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The New Russian Village offers new homes, modern family farms and competitive pay
View ArticleInvestment house on the Prairies
A Toronto firm plans to build the world’s biggest farm, and maybe one day a brand name in food
View ArticleWhat’s badgering the U.K.?
A planned badger cull has British animal lovers baring their teeth
View ArticleWhere have Georgia's immigrant workers gone?
Echoing Arizona, Georgia passed a tough immigrant law. Now it finds itself desperately short of farmhands.
View ArticleSowing seeds from the sky
Manitoba canola farmers are using helicopters to plant their rain-soaked fields
View ArticleIs organic food from China safe?
While organic agriculture is big in China, concerns about food safety and quality are starting to arise
View ArticleThe Russians are coming
Field studies are under way to see if a foreign weed—a dandelion—could become a source of rubber and cash
View ArticlePitchmen with pitchforks
Fast food restaurants are getting the farmers that grow their food to sell it too
View ArticleWe reject your democracy and substitute our own
A majority of voters in a plebiscite have voted to maintain the Canadian Wheat...
View ArticleThe Canadian Wheat Board and everything after
The five-part act to reform the Canadian Wheat Board, as tabled today, is here....
View ArticleMilk management fee
Barrie McKenna explores the government’s attempt to support both the free market (when it...
View ArticleDay one at the AAAS conference in Vancouver
New research emerges about Stonehenge's auditory magic and how to grow food in the desert
View ArticleNo, the Wheat Board’s not in the Constitution
Because it’s a little difficult to find on the Web, I’ve uploaded a PDF...
View ArticleMartha Hall Findlay Maverick Watch
Perhaps on the eve of another leadership run, former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay...
View ArticleNorth America’s corn belt is baking, and everyone is about to feel the burn
The worst draught in a quarter-century is threatening the global food supply
View ArticleGoodbye to all that
The Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly ends today. The Prime Minister is in Kindersley to...
View ArticlePrairie farmers ask for government help getting hay to Ontario and Quebec
WHITEHORSE – A move is afoot to get hay from the Prairies to drought-stricken...
View ArticleMilitary drones put to good use
Keeping track of cattle and, perhaps one day, delivering the mail are emerging applications for UAVs
View ArticleThe potash hangover
Oversupply and falling prices are hurting the once-promising industry
View ArticleA founder of the anti-GM food movement on how he got it wrong
Mark Lynas in conversation with Charlie Gillis
View ArticleGovernments must address antibiotic use in farming: Ontario Medical Association
TORONTO – The Ontario Medical Association wants the federal and provincial governments to crack...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Agriculture considers sugar bailout
A sweet deal could be sour for manufacturers and consumers
View ArticleCanada hurting itself with protectionist practices in agriculture: report
OTTAWA – Canada is only hurting itself by maintaining high protectionist barriers on its...
View ArticleGuelph wins “Weed Olympics”
Four students from the University of Guelph have been named the “Best Student Weed Scientists in North America.” They won the gold medal at the 2011 Weed Olympics held in Knoxville, Tenn. earlier this...
View ArticleThe dirt on farming
Photo by Andrew Tolson From the 21st Maclean’s University Rankings, on newsstands now. Story by Jason McBride This past September, New Brunswick’s Mount Allison University held an event unprecedented...
View ArticleNew sustainable farming degree in B.C.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is looking for a couple dozen recruits for its new four-year Bachelor of Applied Science in sustainable small-scale agriculture, reports the Vancouver Sun. The degree...
View ArticleCritics of supply management are milking the argument
(Shutterstock) In a three-part series Martha Hall Findlay, executive fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy and a former Liberal MP, has argued that Canada’s system of supply...
View ArticleThe Editorial: Protecting Canada’s farmland, the right way
Aerial view of farmlands in the Fraser Valley near Vancouver, BC. (Marlene Ford/Getty Images) Canada was once a country of farms. At Confederation, four out of every five Canadians were farmers. Today,...
View ArticleAgriculture minister says time running short for U.S. to fix meat label law
Canada’s agriculture minister says time is running short for the U.S. to avoid trade tariffs over its discriminatory meat labelling laws. Gerry Ritz said if Washington doesn’t change its country of...
View ArticleSaskatchewan town votes to change ‘Land of Rape and Honey’ slogan
A canola crop in bloom. (Todd Korol/Reuters) TISDALE, Sask. – A town in northern Saskatchewan will no longer use the slogan “Land of Rape and Honey.” Town council has voted to rebrand the community of...
View ArticleIn defence of genetically modified food
A scientist examines an ear of corn in one of Monsanto’s GMO testing labs. (Daniel Shea) Chipotle Mexican Grill’s view of life beyond its doors is pretty disturbing for a burrito chain. A few years ago...
View ArticleIn praise of the Yukon Gold potato
Gary Johnston shows off Yukon Gold and Ruby Gold potatoes in his Guelph, Ont., home. (Judy Creighton/CP) On Barack Obama’s table at holiday feasts; on Justin Trudeau’s plate at his White House state...
View ArticleIs Canada addicted to Canola?
Canola farming. (Shutterstock) Canola has positioned itself next to peanut butter and poutine as one of Canada’s greatest food inventions—something Keith Downey, a father of five and “Father of...
View ArticleThe roots of organic farming lie in fascism
The roots of organic farming in the United Kingdom can be traced to the fascism movement that began after the First World War. Rick Barrett/ambitious creative co, CC BY-SA In 1927 Henry Williamson...
View ArticleWhat Canadians don’t understand about farming—and what they need to
Toban Dyck is a farmer and writer living in southern Manitoba. My family’s farm began in 1880s with a sod house and an intrepid couple—the Banmans—willing to brave the unforgiving Canadian prairies....
View ArticleCanada’s farmers aren’t a monolith—and for many of us, the USMCA is a good thing
Toban Dyck is a farmer and writer living in southern Manitoba. The food I grow doesn’t feed my neighbour. It doesn’t feed my community. And it doesn’t feed me—at least it doesn’t in ways I can easily...
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