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U.K. firm to process meats in Canada for Walmart

Plant would be Hilton Foods' first in North America

By Dave Bedard September 20, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes A British-based firm processing proteins for the retail and foodservice sectors plans to set up shop somewhere in Eastern Canada, after reaching a deal to supply meat products to Walmart’s Canadian grocery business. Hilton Food Group announced Thursday it plans to open a new manufacturing plant in that region to supply Walmart Supercentres in Canada […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Dates moved up in dairy sector’s CUSMA compensation calendar

Calculation date will shift to Aug. 31

By Dave Bedard July 12, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Changes are being made to the timetable for the remainder of the program compensating Canada’s dairy farmers for market share lost to recent multilateral trade deals. The Dairy Direct Payment Program (DDPP), which issued $1.75 billion over four payments from 2019 to 2023 to compensate for the Canada-European Union (CETA) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade […] Read more

File photo of a field of soybeans under turbines at southern Manitoba’s St. Joseph wind farm. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Soybeans

Sustainable soybean program underway

Food-grade, IP soy growers showing interest in verification, Soy Canada says

By Dave Bedard April 5, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes A new voluntary program spearheaded by Canada’s soybean value-chain group is expected to help Canadian soy growers seeking a sustainability mark for their goods. Soy Canada on March 28 announced the rollout of Sustainable Canadian Soy, a program it said will be available for the 2023 growing season. Exporters and handlers who supply customers that […] Read more

General, Weather

Feds open up consultations for sustainable ag strategy

Producer groups to have reps on advisory committee

By Dave Bedard December 20, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government has enlisted farm groups on the ground floor of consultations toward development of a long-term strategy to “amplify” the adoption and use of sustainable practices in agriculture over the next year. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Dec. 12 announced the launch of public consultations on strategy development, running from now through March […] Read more

Crops

Regenerative agriculture demo starts a conversation

Farmers and customers meet to view intercrop combinations and to talk about a common definition of sustainability

By Julienne Isaacs October 31, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes On a sunny day in early August, farmers, industry members and researchers gathered at Avena Foods’ pulse and oat facility in Rowat, Sask., to talk about the benefits of regenerative agricultural practices. They toured experimental intercropping plots, visited varietal test plots and heard about innovations adopted by farmers in the area to boost sustainability on […] Read more

Investors are increasingly focusing on links between a healthy food system and efforts to fight global warming and preserve biodiversity. Photo: fotografixx/Getty Images

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.N.-backed investors set fresh targets in sustainable food shift

By Simon Jessop October 27, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters – A U.N.-backed group of global financial institutions including Dutch lender Rabobank on Thursday set out a series of company specific environmental and social targets aimed at helping drive a shift to a more sustainable food system. Set by a group of 11 firms in the Good Food Finance Network, including Nuveen Natural Capital […] Read more

Guide Business

Sustainability must be farmer-driven

Others talk about sustainability but do precious little about it. Farmers actually get it done

By Gerald Pilger July 27, 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutes It seems I cannot pick up a farm paper, click on an ag website, listen to a newscast about food, or attend a workshop without hearing about the need for farm sustainability. For 106 years my family has farmed the same land. That’s a lot longer than most of the local businesses that we purchase […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Walmart stakes big claim on Canadian sustainable beef

Retailer pledges to take over 680 tonnes in 2022

By Dave Bedard October 8, 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian arm of the world’s biggest retailer has put a number to its previous commitment to source certified-sustainable beef for its grocery business. Walmart Canada on Thursday announced it has committed to buy 1.5 million pounds of beef sourced from farms and ranches certified to Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) standards over the […] Read more

EU flags in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. (Jorisvo/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Reuters, Weather

EU countries approve deal to overhaul farming subsidies

Subsidies to focus on sustainability, 'eco-schemes'

By Kate Abnett June 28, 2021

Reading Time: 2 minutes Brussels | Reuters — European Union countries on Monday gave the green light to reforms of the bloc’s huge farming subsidy program, after a three-year battle over rules to make it greener and support smaller farms. Negotiators representing the EU’s 27 countries and European Parliament struck the deal on Friday to reform the Common Agricultural […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery, Poultry/Eggs

Feather sector’s on-farm upgrade program underway

Applications now being accepted for funding

By Dave Bedard June 1, 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal free trade compensation program to help Canada’s poultry and egg producers pay for on-farm upgrades, renovations and improvements is now taking applications. The $646.8 million, 10-year Poultry and Egg On-Farm Investment Program (PEFIP) is now formally underway, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced Monday. Each eligible Canadian producer is entitled to an amount proportional […] Read more

Daily Network News

Spain alerts WHO of swine flu virus believed to have been transmitted between people

China suspends some agricultural tariffs on Canada

Wheat breeding system no longer works, Canadian Wheat Research Coalition report says

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