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U.S. grain firms rejecting GMO crops that lack global approval

By GFM Network News May 6, 2016

Reuters — Across the U.S. Farm Belt, top grain handlers have banned genetically modified crops that are not approved in all major overseas markets, shaking up a decades-old system that used the world’s biggest exporting country as a launchpad for new seeds from companies such as Monsanto. Bold yellow signs from global trader Bunge are […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

World food prices edge up in April

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 5, 2016

Rome | Reuters — World food prices rose slightly in April, up for the third month in a row but they remained almost 10 per cent lower than a year earlier, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket […] Read more

Former Montreal Alouettes quarterback Vince Ferragamo and wife Jodi converted a horse corral to a vineyard on their property in California’s Orange County to start their winery in 2010. (FerragamoWinery.com)

Crops, Grapes, Reuters

Italy’s Ferragamo suing ex-Als QB over same-name winery

By GFM Network News May 4, 2016

Reuters — Salvatore Ferragamo SpA, the Italian luxury goods maker, on Wednesday sued former Montreal Alouettes and Los Angeles Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo, saying he infringed its trademarks by operating his namesake winery in southern California. Consumers are likely to be confused into thinking the Ferragamo Winery and Ferragamo SpA are related, the Italian company […] Read more

Crops

CPS to seek buyer for Sask. farm supply outlet

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 3, 2016

A deal for Agrium’s Crop Production Services (CPS) to buy a crop input retail chain in north-central Saskatchewan will require the company to sell off a retail outlet and a pair of its storage sites. The federal Competition Bureau on Monday announced it has an agreement with CPS over its planned deal to buy six […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

U.S. top court rejects POM Wonderful appeal over ads

By GFM Network News May 2, 2016

Washington | Reuters — Businesses better have good evidence to back up claims of health benefits from their products, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday after the Supreme Court rejected POM Wonderful’s challenge to FTC findings that the juice maker’s advertising was misleading. The U.S. Supreme Court left in place a lower-court ruling […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Cuba backtracks on food reforms as conservatives resist change

By GFM Network News April 30, 2016

Havana | Reuters –– Cuba decided at a secretive Communist Party congress last week to reverse market reforms in food distribution and pricing, according to reports in official media, reflecting tensions within the party about the pace of economic change. President Raul Castro unveiled an ambitious market reform agenda in one of the world’s last […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S., European trade negotiators battle political headwinds

By GFM Network News April 30, 2016

New York | Reuters — Facing deeply entrenched differences and political headwinds, the top negotiators trying to reach a sweeping U.S.-European free trade deal avoided agriculture, public procurement and other thorny issues in talks this week. Instead, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Daniel Mullaney and European Commission lead negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercera said on Friday they […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

Dole under U.S. probe after deadly listeria outbreak

By GFM Network News April 30, 2016

Los Angeles | Reuters — Dole Food Co. Inc. said on Friday the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating a deadly listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to packaged salad products from its processing plant in Springfield, Ohio. Dole, the world’s largest fruit and vegetable producer, said in a statement the agency recently contacted the company and […] Read more

Western bumblebee. (Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Reuters

In risks to bees, study finds not all neonics equal

By GFM Network News April 28, 2016

London | Reuters — A group of chemical insecticides known as neonicotinoids that have been banned in Europe due to fears about potential harm to bees have been found in new research to have very differential risks for bumblebees. Scientists who conducted the research said their findings showed that at least one neonicotinoid in the […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Canada may delay foreign worker limits as packers, farms face squeeze

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News April 28, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada may delay implementing new restrictions on the use of foreign workers as farmers and meat processors warn of severe labour shortages in one of the world’s biggest agricultural exporters, the employment minister said. Employers have reported difficulty finding workers despite a 7.1 per cent unemployment rate. Many Canadians resist jobs […] Read more

GFM Network News

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Other fruit-vegetable

U.S. grain firms rejecting GMO crops that lack global approval

World food prices edge up in April

Italy’s Ferragamo suing ex-Als QB over same-name winery

CPS to seek buyer for Sask. farm supply outlet

U.S. top court rejects POM Wonderful appeal over ads

Cuba backtracks on food reforms as conservatives resist change

U.S., European trade negotiators battle political headwinds

Dole under U.S. probe after deadly listeria outbreak

In risks to bees, study finds not all neonics equal

Canada may delay foreign worker limits as packers, farms face squeeze

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