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A view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
General, Reuters

Police reopen Ambassador Bridge

Bridge reopened following search for explosives

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Updated, Oct. 4 — Toronto | Reuters –– Canadian police reopened a major road bridge between Canada and the U.S. after largely shutting it down for hours on Monday to search for possible explosives in a vehicle, resulting in long delays for truckers at the busiest international crossing in North America. The Canada Border Services […] Read more
“We try to make it easy for farmers,” says Food Bank Canada’s Tania Little. Donors range from big marketing boards to individual producers.
Guide Business

Selling food donations

Lots of smart thinking is getting put into projects that deliver more donations to Canada’s food banks. Along with food processors and community donors, farmers are playing a proud role, but there’s room for more

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Tania Little has deep gratitude for the support that farmers and farm groups give to Food Banks Canada. As chief development and partnership officer at FBC, it is Little’s job to connect sources of quality surplus food with the 4,700 agencies in the Canadian food bank network. “Farmers are very generous at heart … they […] Read more
File photo of piglets grazing in a U.K. pasture. (Grandbrothers/iStock/Getty Images)
Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Britain facing mass cull of pigs due to butcher shortage

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Reading Time: 2 minutes London | Reuters — Britain’s farming industry has warned that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues visas to allow more butchers into the country. An acute shortage of butchers and slaughterers in the meat processing industry has been exacerbated by COVID-19 and Britain’s post-Brexit immigration […] Read more
The Garden City container terminal at Savannah is operated by Ports America on behalf of the Georgia Ports Authority. (Photo courtesy Georgia Ports Authority)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

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

Canada Pension Plan's play furthers its infrastructure push

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy Ports America, one of the largest marine terminal operators in the U.S., from investment firm Oaktree Capital Management. While no valuation was given in the announcement, the deal values Ports America at over US$4 billion, according to two sources […] Read more
(Video screengrab via FirebirdMills.com)
Crops

Ardent Mills to buy further into gluten-free

Company plans deal for North Dakota pulse miller Firebird

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A major North American flour miller plans to stretch its reach further into the gluten-free milling market with a deal for a North Dakota processor. Ardent Mills said Monday it plans to buy the assets of Firebird Artisan Mills, which processes pulses and specialty grains at Harvey, N.D., about 240 km south of Brandon, Man. […] Read more
File photo of a steak sandwich with chimichurri sauce at a street food market in Buenos Aires. (Aleksandr_Vorobev/iStock/Getty Images)
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Argentina to restart beef exports to China after caps lifted

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina on Tuesday said it would once again allow cattle farmers to freely export beef to China, lifting a cap imposed earlier this year that had stoked tensions with the agricultural sector. The government had capped beef exports at 50 per cent of the normal volumes to tamp down fast-rising […] Read more
Saddle up to the tastes of Calgary
Beef Cattle, Guide Business

Saddle up to the tastes of Calgary

Of course Calgary means great beef. More than that, though, for farmers, it’s a taste of the future

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Reading Time: 5 minutes A locally sourced, perfectly aged and superbly cooked Black Angus steak has been the signature item on Calgary restaurant menus for decades. It should come as no surprise. Alberta’s 8,000 beef producers provide half of Canada’s supply. Their five million head outnumber the province’s population, and these animals, renowned for their rich, marbled flavour, thrive […] Read more
Green Party leader Annamie Paul makes an announcement following the federal election, at a park in Toronto on Sept. 27, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Chris Helgren)
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Green Party chief quits

Paul calls leadership stint 'worst period' of her life

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — Annamie Paul announced her resignation as head of Canada’s Green Party on Monday after losing in her own district in last week’s parliamentary election, stepping aside just under a year after becoming the nation’s first Black leader of a mainstream national party. Paul, 48, said she felt she was never truly […] Read more
Production is being fine-tuned at Roquette’s pea processing plant near Portage la Prairie. (Photo courtesy Roquette Canada)
Crops, Peas, Reuters

Roquette warns of price rise in plant-based food market

Prairie drought could cut pea yields 45 per cent

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Reading Time: 1 minute Paris | Reuters — A global surge in pea prices linked to low supplies and growing demand for plant protein will inevitably need to be passed on to customers, including makers of alternative food such as meat-free burgers, French producer Roquette said on Monday. The market for alternative protein has soared in recent years, attracting […] Read more

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