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Walmart's in Canada Caught Red-Handed Wasting Food

The investigation found on 12 visits to two Wal-Mart stores in the Toronto-area repeatedly throwing away unused produce, baked goods, frozen foods, meat and dairy products in garbage bins out back well before its best-before date and unopened.

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Soybean Exports in 3Q Spark Best GDP Growth in Two Years

Gross domestic product increased at a 2.9 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the strongest since the third quarter of 2014 and beat economists' expectations for a 2.5 percent expansion pace.

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Brexit Will 'Ruin' Food Industry in Ireland and UK

Former Ireland prime ministers John Bruton and Bertie Ahern warn a European Union committee about possible common external tariffs between Ireland and the UK.

“The inter-relationships are enormous. Tariffs could cripple a huge amount of the food industry; the bureaucracy would be enormous – the amount of people involved, the add-on costs of running that kind of system. My concern is people would start going elsewhere for markets and it would really work totally against the entire industry and that would be a huge loss,' said former Ireland prime minister Bertie Ahern.

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EPA, DOT Finalize Phase Two Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Trucks

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

New standards address second-largest segment of U.S. transportation in terms of emissions and energy use.

The final standards are expected to lower CO2 emissions by approximately 1.1 billion metric tons, save vehicle owners fuel costs of about $170 billion, and reduce oil consumption by up to two billion barrels over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the program.

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Farm and Dairy Groups Call Dannon's Anti-GMO Pledge 'Marketing Fluff'

American Farm Bureau Federation

Dannon says its “pledge” to consumers commits the company to sustainable farming practices around its milk supply and includes the conversion of an estimated 80,000 acres of farmland to produce non-GMO livestock feed.

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Russia Forced to Stockpile its Bumper Wheat Crop

While shipments so far have disappointed, Russia’s still managing to reach markets it didn’t sell to last season, partly because a poor crop in France has hurt exports from the European Union’s biggest grower.

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Record Harvests of Wheat and Rice Expected to Keep World Import Prices Low

The abundant monsoon rains in Asia led to greater productions and there were also sizable increases in Africa. Record crops of coarse grain in Argentina, India and the US is increasing the crop by 1.8 percent, another high in terms of volume.

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USDA Announces $7.6 Million in Grants to Create Jobs and Grow Economic Opportunity in Rural America

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The grants will support communities in at least 24 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with several projects spanning communities in multiple states.

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Minnesota Workers Worried About Trade Talk in Presidential Race

In Minnesota, where agriculture and other businesses generally have benefited from lower tariffs and the easing of trade rules, trade deals are important and talk of removing those deals in starting to worry workers across the state.

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Survey: $3.00 Price of Diesel Will Cause Fleets to Seek Fuel-Saving Technologies

Nearly all fleet managers also feel that new EPA heavy-duty emissions regulations starting in 2017 will lead to higher truck operating and truck purchase costs.

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Waste Reduction

Brambles and The Global FoodBanking Network Partner to Alleviate World Hunger and Reduce Food Waste

CHEP USA, a Brambles company

The agreement comes as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the value of food lost or wasted annually around the globe amounts to roughly $680 billion in industrialized countries and $310 billion in developing countries.

Brambles has signed a three-year agreement with the international non-profit organization The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) to provide supply chain knowledge, in-kind contributions, volunteers and donations to help finance GFN operations, in an effort to reduce hunger, poverty, malnutrition and food waste globally.

Railroads Continue Tough Year, Losing More Freight to Trucking in 3Q

One of the few bright spots for the railroads is agriculture, as a bumper crop helped drive third-quarter grain carloads up about 17 percent.

For the first 22 weeks of 2016, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 5,274,449 carloads, down 13.7 percent from the same point last year; and 5,648,851 intermodal units, down 2.1 percent from last year. Total combined U.S. traffic for the first 22 weeks of 2016 was 10,923,300 carloads and intermodal units, a decrease of 8.1 percent compared to last year.

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