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A man cleans a tractor at a sanitary barrier, after Brazil confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on Friday, triggering protocols for a country-wide trade ban from top buyer China and state-wide restrictions for other major consumers, in Montenegro, Brazil

Brazil chicken exports tick down in May after bird flu outbreak

May. 27, 2025 at 10:15 am CDT

Chicken meat exports from Brazil have fallen slightly year-on-year in May, trade data from the government showed on Monday, after the country logged a case of bird flu on a commercial farm.

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Judge approves $500 million settlement in bread price fixing class action

May. 26, 2025 at 2:10 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Buyer steps up for shuttered Winnipeg plant protein processor

May. 26, 2025 at 11:38 am CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Australian authorities airdrop supplies to farmers stranded by flood crisis

May. 26, 2025 at 9:39 am CDT

By Reuters

EU urges respect not threats as Trump pushes for 50 per cent tariff

May. 23, 2025 at 4:23 pm CDT

By philip-blenkinsop Reuters

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture to hold Alberta forum

May. 23, 2025 at 12:01 pm CDT

Canada's office of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) will host the 2025 Americas Agriculture and Food Security Forum at Olds College at the same time as the G7 summit on June 15-17.

By Jonah Grignon

U.S. farm groups call Kennedy’s ‘MAHA’ report unscientific, fear-based

May. 23, 2025 at 11:18 am CDT

Several U.S. agriculture groups say the federal Make America Healthy Again report, released Thursday, is fear-based and anti-science. The report takes aim at what U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy has called a crisis of increasing rates of childhood obesity, diabetes, cancer, mental health disorders and other health issues.

By Jonah Grignon

JBS minority shareholders approve dual US-Brazil listing

May. 23, 2025 at 9:54 am CDT

Brazilian meatpacker JBS on Friday secured shareholder support to move ahead with a long-planned dual listing of shares in both the United States and Brazil, it said in a securities filing.

By Reuters

Global animal health body says vaccines needed to protect humans, trade from bird flu

May. 23, 2025 at 9:51 am CDT

Vaccinating more animals against bird flu could help protect public health and keep global trade flowing said the head of the World Organization for Animal Health.

By Reuters Sybille De La Hamaide

Heath MacDonald, left, is sworn in as federal agriculture minister at Rideau Hall in Ottawa May

Carney’s mandate letter makes no mention of agriculture or food

May. 22, 2025 at 3:26 pm CDT

Prime Minister Mark Carney's recent mandate letter made no mention of agriculture or food, instead focusing on economic issues and Canadian sovereignty. Some in the Canadian agriculture industry see potential for action while others wish for explicit commitments.

By Jonah Grignon