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Editor’s Rant: Product placement

By Dave Bedard April 4, 2024

It’s been many, many years since I was foolish enough to think I might have all the answers. In this space, be prepared to see me asking questions. At the very least — though I’ve also long since given up the idea of ever appearing on Jeopardy! — my responses will often be in the […] Read more

An image created by Nexu Science Communication, together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus, the type of virus linked to COVID-19. (Nexu Science Communication via Reuters)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Irritated trade partners push back on China’s coronavirus food tests

Canada rips testing as 'unjustified trade restrictions'

By GFM Network News November 18, 2020

Beijing/Geneva | Reuters — Major food-producing countries are growing increasingly frustrated with China’s scrutiny of imported products and are calling on it to stop aggressive testing for the coronavirus, which some say is tantamount to a trade restriction. China says it has found the virus on the packaging of products from 20 countries including German […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan)

Crops, Markets

Canary seed holds steady despite food adoption hopes

By GFM Network News March 7, 2019

MarketsFarm — Expectations for canary seed to break beyond birdseed into the food market haven’t yet translated to substantially higher prices for the crop. Canary seed was designated safe for human consumption in 2016, after which Saskatchewan’s then-agriculture minister Lyle Stewart predicted acreage dedicated to the crop would increase as it was incorporated into more […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Cargill expands food starch line-up in ‘clean label’ push

By GFM Network News October 10, 2017

New York | Reuters — Global commodities trader Cargill said on Tuesday it will increase its offerings of starch product options, seeking to capture rising demand for simpler ingredients and to meet changing consumer tastes. The Minneapolis-based agribusiness will now sell new “native starches” produced from plants such as corn and wheat, as an alternative […] Read more

Reuters

Tyson Foods beefs up prepared foods with AdvancePierre buy

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 25, 2017

Reuters – Tyson Foods Inc, the No. 1 U.S. meat processor, said on Tuesday it would buy packaged sandwich supplier AdvancePierre Foods Holdings Inc for about $3.2 billion in cash, to expand its fast-growing portfolio of prepared food brands. Demand for meat-based snacks has been growing as Americans shun candy and overly processed foods. This […] Read more

Coop Switzerland posted this photo on Twitter. The Coop will be partnering with Essento to offer insect-based burgers.

Features

Grasshopper burgers are on the menu

Insect burgers will soon be on sale in Switzerland. But they may not be for everyone

By Marianne Stamm March 20, 2017

In Sunday school we kids were taught that John the Baptist ate grasshoppers and honey. “How gross,” we thought. We didn’t know that John the Baptist was way ahead of his time. Folks find it repelling when I tell them of the piles of dried caterpillars and grasshoppers for sale at Zambian food markets. Well, […] Read more

I think what the consumer wants, and perhaps mostly demands, is a good-quality product, safe and healthy, hopefully tasty, and available at the lowest price possible.

Columns, Hart Attacks

What’s with “consumer demand?”

Both retailers and farm groups are using farm practices as a marketing pitch

By Lee Hart February 1, 2016

I have to admit I am more than a little sceptical of the term “consumer demand.” If I believed every TV commercial, news report, magazine article and corporate pitch talking about consumer demand I doubt I’d be able to leave the house without running into an angry mob rallied in front of some office or […] Read more

GFM Network News

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Tag Archives food products

Editor’s Rant: Product placement

Irritated trade partners push back on China’s coronavirus food tests

Canary seed holds steady despite food adoption hopes

Cargill expands food starch line-up in ‘clean label’ push

Tyson Foods beefs up prepared foods with AdvancePierre buy

Grasshopper burgers are on the menu

What’s with “consumer demand?”

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