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Brazilian antitrust agency approves Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

By GFM Network News February 7, 2018

Brasilia | Reuters — Brazilian antitrust agency Cade on Wednesday approved Bayer’s proposed takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto without requiring further asset sales beyond a global proposal announced last October. Cade’s commissioners voted 4-2 in favour of the tie-up under an agreement, negotiated between the companies and global antitrust agencies, that included the sale […] Read more

Crops, Grapes, Reuters

Alberta halts B.C. wine purchases in pipeline feud

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 6, 2018

Reuters — Alberta struck back at neighbouring British Columbia on Tuesday, halting purchases of that province’s wines in retaliation for its potentially holding up expansion of a crude pipeline. B.C. proposed rules last week to temporarily block increased oil shipments through the province, adding another hurdle to Kinder Morgan Canada’s planned $7.4 billion Trans Mountain […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Nutrien sees demand growth cooling, margins shrinking

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 5, 2018

Reuters — Nutrien, the Canadian fertilizer and farm supply dealer created from the merger of Agrium and PotashCorp this year, said it expected demand growth for potash in China and India to cool down in 2018. Nutrien, the world’s biggest fertilizer company by capacity, also said higher input costs would shrink nitrogen and phosphate margins. […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Ontario processing vegetable contract compromise reached

By GFM Network News February 5, 2018

The Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers marketing board believes it has found a compromise to an imposed regulation that would have gutted grower contract protection. Why it matters: Farmers had contract security of two years previously, but new regulations would have taken that down to none — and processors could have dropped growers whenever they wished. […] Read more

Jim Clark, chair of the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission. (John Greig photo)

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Ontario’s processing vegetable growers in new regulatory reality

By GFM Network News February 5, 2018

The only way is forward. That’s what Ontario’s processing vegetable growers heard at their annual meeting from the chair of the group that regulates farm marketing in the province. That doesn’t mean some farmers didn’t still question the province’s move to fire the board of the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers (OPVG) and its staff in […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Bayer offers asset sales for EU approval of Monsanto deal

By GFM Network News February 5, 2018

Brussels/Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer has offered to sell seeds and pesticides businesses to try to address EU competition concerns over its US$63.5 billion bid for U.S. rival Monsanto. The proposed remedies “are very significant and we are confident they fully address the European Commission’s concerns,” the German company said in a statement on Monday. […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Ocean Spray to buy Quebec cranberry processor

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 5, 2018

Quebec cranberry processor Atoka Cranberries is set to become an arm of the U.S.-based cranberry grower co-op Ocean Spray. Massachussetts-based Ocean Spray on Friday announced it would buy the Atoka processing plant at Manseau, Que., about 70 km east of Trois-Rivieres, along with the Atoka brand from berry producer Canneberges Bieler. Financial terms of the […] Read more

General

Le Bulletin marks 100th anniversary

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 2, 2018

Canada’s oldest francophone farm publication on Friday marked its 100th birthday with an updated look and a new theme for the year. Le Bulletin des agriculteurs — now owned and published by Glacier FarmMedia, operator of this website — recently released its January 2018 issue under the theme “100 ans et tourne vers l’avenir” (100 […] Read more

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a town hall meeting Jan. 10 in Hamilton. (PM.gc.ca)

General, Markets, Reuters

Trudeau talks tough on NAFTA, repeats he could walk away

By GFM Network News February 2, 2018

Nanaimo, B.C. | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a tough line on NAFTA on Friday, repeating that he could walk away if he was not happy with talks to modernize a pact the U.S. contends needs major changes. “The negotiations are complex and challenging … I’ve said many times, we are not […] Read more

Campbell Soup Co. plans to close its 87-year-old Toronto soup plant by mid-2019. (Campbell Soup Co. via BusinessWire)

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Moving freight to get more expensive for food companies

By GFM Network News February 2, 2018

Reuters — U.S. food companies called out rising freight costs as a reason for lower profit margins in the holiday quarter, with more pain seen in 2018 as a dearth of drivers and higher diesel prices make it even more expensive to transport products to stores. Hershey, Mondelez International, J.M. Smucker and Campbell Soup said […] Read more

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

GFM Network News

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

Other fruit-vegetable

Brazilian antitrust agency approves Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

Alberta halts B.C. wine purchases in pipeline feud

Nutrien sees demand growth cooling, margins shrinking

Ontario processing vegetable contract compromise reached

Ontario’s processing vegetable growers in new regulatory reality

Bayer offers asset sales for EU approval of Monsanto deal

Ocean Spray to buy Quebec cranberry processor

Le Bulletin marks 100th anniversary

Trudeau talks tough on NAFTA, repeats he could walk away

Moving freight to get more expensive for food companies

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