Insights and Stories on Food

Food, farming, forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, UN says

Apr. 6, 2022 at 1:53 am CDT

Reuters — Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations’ climate panel. But the changes are unlikely to happen unless governments act to spur them along, […]

Ukraine war already impacting food security, U.N. agency warns

Mar. 18, 2022 at 2:09 am CDT

By Maytaal Angel

G7 ag ministers urge end to food export curbs as prices surge

Mar. 11, 2022 at 6:43 pm CST

By Reuters

AGT building oat milling plant in Saskatchewan

Mar. 4, 2022 at 10:49 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Loblaw beats estimates for quarterly revenue

Feb. 24, 2022 at 6:46 pm CST

By Reuters

ADM releases alternative protein outlook for 2022

Feb. 9, 2022 at 4:53 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Major U.S. agribusiness ADM released a report Tuesday identifying the seven biggest trends in the alternative protein market, ranging from creating new protein sources from fungi to making plant-based meat substitutes more affordable and palatable to the general public. The seven trends in the report were: introduction of […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Canary seed prices likely to be good in 2022

Jan. 31, 2022 at 4:22 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Prices for canary seed spiked to all-time new highs and then pulled well back as the Prairie winter set in, according to David Nobbs of Purely Canada Foods in Saskatoon. Nobbs explained prices were on a rollercoaster in 2021, starting out at around 30 cents per pound only […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Vaccine mandate to lead to inflation, empty shelves, trucking executives say

Jan. 20, 2022 at 5:41 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian consumers should soon see higher prices and some empty shelves in supermarkets and other retail outlets because of disruptions stemming from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, top trucking executives warned this week. The mandate, imposed by Ottawa to help curb the spread of […]

By Steve Scherer

Scoular fires up flax processing near Regina

Jan. 12, 2022 at 8:18 pm CST

U.S. grain handler Scoular’s Canadian arm has opened a new flax processing operation at its site just southeast of Regina, into what it describes as a record-strong flax market. Scoular Canada on Wednesday announced the opening of its “high-speed” flax line at Richardson, Sask., where it already processes and cleans […]