Reading Time: < 1 minute Lentils and peas will be among those pulse crops facing challenges not only in January, but also for the rest of the 2025/26 marketing year and possibly beyond that, said Marlene Boersch of Mercantile Consulting Venture Inc. in Winnipeg.
Pulse Weekly: Lentils, peas facing challenges
EU summons farm ministers to secure Mercosur deal support
Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Union has convened EU agriculture ministers for last-minute talks on Wednesday to convince Italy and other wavering member countries to sign up to a contentious free trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur.
Major Brazilian grain traders quit Amazon conservation pact
Reading Time: 2 minutes A lobby group for Brazilian grain trading and crushing firms has told farming state Mato Grosso that it and many of its members are quitting a nearly 20-year-old pact protecting the Amazon basin from deforestation driven by soy farming.
Grocery code of conduct takes full effect
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canada Grocery Code, developed to promote transparency and fairness in the sector, took full effect on New Year’s Day.
Tyson Foods settles U.S. beef price-fixing lawsuit for $82.5 million
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tyson Foods has agreed to pay $82.5 million (C$113.3 million) to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by grocers and other businesses that accused the meat and poultry giant of conspiring to inflate U.S. beef prices by restricting supply.
Consumers not confused by plant protein ‘burgers’ or ‘milk’, research suggests
Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers in Europe have long expressed concerns that plant-based substitutes could threaten traditional farming practices. However, research suggests that consumers aren’t confused by the terminology.
ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026
Reading Time: 2 minutes When canola trading begins returning to normal come Jan. 5, the oilseed’s futures are likely to fall back, said Tony Tryhuk, trader with RBC Dominion securities in Winnipeg.
Italy crafts lab-grown snacks with fruit residues, plant cells and a 3D printer
Reading Time: 2 minutes Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process into ‘pastries’ with high nutritional content.
China imposes curbs on beef imports to protect domestic industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes China will impose an added 55 per cent tariff on beef imports that exceed quota levels from key supplier countries including Brazil, Australia and the U.S. in a move to protect a domestic cattle industry slowly emerging from oversupply.
Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity
Reading Time: 4 minutes London, Ont., adopted Canada’s first stand-alone Urban Agriculture Strategy in 2017. Yet, almost eight years later, many of the strategy’s goals remain unrealized.
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