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Every commodity board will face a crisis. Food safety incidents. Activist campaigns. Trade disruptions. Production practice exposés. The question isn't if—it's when, and whether you're prepared. Most...
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Search is fragmenting. Google still dominates, but consumers increasingly get answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and AI assistants embedded in every device. When someone asks "what's the health...
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Commodity boards have a communications problem most brands don't face: you're promoting a category, not a product. There's no logo on a pork chop. No brand name on a bushel of soybeans. When consumers...
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You've been asked to commission market research. Maybe it's for a trade mission, a new product launch, or justifying next year's marketing budget. You need consumer insights, competitive intelligence,...
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The agricultural advertising playbook hasn't changed much in decades. Farm publications. Trade shows. Field days. Radio spots during the morning market report. These channels still matter. But the far...
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Every year, the U.S. government allocates significant budget to help American agricultural producers sell their products overseas. Most commodity boards and agricultural trade associations know this f...
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The death of SEO as we know it is happening right now, and most marketers are missing it. A groundbreaking new study analyzing over 24,000 real-world conversations with AI search systems reveals a fun...
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Wittington Investments - the Weston family office behind Loblaw and George Weston- is launching a $100M fund to back Canadian food producers and the infrastructure that helps them scale. Ticket sizes...
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Canada has long been a powerhouse in agriculture, exporting billions in raw commodities like wheat, pulses, and beef. But while other nations transform these resources into high-value products—selling...
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In times of market turbulence, hope is not a strategy. The escalating trade tensions between the US and Canada are sending shockwaves through the food and ag industry, disrupting established supply ch...
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“I dread few meetings more than innovation meetings.” That’s what a client told us recently. They didn’t mean it as a joke. It’s easy to assume CPG innovation is alive and well. After all, there’s no...
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