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A report last week from the chair of the World Trade Organization’s agriculture negotiations committee yields nothing positive for Canada’s supply-managed farm sectors, nor the Canadian Wheat Board, those groups’ farmer spokesmen say. The committee chairman, New Zealand’s WTO ambassador David Walker, on Thursday reported on consultations he’d undertaken on 10 categories of issues with […] Read more

Food, beverage and household products companies have been pressured for months by rising commodity costs and their stocks have paid the price, but Kimberly-Clark Corp. showed on Monday things could be even worse. “I think it is going to be really tough for a lot of these companies to post great quarters,” said James Tierney, […] Read more

Inflows of private capital in agriculture worldwide are expected to more than double to around $5 billion to $7 billion in two years as rising food prices spur investments in farm land and production facilities. Investors from the United States and Europe are looking at South America for growing more feed grains, corn and soybeans, […] Read more

Nearly a decade worth of work to reach a world trade deal is on the verge of “failure,” World Trade Organization director General Pascal Lamy said Saturday in a plea for countries to rise above their own narrow interests for the good of the global economy. “The WTO system is in grave risk of not […] Read more