Insights and Stories on Food

China to buy more homegrown soybeans for reserves

Mar. 16, 2023 at 1:30 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters — China will step up buying of domestic soybeans by state reserves to encourage farmers to keep planting the crop, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, as Beijing continues to push for greater self-sufficiency in oilseed. China started to increase soybean planting a year ago amid worries […]

Meat lobby says U.S. voluntary label rule could spur trade action

Mar. 7, 2023 at 7:13 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

U.S. demands formal trade talks with Mexico over GMO corn dispute

Mar. 7, 2023 at 12:28 pm CST

By Cassandra Garrison David Lawder

North Korea’s Kim demands more farmland to boost food production

Mar. 2, 2023 at 1:34 pm CST

By Hyonhee Shin

Mexico opens door for GM corn in feed, industrial uses

Feb. 14, 2023 at 8:13 pm CST

By Adriana Barrera Cassandra Garrison

Pulse weekly outlook: Earthquake to have little effect on pulse markets

Feb. 14, 2023 at 4:50 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday last week, taking the lives of more than 40,000 people, may not have a major effect on pulse markets, according to one analyst. Jon Driedger from Leftfield Commodity Research in Winnipeg said that while natural disasters like […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Federal NDP ag critic to handle food inflation file

Feb. 5, 2023 at 6:11 am CST

Canada’s federal New Democrats have appointed their critic for agriculture and agri-food to a new point position on a major issue for the fourth-ranked opposition party. After the House of Commons resumed sitting last Monday (Jan. 30), NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday named Alistair MacGregor, MP for the Vancouver […]

By Dave Bedard

Borderline city hosts interprovincial food trade pilot

Jan. 31, 2023 at 3:55 am CST

The idea of loosening interprovincial trade in certain foods made by provincially-inspected processors will get a major test in one of Canada’s very few province-crossing municipalities. The Saskatchewan, Alberta and federal governments on Jan. 19 announced the start of a two-year pilot project within the limits of Lloydminster, a city […]

By Dave Bedard

Germany considering withdrawal from crop-based biofuels by 2030

Jan. 24, 2023 at 2:26 pm CST

Hamburg | Reuters — Germany’s government is considering proposals to phase out the use of biofuels produced from food or animal feed crops by 2030, the German biofuels industry association (VDB) said on Tuesday, adding the measure could increase carbon emissions. German environment minister Steffi Lemke said Jan. 17 she […]

By Reuters

Bolivia farm region blocks borders, grain transport in protests

Jan. 2, 2023 at 4:51 pm CST

Santa Cruz/La Paz | Reuters — Protesters in Bolivia’s farming region of Santa Cruz are blocking highways out of the province, threatening to snarl the domestic transport of grains and food, as anger simmers following the arrest of local governor Luis Camacho. The region, a stronghold of the conservative opposition […]

By adam-jourdan Daniel Ramos