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A Ben + Florentine restaurant in Ange-Gardien, Que. The breakfast-focused chain, now part of Imvescor, opened its 50th restaurant in November. (BenEtFlorentine.com)

Canadian fast-food, dining firms plan merger

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 12, 2017

A restaurant firm with well known brands in Eastern Canada’s casual dining market is set to merge into a neighbouring firm behind the franchises populating many of Canada’s mall food courts. Montreal-based MTY Food Group announced Tuesday it has a cash-and-stock agreement in place to pick up all outstanding common shares of another Montreal firm, […] Read more

Crops

New Brunswick deputy ag minister retiring

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 23, 2017

New Brunswick’s assistant deputy minister for agriculture will act as the lead bureaucrat for agriculture in the province after the current deputy retires. Premier Brian Gallant on Wednesday named Cathy LaRochelle, assistant deputy minister for both the provincial department of agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries and the department of energy and resource development, as acting deputy […] Read more

Catedral Metropolitana de la Asuncion de Maria, Mexico City. (CIA.gov)

Livestock, Reuters

Canada, Mexico to rebuff U.S. over NAFTA goals

By GFM Network News November 20, 2017

Mexico City | Reuters — Canada and Mexico will rebuff the United States over its demand for tougher NAFTA automotive content rules, top officials said on Monday as negotiations to renew the treaty bogged down with only a few months to go. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to quit NAFTA, which has reshaped the […] Read more

General, Markets

Trade talks a dicey situation, Coyne says

By GFM Network News November 17, 2017

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — With Canada in the midst of negotiations for two different trade agreements, the North American Free Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership, trade concerns are getting muddled, according to Andrew Coyne. “We need to be conscious of diversifying our trade interests beyond just North America. It would be extremely foolish that […] Read more

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

Crops

U.S. study links bumblebee declines to fungicide use

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 17, 2017

A new look at the environmental factors around declining bumblebee populations and ranges points to a less-than-usual suspect: fungicides. “Insecticides work; they kill insects. Fungicides have been largely overlooked because they are not targeted for insects, but fungicides may not be quite as benign — toward bumblebees — as we once thought,” Scott McArt, assistant […] Read more

The new cover of the Real Dirt on Farming was unveiled at the Farm & Food Care Harvest Gala last week. Doing the unveiling was Farm & Food Care chair Brian Gilroy, left, Christine Schoonderwoerd, vice chair, and representing funder Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd., Pierre Petelle, president of CropLife Canada. Farm & Food Care Executive Director Kelly Daynard is at the podium. Photo courtesy Farm and Food Care.

Crops, Livestock

Big four topics remain constant in latest Real Dirt on Farming

By GFM Network News November 10, 2017

The latest edition of the Real Dirt on Farming is out, and it continues to be a printed copy success story in a digital world. There are more than three million copies of the agriculture information resource in print and the demand doesn’t appear to be dropping. Farm & Food Care Ontario creates the publication […] Read more

Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies in degrees Celsius for the week centred on Sept. 27. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Crops, Weather

La Nina could return cold, snowy tradition to Prairies

By GFM Network News October 5, 2017

CNS Canada — The world’s major weather forecasters predict a slightly better than 50 per cent chance that a La Nina weather pattern will occur this fall and winter. Most Prairie farmers could see good things happening if the system does materialize, because La Nina systems tend to bring what many people think of as […] Read more

General, Markets

Metro in ‘advanced’ talks to buy Jean Coutu chain

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 28, 2017

One of Eastern Canada’s major players in the grocery sector is in “advanced discussions” to take up one of the region’s major drugstore chains. Montreal-based Metro Inc. announced Tuesday it’s in “exclusive” talks with the Jean Coutu Group on the possibilities of a cash-and-stock takeover valued in some reports at around $4.5 billion. A non-binding […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

China delays deadline for implementing food import rules

By GFM Network News September 26, 2017

Beijing | Reuters — China plans to delay a deadline for implementing new food import regulations by two years until October 2019, a senior EU official said on Tuesday, following a lobbying effort by Europe and the U.S. amid concerns about disruption to trade. The extension comes just days before the new rules, which are […] Read more

Expansion-minded Jollibee opened its first-ever Canadian outlet in Winnipeg at the end of 2016. (Dave Bedard photo)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Philippines’ Jollibee eyes deals to grow

By GFM Network News September 22, 2017

Manila/Singapore | Reuters — Filipino billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong, who has built Jollibee Foods Corp. into a near-4,000 store purveyor of sweet-style spaghetti, burgers and fried chicken, is looking to buy existing brands in mature markets to help fuel future growth. Dominant at home, where Jollibee has 1,000 eponymous stores welcoming diners with its smiling […] Read more

Daily Network News

Iran says Strait of Hormuz open as Trump sees deal ‘soon’ to end war

Agriculture groups welcome seed, fertilizer approval bill

AAFC projects tighter canola stocks for 2026-27

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