In York Region, for example, rental rates in 2024 were only $75 an acre compared with $360 an acre in Huron County, even though sale prices in York averaged $55,000 an acre and in Huron County $25,000 in 2024.
Rental rates averaged $100 an acre in Peel Region while sale prices averaged $75,000 an acre, the highest in the province.
Swine Health Ontario has reported an outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in a finisher barn in Huron County.
Tyson Foods will pay $48 million to settle a price-fixing class-action lawsuit filed by indirect buyers of its pork.
The Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs said the proposed deal with Tyson Foods Inc., Tyson Prepared Foods Inc. and Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. included cash payments and cooperation terms as the case neared trial.
Plaintiffs said Tyson also agreed to help authenticate Tyson documents for use at trial and to provide the settling plaintiffs the same access to potential trial witnesses that Tyson provided to non-settling defendants.
The pork cases alleged major pork producers conspired to constrain supply and fix prices beginning in 2009, including by exchanging competitively sensitive information through Agri Stats benchmarking reports. Plaintiffs said they and other class members paid artificially inflated prices for pork during the class period
The settlement would cover entities that indirectly purchased uncooked pork bacon or raw pork cuts including loins, shoulder, ribs, hams or pork chops for use in commercial food preparation from June 28, 2014, through June 30, 2018.
At least two dozen broiler and turkey houses in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley were damaged or entirely collapsed in the aftermath of the weekend storm that dumped an unusually heavy snowfall topped by a thick glazing of ice, the Virginia Poultry Federation said.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has secured convictions against Roger Snow and company 299614 Alberta Ltd.
The first offence was for the obstruction or hindering of a CFIA inspector by failing to provide requested information.
The second conviction was for advertising hemp hearts in a manner that suggested it was Health Canada-licenced which was false.
Chinese importers have already bought at least 10 boatloads of Canadian canola cargoes following Prime Minister Mark Carney recent visit to China where he announced China’s tariffs on Canadian canola, oil and meal will end March 1 and that Canada will allow up to 49,000 Chinese electrical vehicles into Canada at about six per cent tariff instead of the 100 per cent tariff that went into place after the U.S. placed a similar tariff on Chinese
Each boat will carry about 65,000 tonnes of canola.
“It is easy to get Canadian canola into the Chinese market. Crushers have gone ahead and booked these cargoes,” said one of the sources at an international agricultural company told Reuters news agency.
The Canadian Agriculture Union said cutting 1,371 jobs at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency imperils food safety.
The union represents 4,500 of the approximately 6,400 CFIA employees.
“More people will get sick from preventable food-borne illnesses, more poultry and livestock will die from avian flu and other diseases, and our food production industry will suffer,” said union president Milton Dyck.
The union said staffing at CFIA has declined by three per cent in the last decade compared to the a 30 per cent increase in the federal public service.
United States president Donald Trump’s administration also made big cuts to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Dyck said that puts the quality of imported food in doubt.
Dyck said food recalls rose by 150 per cent in the last decade. Many of the recalls are the result of CFIA testing for food-poisoning bacteria and undeclared allergens.