Insights and Stories on Politics

Mar. 7, 2025 at 3:13 pm CST

Glacier FarmMedia – With a driving distance 131 kilometres south of Manitoba’s southern border, the recently announced Agristo potato processing plant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, should be exciting news for the province’s potato producers. That’s assuming the normal trade landscape though. The new reality, where U.S. president Donald Trump […]

By Jeff Melchior

Mar. 3, 2025 at 8:34 am CST

Federal agriculture minister Lawrence MacAulay says he won't seek reelection in the coming election.

By Gord Gilmour

Feb. 4, 2025 at 9:31 am CST

Chicago | Reuters – Grains merchant Archer-Daniels-Midland ADM.N reported a drop in fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday, pressured by weak oilseed crush margins and uncertainty over U.S. biofuel policy, and said it would be laying off up to 700 employees globally this year. Chicago-based ADM said it aimed to cut costs […]

By Karl Plume

Jan. 24, 2025 at 9:42 am CST

Ranching in southern Alberta can be divided into two eras. One before the fence, and the one that came to stay, after the fences. From D. Larraine Andrews’s book, Ranching Under the Arch: “Responding to the new lease legislation, four corporate ranches, dubbed the Patriarchs, arrive under open range practices dependent on […]

By Dr. Ron Clarke

Jan. 16, 2025 at 3:29 pm CST

With Donald Trump set to become President of the United States on Jan. 20, uncertainty continues to swirl about his threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all goods the U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico as early as that Monday. Should Trump press ahead with his levies, the Canadian dollar would be caught up in the collateral damage.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm