Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — U.S. agricultural commodities trader Cargill on Thursday reported a rise in third-quarter profit on stronger results in food ingredients and grain handling, but warned about headwinds from oversupplied grain markets and low commodity prices. The privately-held company is exiting lower-margin operations, including its U.S. pork business, and expanding deeper into food ingredients and […] Read more
Cargill books higher profits, warns of tough markets
From raising hogs to farming shrimp
Who knew it would take five years of red tape before Paul and Tracy Cocchio could convert their hog barns into Ontario’s first shrimp farm?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Walking into Paul and Tracy Cocchio’s barn on a cold Ontario morning feels like a visit to the tropics, and rightly so, because the livestock the Cocchios are raising originate in decidedly warmer parts of the world. You might say the barn is a kind of greenhouse for the animal side of agriculture, with the […] Read more
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