According to the 2024 Farm and Food Prices Report, consumers are paying more while farmers are seeing less. For example, beer – made of hops and barley – experienced a 21 per cent increase in retail ...
The Saskatchewan government is notable for not opposing, even not commenting, on the Bunge takeover of Viterra. The government had nothing to say even though a study by some of the most respected ag ...
But as the Dust Bowl continued for most of the decade and wheat prices plunged to the lowest in recorded history, two-thirds of Saskatchewan farmers were forced to line up for monthly aid.
Analysts suggest that crops like canola (oilseed rape) - already a major export to the US with $1.35 billion in oil, $368 million in meal, and $116m in seed exported from Manitoba alone in 2023 - ...