Farmers’ ire rises, and so do their costs, every time more market consolidation takes place.
It’s an age-old formula: by buying their competitors, the giants of the industry control supply and price….
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A province-wide effort is underway by a group of Canadian spirits producers to try to further modernize Ontario’s archaic liquor regulations.
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Americans are nagged to no end about their diets. The Centers for Disease Control, for example, relentlessly chides consumers for eating less than 10% of their daily recommended fruit-and-vegetable intake.
The center says that leads to all kinds of health problems and disease. But who’s to blame?
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The global Fresh Produce Coalition and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization met last month to talk about creating a group to analyze how cost hikes and supply chain disruptions have affected the fresh produce industry.
But really, is another analytical effort really needed to tell us how bad it is?
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Brazil swears a blue streak that it has stopped clear-cutting the rainforest to grow crops and raise animals. It admits that practice occurred in the past. But now, it says, much of the grazing that takes place in or around the rainforest is carried out on land that was already cleared. Having cattle on it helps it make a comeback, they say.
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Owen Roberts is an agricultural journalist and communications instructor based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is a trustee on the Global Foundation for Agricultural Journalism and an associate editor (communications) for the Journal of Agromedicine. Previously, Owen was president of the International Forum for Agricultural Journalists, an agricultural communications faculty member at the University of Illinois, and research communications director at the University of Guelph. His programs and research papers have been recognized through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence and the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation.