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Canadians to spend more on food in 2020, report predicts

Dec. 4, 2019 at 11:09 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canadians will spend two to four per cent more on food in 2020, according to the latest Canada Food Price Report from researchers at Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab and the University of Guelph. The average family in the country will see its total food bill for groceries […]

U.S. livestock: Live cattle touch seven-month peak on weather woes

Nov. 26, 2019 at 5:48 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

CN strike drags on, hitting grain exports, fertilizer output

Nov. 25, 2019 at 4:37 pm CST

By Allison Lampert Kelsey Johnson

Union says propane shortfalls may be CN’s own making

Nov. 22, 2019 at 8:45 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Propane shortage looms as CN strike hits third day

Nov. 21, 2019 at 5:19 pm CST

By Kelsey Johnson Rod Nickel

Propane-starved East’s grain growers seek end to CN strike

Nov. 20, 2019 at 4:17 pm CST

Farmers fighting through a soggy harvest in Eastern Canada have joined their western counterparts’ call for an end to the strike by Canadian National Railway workers — not to get grain out, but to get propane in. Restoring the supply of propane for Quebec’s farm businesses, in the wake of […]

By GFM Staff

Knowing your wheat’s falling number critical this year

Nov. 18, 2019 at 8:06 pm CST

[UPDATED: Nov. 22, 2019] The ‘harvest from hell’ has resulted in one of the worst years in recent memory for sprout damage. That’s pushed down falling numbers and — since grain buyers have different approaches to handling this issue — increased the need for farmers to know the falling numbers […]

By Allan Dawson

Brazil Amazon deforestation soars to 11-year high

Nov. 18, 2019 at 2:17 pm CST

Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil | Reuters — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data on Monday showed, confirming a sharp increase under the leadership of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. The data from Brazil’s INPE space research agency, which showed […]

By Marcelo Teixeira

U.S. states declare emergencies to help farmers in propane shortage

Nov. 18, 2019 at 2:08 pm CST

Reuters — Regional shortages of propane, which is used for heating homes and barns and by farmers to dry their crops, have led to emergency declarations covering nine U.S. Midwest states amid late harvests of soggy grains. Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin declared state emergencies beginning in late October, […]

By Reuters

Millions of acres of canola freeze, compound ‘harvest from hell’

Nov. 15, 2019 at 7:13 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Heavy snow and rain during harvest on the Canadian Prairies have left several million acres of canola buried until spring, the latest blow in a miserable year that may compound farmer problems into 2020. Canola is renowned as Canada’s most profitable crop, exported to China, Japan […]

By Rod Nickel