Politics & Science

Shortage of skilled workers, product diversity and consumer behavior that is difficult to assess – the meat and protein industry is facing major challenges      It is therefore all…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge by two national farming groups to California’s Proposition 12, a Health & Safety Code amendment that bans the sale…

The United States and Japan on Thursday announced an agreement that will allow American farmers and ranchers to meet Japan’s growing demand for U.S. beef and lowers the chances of…

Ukraine’s farmers now have the fifth-largest army in Europe — or so goes a dark joke on the internet, a reference to all the captured Russian military equipment they’ve towed off the battlefield…

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP.TO) will lock out its employees in 72 hours if there is no agreement with a union, the company said on Wednesday, a move that would potentially…

As demand grows for more efficient and sustainable methods of meat production, Ben Kop, Food Technologist at GEA, one of the largest food system suppliers, explains how the latest industrial…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could force some livestock farmers in the Midwest to pay double for animal feed, a tight enough squeeze to push farms out of business, farmers and…

Statement on the invasion of Ukraine by armed forces of the Russian Federation    We, the G7 Agriculture Ministers and the Commissioner for Agriculture of the EU, met today in…

Memory can be fuzzy. I remember a bright, crisp winter day. Photographs tell me the sky was the more usual Moscow grey, with puddles on the pavement suggesting it might…

Soaring grain prices in the wake of Russia’s attack on Ukraine are hurting Brazilian meatpackers, but trade disruptions facing Ukrainian and Russian meat producers may be an opportunity to boost…

The Governments of Canada and Ontario are investing $900,000 through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership to launch an innovative tool to connect meat and poultry farmers with abattoirs that have available…

Cargill is excited to announce that – starting now – Canadian beef producers audited to the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef(CRSB)’s Certified Sustainable Beef Framework will have more than one…

Canada ratcheted up pressure on Russia on Tuesday for its invasion of Ukraine by shutting ports to Russian-owned ships and saying that holdings of all Russian oligarchs and companies in…

The Director of Risk Management with HAMS Marketing Services is advising pork producers to focus on risk management strategies amid the market volatility being created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

Escalating tensions between global crop heavyweights Russia and Ukraine are likely to force wheat, corn and sunflower oil buyers to seek alternative shipments, driving up world food prices already near…

Protein Industries Canada announced a co-investment into the second phase of Canada’s National Index on Agri-Food Performance, alongside lead partners Pulse Canada and the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS)…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to end protests that have shut some U.S. border crossings and paralyzed parts of the capital…

North America’s busiest trade link reopened for traffic late Sunday evening, ending a six-day blockade, Canada Border Services Agency said, after Canadian police cleared the protesters fighting to end COVID-19…

Canada will seek to join the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to be included in consultations as part of the European Union’s dispute with China at the World…

On news that Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act has been introduced for first reading in the House of Commons, the Agriculture Carbon Alliance…