Insights and Stories on Inflation

U.N. looks for recipe to tackle global food dysfunction

Sep. 23, 2021 at 8:05 pm CDT

Reuters — Billions of people are overweight, millions are hungry, one third of food is wasted and the way the world produces, processes and consumes food generates one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said on Thursday at the first global summit on the future of food. The […]

Argentina extends beef export cap, stoking farm tensions

Aug. 31, 2021 at 5:11 pm CDT

By Maximilian Heath nicolas-misculin

CBOT weekly outlook: Inflation another major concern for traders

Jul. 14, 2021 at 4:58 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Tensions build over Argentina’s beef export ban

May. 19, 2021 at 1:41 am CDT

By nicolas-misculin

High food prices hurting India’s poor

Nov. 15, 2020 at 5:46 pm CST

By Aftab Ahmed rajendra-jadhav

India’s levy cut on lentils part of balancing act

Jun. 12, 2020 at 7:52 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — To Pulse Canada, the recent move by the Indian government to temporarily reduce the import levy on lentils from 30 to 10 per cent is part of a balancing act between competing interests. Greg Cherewyk, president of Pulse Canada, explained that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “looking after […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Panic buying, lockdowns may drive world food inflation

Mar. 23, 2020 at 8:09 am CDT

Singapore | Reuters — Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grains and oilseeds in key exporting nations, a senior economist at FAO and agricultural analysts said. The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid […]

By Naveen Thukral

CN, CP come in under 2018-19 grain revenue caps

Dec. 30, 2019 at 8:35 pm CST

Changes to federal rail transport rules that took effect in 2018 have put Canada’s big two railways well under their new Prairie grain revenue caps for the 2018-19 crop year. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Monday announced Canadian National Railway (CN) booked 2018-19 Prairie grain revenue of $933,357,710, a figure […]

By GFM Staff

Canadians to spend more on food in 2020, report predicts

Dec. 4, 2019 at 11:09 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canadians will spend two to four per cent more on food in 2020, according to the latest Canada Food Price Report from researchers at Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab and the University of Guelph. The average family in the country will see its total food bill for groceries […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Maduro rebukes Kellogg for leaving Venezuela

May. 15, 2018 at 7:44 pm CDT

Caracas/Valencia | Reuters — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blasted U.S.-based cereal maker Kellogg Co. on Tuesday for pulling out of the country due to the economic crisis and vowed to hand over the company’s factory to workers. At a campaign rally ahead of Sunday’s presidential election, which Maduro is expected […]

By Corina Pons Tibisay Romero

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