Insights and Stories on Food

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

Nov. 17, 2020 at 9:09 pm CST

Beijing/Geneva | Reuters — Major food-producing countries are growing increasingly frustrated with China’s scrutiny of imported products and are calling on it to stop aggressive testing for the coronavirus, which some say is tantamount to a trade restriction. China says it has found the virus on the packaging of products […]

FCC identifies export, market opportunities for Canadian food

Nov. 17, 2020 at 3:23 pm CST

By Allan Dawson

High food prices hurting India’s poor

Nov. 15, 2020 at 5:46 pm CST

By Aftab Ahmed rajendra-jadhav

Louis Dreyfus to gain first outside investor

Nov. 11, 2020 at 4:03 pm CST

By Gus Trompiz

Food retail order boom may ease after big quarter, Conagra says

Oct. 1, 2020 at 4:46 pm CDT

By Reuters

Feds pondering more self-reliance in Canada’s food

Sep. 28, 2020 at 1:22 am CDT

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is looking for ways to make Canada’s food supply more autonomous. In an interview Thursday, Bibeau pointed to her minority Liberal government’s pledge in the throne speech to further support the food value chain. That could mean a review of food infrastructure across the country, according […]

By D.C. Fraser

Olymel’s Red Deer plant holds at one COVID case

Aug. 20, 2020 at 7:54 pm CDT

A production line employee at Olymel’s hog slaughter plant at Red Deer, Alta. remains the facility’s lone COVID-19 case after her contacts at the plant tested negative for the virus, the company says. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec ag co-operative Sollio, confirmed the lone COVID-19 case at its […]

By Dave Bedard

Feds line up projects for surplus food program

Aug. 14, 2020 at 1:22 am CDT

The federal government has lined up eight projects to source and distribute perishable produce, meat, eggs and seafood piling up across Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the federal pandemic response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in early May that Ottawa would budget $50 million for a […]

By Dave Bedard

Mexico to phase out use of glyphosate

Aug. 13, 2020 at 2:56 am CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico will gradually phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate by the time the current administration ends in late 2024, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday, following a ministerial spat over the product. Acknowledging differences between his agriculture and environment ministries over the […]

By Reuters

Louis Dreyfus adds venture capital unit

Jun. 18, 2020 at 1:59 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — Agricultural commodities trader Louis Dreyfus Co. has launched a venture capital program to invest in food and farming firms while also announcing a change of head for its innovation business. “Over the coming months, we will invest in early-stage companies with the potential to transform the […]

By Reuters

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