bread Archives - Grainews

Books worth cooking from, part 2: My Thali

First We Eat: How a meal can centre around a starch, rather than a protein surrounded by sides

By dee Hobsbawn-Smith January 6, 2025

You’ll recall that in my previous column, I posed the question of how many cookbooks a home cook really needs, and which new ones are worth buying or borrowing. Part of my research for this month’s column was to peruse the shortlist of nominees for the 2024 Taste Canada book awards. Several books appealed, but […] Read more

The total settlement includes a cash payment of $404 million and $96 million that has already been paid through the “Loblaw Card program.”

News

Loblaw and parent company to pay out $500 million in bread price fixing settlement

By Geralyn Wichers July 26, 2024

Grocery giant Loblaw (Loblaw Companies Limited) and parent company George Weston Limited announced yesterday a $500 million settlement had been reached concerning their involvement in a bread price-fixing scandal.

An air-fryer grilled cheese and ham sandwich. (Dempsters.ca)

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Canada Bread fined $50 million over price-fixing

'Leniency' settlement follows breadmaker's guilty plea

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 22, 2023

A storied Canadian producer of bread and bakery products has a month to pay a $50 million fine for price-fixing in an ongoing federal probe which still has eyes on several major retailers. Ontario’s Superior Court on Wednesday sentenced Toronto-based Canada Bread Co. after the company pled guilty to four counts of fixing bread prices […] Read more

Farm Life

Perfecting panettone

First We Eat: Patience is required to make this classic Italian bread, but it’s worth the time and effort

By dee Hobsbawn-Smith February 17, 2023

Panettone is the Armani of sourdough, a tall, tender, airy dome garnished with raisins and candied citrus, sometimes glazed with chocolate. Complex and subtle, it is immensely popular in Italy and around the world. Making panettone is a patient multi-day process, which may be why so many Italians buy theirs. But it’s worth it, in […] Read more

Crops

Flatbread firm FGF buys Weston Foods bakery business

Weston selling to focus on retail, real estate

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 28, 2021

The parent company for Canadian grocery and retail giant Loblaw is taking a major step out of the baked goods business. George Weston Ltd. announced Oct. 26 it would sell its Weston Foods fresh and frozen bakery businesses to an arm of Toronto-based bakery firm FGF Brands for $1.2 billion. The company expects to close […] Read more

A sharply smaller spring wheat harvest due to drought may force bakers to change how they work with flour. Photo: DanielBendjy/E+/Getty Images

Cereals, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Millers, bakers fret as drought withers North America’s spring wheat

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News August 5, 2021

Reuters – Millers and bakers are draining wheat reserves and paying more for spring wheat used in baking, as drought shrivels crops across the Canadian Prairies and northern U.S. Plains that produce more than half of the world’s supply. U.S. and Canadian farmers are bracing for a sharply smaller spring wheat harvest due to the […] Read more

Farm Life, FarmLife

Hands-on food

First We Eat: As we all spend more time at home why not try making your own pasta?

By dee Hobsbawn-Smith May 29, 2020

Before the pandemic, I spent an afternoon at my neighbour Sharon’s house, teaching her how to make pasta. Sharon and I drank wine and told stories as we cooked, although she stopped talking during her first effort at feeding a strap of dough into the pasta maker. When she caught the first handful of noodles […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT weekly outlook: Wheat futures underpinned for now

However, traders still watching headlines

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News March 26, 2020

MarketsFarm — U.S. wheat futures have climbed higher over the past week, with the largest gains in Chicago Board of Trade soft wheat, as global uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic provided some support. However, that uncertainty could also makes predicting market trends rather difficult, according to an analyst. “All of my comments come with a […] Read more

CBOT May 2020 wheat with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat climbs on global demand for bread

By GFM Network News March 26, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures surged on Wednesday, with the May contract on the Chicago Board of Trade hitting a two-month high on a mix of technical buying and global demand for bread as the coronavirus prompts consumer stockpiling, analysts said. Corn futures closed modestly higher while soybean futures turned lower. CBOT May […] Read more

Ardent Mills’ milling facility at Saskatoon. (ArdentMills.com)

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters

North America’s millers, bakers scramble to satisfy bread binge

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News March 24, 2020

Chicago/Winnipeg | Reuters — North American flour mills and bakeries are rushing to boost production as the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus leads to consumer stockpiling of staples such as bread and pasta. The virus’ spread prompted orders to stay at home in some U.S. states, including New York, California and Illinois last week, following […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on screwworm news

Trade mission heads for Japan as Canada becomes the country’s top pork supplier

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on lack of Chinese demand, wheat hits contract lows

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