Insights and Stories on Supply Chains

British milk sours amid labour crisis

Oct. 6, 2021 at 5:03 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Some British dairy farmers have been forced to destroy tens of thousands of litres of milk due to rising costs, labour shortages and an acute deficit of truck drivers which has strained supply chains to breaking point, farmers said. A post-Brexit shortage of workers, exacerbated by […]

Canada’s CPPIB to buy major U.S. port terminal operator

Sep. 29, 2021 at 4:16 pm CDT

By David French Sohini Podder

Pulse weekly outlook: Pulse Canada CEO retiring

Mar. 10, 2021 at 3:56 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Packaged-food majors see sales spike in pandemic

May. 14, 2020 at 1:10 am CDT

By Martinne Geller

G20 ag ministers say COVID-19 measures shouldn’t disrupt food supply

Apr. 21, 2020 at 5:47 pm CDT

By Reuters

Burnett on Markets: Global grain stocks offer false sense of food security

Apr. 17, 2020 at 8:15 pm CDT

The economic parallels from the COVID-19 epidemic are quickly changing from comparisons to the recent financial crisis in 2008-09 to the Great Depression. My parents and grandparents lived through the Depression and it did have many impacts on their everyday lives. The main symbol of the Depression-era mentality was the […]

By Bruce Burnett

How COVID-19 is upending global food supply chains

Apr. 3, 2020 at 8:51 pm CDT

Satara/Singapore/London | Reuters — In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows. It’s not a treat. They can either feed their crops to animals or let them spoil. And other […]

By Naveen Thukral Nigel Hunt rajendra-jadhav

Fraser: What will be the long-term impact of COVID-19?

Mar. 12, 2020 at 3:05 pm CDT

As developments around the COVID-19 coronavirus change rapidly, I can’t help but speculate on the longer-term effects of it. By now, much has been made of the economic impact it — alongside the Saudi Arabia-Russia oil trade war — will have on global economies. While it’s guesswork to estimate the […]

By D.C. Fraser

Bunge moves from regional to global operating model

May. 9, 2019 at 4:27 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. agricultural commodities trader Bunge on Wednesday overhauled its global operations and named a new chief financial officer in the latest shake-up for the 200-year-old company hard hit by a years-long grain market downturn. The moves come as Bunge reported a stronger-than-expected first-quarter profit due to […]

By Karl Plume

Trump to slap more tariffs on Chinese goods

Sep. 17, 2018 at 8:25 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters | Updated Sept. 18, 2018 — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will impose 10 per cent U.S. tariffs on about US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports, but he spared smart watches from Apple and Fitbit and other consumer products such as bicycle helmets and […]

By David Lawder Jeff Mason

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