Reading Time: 2 minutes Ultra-processed foods are a major public health threat that must be urgently addressed, according to a new series of papers authored by 43 global experts in the Lancet medical journal.
Ultra-processed foods are danger to global public health, experts warn
Ukraine’s farms once fed billions but now its soil is starving
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ukraine’s soil may no longer be able to sustain the country’s role as one of the major food producers without urgent action. And this could have consequences that stretch far beyond its borders.
Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls
Reading Time: 3 minutes Packaged food makers and fast-food restaurants may be forced to overhaul more of their products next year as newly approved, appetite-suppressing GLP-1 pills become available in January, analysts say.
Pulse Weekly: Tariffs guide yellow peas in 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tariffs were a major influence on Canadian yellow pea prices in 2025, with levies imposed by China and India. The two countries are Canada’s biggest foreign pulse buyers.
U.K. softens stance on farm tax after months of protests
Reading Time: 2 minutes Britain’s government said on Tuesday it would scale back its plan to raise more tax from farmers, following months of protests since the introduction of an inheritance tax charge on farms was announced in 2024.
US EPA meets with Make America Healthy Again leaders about pesticides, chemicals
Reading Time: 3 minutes Top officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held at least six meetings this month with members of the Make America Healthy Again movement as agency head Lee Zeldin pledges to more closely align with the movement’s agenda, according to four people who attended the meetings.
How to deal with worry this Christmas
Reading Time: 3 minutes Christmas can be hard. For some people, it increases loneliness, grief, hopelessness and family tension, and the festive season has a way of turning ordinary concerns into urgent ones.
Manitoba Co-operator top 25 of 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Manitoba Co-operator is counting down our 25 most popular stories of 2025. Here’s a taste so far, from trade woes to new insight on Manitoba’s wild pig problem
Prairie Wheat Weekly: Modest increases for cash prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Spring wheat and durum cash prices were moderately higher across the Canadian Prairies for the week ended Dec. 19. This was despite losses in Chicago and Kansas City wheat and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada projecting larger all wheat ending stocks for 2025/26. Minneapolis wheat bumped up on the week, lending some support to Canadian cash prices.
Huge crops in South America says analyst
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although there’s a debate over the size of the South American soybean crop, there’s little doubt that it will be an enormous one, said consultant Michael Cordonnier of Soybean and Corn Advisor in Hinsdale, Ill.
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