Trade

Skippy peanut butter maker Hormel Foods cut its annual sales forecast on Wednesday, hurt by lower commodity prices and a production disruption at its Planters brand manufacturing facility in Virginia…

The union representing workers at Canada’s two main rail companies said on Friday it had filed a four court challenges against a ruling by the country’s industrial labor board that…

The Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) hosted the 3rd 2024 triannual, trilateral meeting with its North American counterparts, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Ganaderas (CNOG)…

Like workers across the country, small business owners, including farmers, work hard throughout their lives to build up savings to eventually take a well-deserved retirement   by Bradlee Whidden –…

At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside   by Mary…

The General Manager of Manitoba Pork says Canada’s own regulatory system is making its farmers less competitive internationally and hampering their ability to provide the world with food   by…

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says it has taken down picket lines at Canadian National Railway Co. and its workers will begin returning to work on Friday   The Canadian…

Canada’s labor minister will meet with the country’s two main railway companies and the Teamsters union in Montreal on Tuesday and Calgary on Wednesday to try to avert a crippling…

Russian pork producers are aiming to capture 10% of China’s pork import market in the coming years from a standing start, seeking to take advantage of trade tensions between the…

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. has named Deepak Bhandari as chief financial officer of its pork business, which it plans to spin off as an independent, publicly traded company    The…

The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers’ reluctance to test their animals and risk the economic consequences of a positive…

Extreme weather events like fires, floods, heat waves and droughts pose an increasing risk to Canada’s food supply chain, putting pressure on prices all the way to the grocery store…

On the record: A Q&A conversation with Dr. David Anderson   Q. Texas is the biggest beef-producing state in the country. How have ranchers here been doing? We’ve had some…

JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, said divisions that process chicken and pigs lifted its results, including poultry unit Pilgrim’s Pride, JBS USA Pork in the U.S., and Seara in…

Reductions in the prevalence of PRRS, Porcine deltacoronavirus and PED highlight the Swine Health Information Center’s August eNewsletter.   by Bruce Cochrane – Farmscape.ca   As part of its August…

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. reported a loss of $26.2 million in its latest quarter compared with a loss of $53.7 million a year earlier as it prepares to spin off…

This year’s Food Day Canada, marked the 21st anniversary of late University of Guelph Food Laureate and Member of the Order of Canada, Anita Stewart, launching the event to celebrate…

Maritime provinces the last part of Canada to get a beef cattle market insurance program  by Rebekah Houter – CBC News For eight years, New Brunswick farmer Trevor Welch pushed for…