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Sucro Can to open Canada’s largest sugar refinery in Hamilton

Facility will not have a direct impact on Ontario farmers

By Jonah Grignon February 5, 2024

Sucro Can has announced plans to build Canada’s largest sugar-processing plant in Hamilton. The facility is expected to open in 2025 on lands owned by the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority (HOPA). The plant will likely have little direct impact on Ontario farmers, as it will refine sugar cane imported from Central and South America, with no […] Read more

Striking Rogers Sugar workers reach tentative deal

The walk-out sparked sugar shortages and led Alberta sugar beet producers to call for more local investment

By Geralyn Wichers January 26, 2024

Rogers Sugar says it's reached a tentative deal with the union representing striking workers from its Vancouver refinery.

Investors are increasingly focusing on links between a healthy food system and efforts to fight global warming and preserve biodiversity. Photo: fotografixx/Getty Images

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Sugar beet growers seek to expand sector with domestic policy

It wouldn’t stop strikes, but it would recharge Canada’s sugar industry, says producer group

By Jeff Melchior December 13, 2023

The Alberta Sugar Beet Growers want a national domestic sugar policy, which the organization says could lay the foundation for resurgence in the sector.

Ralph Christian Delos Santos of Biofect giving his pitch at the recent Ontario Agri Tech Pitch Competition at the University of Guelph.

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Natural sugar substitute wins provincial agri-tech pitch competition

Annual competition highlights agricultural innovations

By Lilian Schaer April 24, 2023

A self-proclaimed recovering sugar addict made the winning pitch at the 2023 Ontario Agri Tech Pitch Competition, walking away with $10,000 in prize money for his precision fermentation start-up, Biofect Innovations. Why it matters: Governments around the world are changing how sugar is labelled and used in food products, so food and beverage manufacturers are […] Read more

File photo of farmland in Sierra Leone. (Belen B Massieu/iStock/Getty Images)

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Sierra Leone passes new laws to boost landowners’ rights

By Umaru Fofana August 9, 2022

Freetown | Reuters — Sierra Leone’s parliament on Monday passed two laws that lawyers say will help boost the rights of rural landowners and women against land grabs by big mining and agribusiness firms. The West African country has a history of sometimes deadly conflict between local communities and foreign companies that have cleared huge […] Read more

File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)

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‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

By Marcelo Teixeira October 23, 2021

New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs and delays amid booming shipping […] Read more

Sugar beets are grown on more than 300 farms across Canada.

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Some sweetness found in bitter USMCA deal?

Western sugar beet growers get more access to U.S. market

By Matt McIntosh October 16, 2018

Flying under the radar in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade is a small change in Canada’s access to the American sugar markets — something that the United States has historically guarded with protectionist policies. In a news release expressing disappointment with many of the concessions granted during trade talks, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture […] Read more

Markets

Chickens culled as Brazil truckers disrupt commodity exports

By Ana Mano, José Roberto Gomes May 29, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Striking truckers in Brazil have disrupted supply and exports of farm produce from one of the world’s agricultural commodity powerhouses. Brazil is the top global exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and chickens. The strike over high fuel prices has paralyzed Latin America’s largest economy, emptied Brazilian roadways and left major […] Read more

Livestock

Honeybees’ attraction to fungicide ‘unsettling’

By Emma Batha January 9, 2018

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Honeybees are attracted to a fungicide used in agriculture with “unsettling implications” for global food production, a U.S. scientist said on Tuesday. Tests carried out by a team from the University of Illinois showed bees preferred to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone. […] Read more

From sugar mills to hog farms, U.S. agriculture braces for Irma

By P.J. Huffstutter, Renita D. Young September 7, 2017

Chicago/New York | Reuters — Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the south and southeastern parts of the U.S. on Wednesday. Florida sugar and citrus processors rushed to secure rail cars and equipment that could be crushed, blocked or turned into flying projectiles. […] Read more

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