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Producers aren’t panicking over tariffs and trade threats

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) surveyed its members this spring to get a sense of…

June 26, 2025

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May 20, 2025

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What do you want to know before voting in Canada’s federal election?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia is dedicated to covering the 2025 federal election with your interests as farmers as…

March 26, 2025

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News, Reuters

Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls

By Jessica DiNapoli, Reuters, Waylon Cunningham 9 hours ago

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.

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Markets, News, Peas, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: Tariffs guide yellow peas in 2025

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 1 day ago

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.

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U.K. softens stance on farm tax after months of protests

By Muvija M, Reuters, William Schomberg 1 day ago

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.

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US EPA meets with Make America Healthy Again leaders about pesticides, chemicals

By Leah Douglas, Reuters 1 day ago

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.

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How to deal with worry this Christmas

By The Conversation via Reuters Connect 1 day ago

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.

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Manitoba Co-operator top 25 of 2025

By Alexis Stockford 2 days ago

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

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Cereals, Markets, News, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Modest increases for cash prices

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 2 days ago

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.

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Cereals, Corn, Markets, News, Soybeans

Huge crops in South America says analyst

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 5 days ago

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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CPKC overshoots grain revenue entitlement, CN stays in bounds

By Geralyn Wichers 5 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway Company (CPKC) exceeded its grain revenue cap for 2025 and will face a penalty, the Canadian Transportation Agency said on Friday.

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Pork imports to drop after 2026 as Philippines ramps up hog repopulation drive

By Reuters 5 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Philippines’ agriculture ministry expects pork imports to drop five per cent in 2027 and by another five per cent in 2028 as it ramps up efforts to restore pig stocks to pre-African swine fever (ASF) levels, a senior official said on Friday.

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