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File photo of the produce section at a Canadian grocery store. (FatCamera/E+/Getty Images)
General, Markets, Reuters

Canada retools inflation baskets with more focus on food, gas

Snowblowers and barbecues in, DVD players out

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s national statistics agency on Tuesday revealed new weights for the basket of goods and services in its Consumer Price Index, giving more prominence to changes in the prices of food and gasoline. The reweighting, which Statistics Canada carries out every year, has historically had only a marginal impact on the […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets

Canada warns VCOOL would sabotage shared Canada-U.S. goals, supply chains

The Canadian government has submitted its views on proposed U.S. food labelling rules

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Proposed U.S. country of origin labelling rules run contrary to mutual Canada and U.S. goals to reduce inflation, improve food security and build resilient supply chains, according to a submission from the Canadian government to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “One of the great strengths of the U.S.-Canada bilateral relationship is the successful integration of […] Read more
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Livestock, Reuters

Canada extends Ukraine tariff-free access

Access to supply-managed sectors tightened

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada on Friday extended Ukraine’s tariff-free access for most goods, but tightened access for eggs, poultry and dairy — sectors protected under the Canadian supply-management system. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said tariff relief for Ukrainian goods such as steel — a temporary measure started a year ago — would continue for […] Read more
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Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. working on limited bird flu vaccination for turkeys

No decision yet made, U.S. official says

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Paris | Reuters — The United States is working on a bird flu vaccination scenario focusing on turkeys in the few states that gather the largest number of turkey farms, a move that would best meet a benefit-cost strategy, its chief veterinary officer said on Tuesday. However, no decision to vaccinate has yet been made, […] Read more
File photo of chicks on a genetic map of a chicken. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Animal health body backs bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic

Vaccination should focus on free-range birds, WOAH chief says

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Paris | Reuters — Governments should consider vaccinating poultry against bird flu, which has killed hundreds of millions of birds and infected mammals worldwide, to prevent the virus from turning into a new pandemic, the head of the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said. The severity of the current outbreak of avian influenza, commonly […] Read more
The Verkhovna Rada building, home to Ukraine’s parliament, in Kiev. (Cia.gov)
Livestock, Reuters

Ukraine lifts barriers to exports of some farm goods

Export licenses were in place to maintain domestic supplies

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine has removed barriers to the export of some agricultural commodities, imposed last year to prevent food shortages, in a bid to boost foreign currency income, its government said on Tuesday. The country introduced export licences in 2022 to protect food supplies after agricultural production was hit by Russia’s invasion. While […] Read more
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Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court upholds California’s pig confinement law

Dissent suggests 'substantial burden against interstate commerce'

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, rejecting an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers. The justices voted 5-4 to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a […] Read more
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Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Avian flu outbreaks climb in Quebec poultry

Thirteen outbreaks reported in province so far in April

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Reading Time: 2 minutes After a relatively quiet March with just one outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic poultry, Quebec has turned up 13 outbreaks so far this month. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency in April has reported detections of high-path avian flu at 13 sites in that province, including: three commercial barns in the regional county […] Read more
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Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. begins testing bird flu vaccines for poultry after record outbreak

Four vaccines to be tested

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government is testing four potential bird flu vaccines for poultry, officials said on Friday, after more than 58 million chickens, turkeys and other birds have died in the nation’s worst outbreak ever. The trials, conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service, are the first step […] Read more
Statistics Canada reports that a total of 25,917 of farms across the country had direct sales in 2020, an increase from five years earlier.
Guide Business, Marketing

Direct farm marketing in your pocket

Direct-to-consumer sales are climbing across Canada, but the small farms at the bottom of the market face some challenges

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Reading Time: 5 minutes We picture them on the sides of roads and highways. We might think of a fruit stand, for example, or maybe we remember a hand-painted sign pointing to a U-pick farm. They’re what we think of when someone says “direct marketing” because they’re the more time-tested ways farmers have bypassed middlemen and retailers to sell […] Read more

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