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Snack food trends

Canadians love their snacks, and the latest Consumer Corner looks at the snack food industry, valued at $12.6 billion in Canada. Ava Duering, competitiveness analyst with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, looks at the numbers and how Alberta producers can capitalize on the growing snack food trend.

Interview with Ava Duering (3:29 minutes) (1.60 Mb)

For more information, check out Ava’s article Snack Food, on Alberta Agriculture and Forestry’s website. 

Source : Alberta agriculture and forestry

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Understanding Commodity Prices: FCC Food & Beverage Economics

Video: Understanding Commodity Prices: FCC Food & Beverage Economics

Commodity price trends and the existence of futures markets are useful tools to identify patterns and make profitability projections for food and beverage manufacturers.  

  In this video, J.P. Gervais, FCC Chief Economist, reviews how commodity prices are established and the trends to watch for. 

What you’ll learn: 

- How agricultural commodities prices matter greatly for the profitability of food and beverage manufacturers 

- Supply and demand is the most powerful tool to anticipate agricultural commodity price trends  

- Watching the evolution of prices in futures markets can be useful to project future price trends.