Insights and Stories on Canada

Beware of Kazakhs wanting to buy seed, agency says

Nov. 25, 2020 at 3:38 pm CST

Western Canadian seed growers, seed retailers and commercial farmers are being urged not to sell seed to Kazakhs or their agents because it breaches plant breeders’ rights rules. “The basic fact is no Canadian breeder has given permission for their genetics to go to Kazakhstan,” Lorne Hadley, executive director of […]

Britain, Canada agree on post-Brexit rollover trade deal

Nov. 22, 2020 at 1:31 am CST

By Amran Abocar Kate Holton

Irritated trade partners push back on China’s coronavirus food tests

Nov. 17, 2020 at 9:09 pm CST

By Dominique Patton emma-farge

Barley trade routes redrawn as China tariff hits Australian farmers

Nov. 16, 2020 at 7:24 pm CST

By Gus Trompiz Jonathan Barrett

Canadian pot producer Aphria to buy U.S. craft brewer

Nov. 4, 2020 at 8:33 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. lifts federal protections for gray wolf

Oct. 29, 2020 at 4:07 pm CDT

Reuters — The Trump administration in the U.S. said Thursday said it will lift Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf, arguing the species had been brought back successfully from the brink of extinction. The move gives states in the continuous United States the authority to manage their local […]

By Nichola Groom

Cannabis-infused drinks fizzle on production, distribution challenges

Oct. 29, 2020 at 12:03 pm CDT

Reuters — Investors pinning hopes on cannabis-infused drinks to propel growth of the legal marijuana industry may have to wait a bit longer, as companies struggle to produce and distribute the highly-sought beverages in a profitable way. Nearly 11 months after regulators allowed their sales, very few brands have been […]

By Shariq Khan

Feds seek feedback on farm worker living conditions

Oct. 28, 2020 at 4:03 am CDT

Improving and standardizing living conditions for temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Canada — specifically, those on Canadian farms — is the subject of a new round of federal consultations. Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough and Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Tuesday announced consultations are now underway until Dec. 22 with “provinces […]

By Dave Bedard

Record-high Canadian canola supplies in commercial pipeline

Oct. 26, 2020 at 8:05 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Visible canola supplies in the Canadian commercial pipeline are sitting at historically high levels, according to Canadian Grain Commission data. A total of 1.75 million tonnes of canola were sitting in commercial hands across Canada during the week ended Oct. 18 — only slightly off the record of […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Grain, oilseed exports running ahead of average

Oct. 16, 2020 at 5:08 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian grain and oilseed exports have left the country at a rapid pace during the first 10 weeks of the 2020-21 crop year, with canola, wheat,and barley movement-to-date all up substantially on the year. Total exports of Canada’s major grains and oilseeds as of Sunday came in at […]