 2024 at 5:14 pm CDT

Bird flu reported in Iowa dairy herd, expanding US outbreak in cows

Jun. 5, 2024 at 4:16 pm CDT

By Reuters Tom Polansek

Bank of Canada interest rate cut to give some borrowers relief

Jun. 5, 2024 at 1:55 pm CDT

The Bank of Canada trimmed its key policy rate on Wednesday to 4.75 per cent from a 23-year high of five per cent. Inflation is now running at 2.7 per cent, above the central bank's two per cent target, but down from a high of 8.1 per cent in June 2022, Reuters reported.

By Geralyn Wichers

Issues loom over hog farmers as they gather in Des Moines

Jun. 5, 2024 at 1:12 pm CDT

North America's hog industry is grappling with multiple issues these days, but is presently feeling better than some of the other livestock industries. That doesn't mean that everything's great, but not yet having to deal with avian flu infections is keeping hog farmers in a cautiously optimistic mood about their challenges.

By Ed White

Deere announces job cuts to tackle slowing farm equipment demand

Jun. 5, 2024 at 11:06 am CDT

Deere & Co said on Wednesday it would cut an unspecified number of production and salaried jobs to save costs as it grapples with a downturn in farm equipment demand.

By Reuters

ADM says its head of global supply leaving company

Jun. 4, 2024 at 4:58 pm CDT

Camille Batiste, Archer-Daniels-Midland's senior vice president of global supply chain and procurement and a member of its executive council, is leaving the company next month, according to an internal email seen by Reuters on Tuesday and later confirmed by ADM.

By Reuters