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Sustainability is in sight

The world agrees on a definition

As we look ahead to 2015 I imagine most of you are anticipating, or hoping, for a repeat of 2014. We can’t always see what lies ahead, but in at least one small aspect I’m pretty confident that you are going to hear the word sustainability crop up in conversations a lot more in the […] Read more


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Cargill says will go it alone on Nutreco deal

Amsterdam | Reuters –– U.S. commodities company Cargill said on Thursday it would bid alone for Dutch animal feed company Nutreco and pledged not to break up the business to try to capture the initiative from rival bidder SHV. Shares in global fish and animal feed supplier Nutreco rose more than four per cent as […] Read more

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Cargill recalling beef sold at Walmarts in Canada

Reuters — Cargill, Canada’s biggest beef processor, is recalling ground beef sold by Wal-Mart Stores that may be contaminated with E. coli, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Tuesday. The agency said there have not been any reported illnesses associated with Cargill Meat Solutions’ “Your Fresh Market” brand beef, sold at Walmart in Alberta, […] Read more


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Cargill to sell, shut Manitoba feed mills

Cargill’s Canadian arm has announced plans to get out of the livestock feed milling business in Manitoba. The U.S. agrifood firm’s Winnipeg-based Canadian office announced Thursday it will close its feed mill at Brandon, Man. It will also sell its feed mill in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface district to U.S. feed company Standard Nutrition for an […] Read more

Cargill to close Man. grain facility

Cargill to close Man. grain facility

Reuters – Cargill Ltd. said on Thursday that it will close its Swan River, Manitoba grain facility, which includes two elevators, as of May 31, 2015. The facility would require costly upgrades if it remained open, Jeff Wildeman, regional manager of Cargill AgHorizons said in a statement. Cargill’s crop inputs facility in Swan River will remain open. The decision comes as Cargill […] Read more


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Ex-Cargill beef plant worker fined in Alta. court

Reuters — A former worker at Cargill’s High River, Alta. beef plant has been fined for tampering with wastewater samples required by the province, Alberta officials said Wednesday. Cargill Ltd., the Canadian division of the privately held U.S. company, was required by Alberta to study the plant’s wastewater, and limit the amount of phosphorus discharged […] Read more



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Fewer cattle, fewer meat-packing plants

Shrinking herds means less beef to process and shuttered facilities

Meat-packing plants are the lifeblood of many rural communities in North America. So the impact of a plant closure is often felt more by local businesses than by livestock producers who supplied the plant. It wasn’t always that way for producers. Even in the early 2000s, groups on both sides of the border worked to […] Read more