As Canada’s farmers keep an eye on market impacts due to trade uncertainty, they’re also facing issues surrounding the equipment they use every day with U.S. duties raising the costs for not only tractors and cultivators, but also the parts needed to keep them working   by Sean Previl - Global News Though the broad U.S. tariffs imposed on numerous countries on April 2 did not include Canada, it still ...

The Saskatchewan Pork Development Board has launched its second whole hog video series   by Bruce Cochrane - Farmscape.ca The Saskatchewan Pork Development Board's "whole hog" series of videos, features Reise Podhordeski, the Sask Pork whole hog youth ambassador, interviewing various members of the pork value chain. Jessica Podhordeski, the community relations and ag education coordinator with the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board, says the videos run about three and a ...

Tyson Foods reveals succession plans after an executive, seen by some analysts as a possible future CEO, left the company over conduct violations   by Tom Polansek - Reuters The meatpacker said late on Tuesday that Chief Supply Chain Officer Brady Stewart, who has also overseen its beef, pork and prepared foods businesses, ran afoul of its code of conduct. Tyson representatives have not responded to questions about the violations. ...

Prime Minister Carney said he and other senior officials would work to resolve a dispute with China over tariffs that Beijing has imposed on canola   Reuters China hit Canadian canola seed imports with preliminary 75.8% duties last month following an anti-dumping investigation, escalating a year-long trade dispute. China is by far Canada's biggest canola seed market.    "We're going to work hard to find a solution for our agricultural ...

For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock, but of course, most of them didn’t have drones   by Cedar Attanasio - The Associated Press But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they're using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and live human voices at the apex predators to shoo them away from cattle in an ongoing experiment. “I am ...

Washington has shut down a trade channel that has quietly sustained hundreds of Canadian food entrepreneurs   by Sylvain Charlebois By ending the de minimis exemption—the rule that lets small shipments under US$800 cross the border duty-free—American policymakers are putting new costs and red tape on the very jam makers, chocolatiers and specialty food exporters who rely on this rule to reach their first customers south of the border. This ...

Brazilian environment agency Ibama has notified 12 meatpacking plants, including two operated by JBS SA , of an inspection into their alleged involvement in a scheme to buy cattle from illegally cleared land in the Amazon rainforest   by Lisandra Paraguassu and Ana Mano - Reuters In a statement, JBS said it did not buy cattle from the farm that Ibama said had been illegally razed. The meatpacker added that ...