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Prizes put up to develop year-round berry production in Canada

Feb. 8, 2022 at 4:05 pm CST

A philanthropic foundation focused on improving public health now wants to improve diets by finding ways to juice up Canada’s home-grown fruit supplies. The Weston Family Foundation on Tuesday pledged $33 million over six years for what it calls the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a prize challenge pitting ideas against ideas […]

Truckload of northbound produce breaks bad at border

Jan. 29, 2021 at 10:41 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Farmers protest across India against Modi’s farm market reforms

Dec. 8, 2020 at 6:12 pm CST

By Manoj Kumar Nigam Prusty rajendra-jadhav

India considers changing new farm laws after mass protests

Dec. 4, 2020 at 7:58 pm CST

By Mayank Bhardwaj

Peru farm protests grip country, turn deadly

Dec. 3, 2020 at 4:19 pm CST

By Maria Cervantes

India’s Modi refuses to back down on farm reforms despite protests

Nov. 30, 2020 at 3:10 pm CST

New Delhi | Reuters — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday resisted calls for the repeal of farm reforms that have ignited the biggest protests by farmers in years around the national capital, saying they were being misled and that deregulation would benefit them. Thousands of people from the […]

By Sanjeev Miglani

India’s controversial farm bills become law despite protests

Sep. 27, 2020 at 6:15 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s president on Sunday approved three controversial agricultural bills amid nationwide protests by farmers who say the new laws will stunt their bargaining power and instead allow large retailers to have control over pricing. Farmers’ organizations say one of the three laws could lead to […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj Neha Arora

Charred U.S. west’s ‘wet ashtray’ wine grapes left to birds

Sep. 23, 2020 at 2:36 am CDT

Reuters — Heavy ground smoke clouded Hanson Vineyards in Oregon’s picturesque Willamette Valley for more than a week following a Labour Day windstorm that kicked up wildfires across the western United States. Jason Hanson expects his crews may only harvest five tons of grapes, including his Chardonnay and Gamay varieties, […]

By Karl Plume

Indian cabinet minister quits over farm legislation

Sep. 17, 2020 at 3:19 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s minister for food processing resigned on Thursday over her opposition to planned laws to allow farmers to sell produce directly to bulk buyers and make contract farming easier, saying the legislation will hurt millions of the country’s farmers. “Proud to stand with farmers as […]