Insights and Stories on Economy

Canada concerned about supply chain issues, watching ports ‘closely’

Oct. 14, 2021 at 3:11 pm CDT

Reuters –– Canada is concerned about the challenges facing global supply chains and is watching the country’s ports very closely, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. Freeland, speaking to reporters in Washington after meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said she was broadly optimistic about the […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures down on big supplies, economic jitters

Jun. 24, 2020 at 8:23 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Election 2019: Ag groups want the parties to pay attention

Sep. 18, 2019 at 8:07 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Trump threatens new tariffs as U.S.-China trade tensions spike again

Aug. 1, 2019 at 3:40 pm CDT

By Andrea Shalal David Lawder

Consider hedging against rate hikes, farmers advised

Jul. 11, 2018 at 3:51 pm CDT

By Terry Fries

Agriculture contributed C$111.9 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2016

Nov. 10, 2017 at 5:05 pm CST

Winnipeg | CNS – A new report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released Friday has pegged agriculture as contributing C$111.9 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2016, which accounted 6.7 per cent of the country’s total GDP. The annual report entitled An Overview of the Canadian Agriculture and AgriFood System, provides […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Green jobs eligible for wage subsidy

Nov. 7, 2016 at 3:37 pm CST

A new Career Focus Green Jobs program is offering wage subsidies to help employers with an environmental focus hire new graduates, a federal release says. The program targets small- and medium-sized businesses to help reduce the cost barriers of hiring new graduates by subsidizing their salary by 50 per cent […]

By Staff

Klassen: Various views on the feeder cattle market

Jul. 27, 2015 at 11:00 am CDT

If you talked to three Western Canadian cattle buyers this week, you probably would receive four different views on the market. Certain auction barns were reflecting an average week-over-week decline of $3 to $5 but feature strings of cattle were back up to historical high prices. Early sales in the season […]

By Jerry Klassen

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