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Today’s precipitation

By Staff 2 days ago

Data from weather stations across the Prairies are available to Glacier FarmMedia members at the WeatherFarm website, where you can also sign up for a daily forecast email for your area. On the go? Get the WeatherFarm mobile app, available for iPhone and Android devices. To learn more about the CoCoRaHS system that generates these precipitation maps […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Peas, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Uncertainty pervades markets

By Phil Franz-Warkentin 3 days ago

MarketsFarm — The price spread between green and yellow peas continues to widen in Western Canada, but whether or not that trend will continue remains to be seen. Numerous outside factors lend a general air of uncertainty to the pulse market, according to a pulse trader. Green peas typically trade at a premium to yellow […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Trudeau wants CUSMA deal ratified quickly

By Kelsey Johnson, Steve Scherer 4 days ago

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday urged legislators to quickly approve a new continental trade pact but the main opposition party said it wanted to study the deal, indicating the ratification process could drag on. Canada is the only one of the three signatories not to have formally blessed the […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

U.S. Senate passes CUSMA trade deal

By Reuters January 16, 2020

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a revamp of the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement that includes tougher rules on labour and automotive content but leaves US$1.2 trillion in annual U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade flows largely unchanged. The legislation for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA) passed on an 89-10 bipartisan vote, sending the […] Read more

Crops, Peas, Pulses

Subway, McDonald’s expand Beyond Meat rollouts in Canada

By GFM Staff January 12, 2020

Major fast-food chains McDonald’s and Subway are both expanding their rollouts of plant-based Beyond Meat products in Canada, beyond the range of their initial tests. McDonald’s Canada announced Wednesday it will expand the test marketing of its “P.L.T.” burger from its 28 stores in London, Ont. to also include 52 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and surrounding […] Read more

General, Machinery, Reuters

Deere bets on cost cuts, services push to boost profits

By Rajesh Kumar Singh January 8, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — Deere and Co. on Wednesday said it will cut costs and ramp up investment in data-driven agriculture technology and its services business to make itself more profitable. In a pitch to investors, CEO John May said the measures are expected to boost operating profit margin to 15 per cent by 2022 […] Read more

General, Reuters

U.S.-China deal should secure Canadians’ release, Trudeau says

By Kelsey Johnson December 19, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that the U.S. government should not finalize a trade deal with China unless the pact also secured the release of two Canadians detained by Beijing. The two men were picked up separately in December 2018, shortly after police in Vancouver held Huawei Technologies […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

U.S. House passes CUSMA

By Reuters December 19, 2019

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday backed a new trade agreement with neighbouring Mexico and Canada in a 385-41 bipartisan vote, sending the NAFTA replacement measure to the Senate for consideration early in 2020. Democrats, who control the House, approved the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA) more than a year after […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Opposition MPs could delay CUSMA deal’s ratification

By David Ljunggren December 11, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s two main opposition parties on Wednesday suggested they could move to delay ratification of a new continental trade pact, accusing the Liberal government of botching revisions to the treaty. Such a move would embarrass Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has vowed that Parliament will quickly approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA). […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Nestle sells U.S. ice cream brands to Froneri

By Reuters December 11, 2019

Zurich | Reuters — Nestle SA has agreed to sell its U.S. ice cream business to Froneri in a deal valued at US$4 billion, moving control of brands including Häagen-Dazs to a joint venture the Swiss group set up in 2016. Froneri was created after Nestle merged its European ice cream business in 20 countries […] Read more

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Today’s precipitation

Pulse weekly outlook: Uncertainty pervades markets

Trudeau wants CUSMA deal ratified quickly

U.S. Senate passes CUSMA trade deal

Subway, McDonald’s expand Beyond Meat rollouts in Canada

Deere bets on cost cuts, services push to boost profits

U.S.-China deal should secure Canadians’ release, Trudeau says

U.S. House passes CUSMA

Opposition MPs could delay CUSMA deal’s ratification

Nestle sells U.S. ice cream brands to Froneri

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