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Idea alert

Michael Ignatieff pitches a national food policy. Details here....

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Tomato famine to feast

Eight day freeze wiped out two-thirds of the winter tomato crop

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Who wants to be a farmer?

The New Russian Village offers new homes, modern family farms and competitive pay

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What’s the new global source for fresh, shiny produce?

Famine-ridden Ethiopia

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Investment house on the Prairies

A Toronto firm plans to build the world’s biggest farm, and maybe one day a brand name in food

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What’s badgering the U.K.?

A planned badger cull has British animal lovers baring their teeth

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Mugabe's new tenant farmers

White farmers are renting land

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Where have Georgia's immigrant workers gone?

Echoing Arizona, Georgia passed a tough immigrant law. Now it finds itself desperately short of farmhands.

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Sowing seeds from the sky

Manitoba canola farmers are using helicopters to plant their rain-soaked fields

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Is organic food from China safe?

While organic agriculture is big in China, concerns about food safety and quality are starting to arise

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The Russians are coming

Field studies are under way to see if a foreign weed—a dandelion—could become a source of rubber and cash

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Pitchmen with pitchforks

Fast food restaurants are getting the farmers that grow their food to sell it too

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We reject your democracy and substitute our own

A majority of voters in a plebiscite have voted to maintain the Canadian Wheat...

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The Canadian Wheat Board and everything after

The five-part act to reform the Canadian Wheat Board, as tabled today, is here....

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Milk management fee

Barrie McKenna explores the government’s attempt to support both the free market (when it...

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Day one at the AAAS conference in Vancouver

New research emerges about Stonehenge's auditory magic and how to grow food in the desert

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No, the Wheat Board’s not in the Constitution

Because it’s a little difficult to find on the Web, I’ve uploaded a PDF...

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Martha Hall Findlay Maverick Watch

Perhaps on the eve of another leadership run, former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay...

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North 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

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Goodbye to all that

The Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly ends today. The Prime Minister is in Kindersley to...

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Prairie 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...

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Military drones put to good use

Keeping track of cattle and, perhaps one day, delivering the mail are emerging applications for UAVs

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The potash hangover

Oversupply and falling prices are hurting the once-promising industry

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A founder of the anti-GM food movement on how he got it wrong

Mark Lynas in conversation with Charlie Gillis

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Governments must address antibiotic use in farming: Ontario Medical Association

TORONTO – The Ontario Medical Association wants the federal and provincial governments to crack...

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U.S. Department of Agriculture considers sugar bailout

A sweet deal could be sour for manufacturers and consumers

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Canada hurting itself with protectionist practices in agriculture: report

OTTAWA – Canada is only hurting itself by maintaining high protectionist barriers on its...

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Guelph 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...

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The 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...

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New 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...

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Critics 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...

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The 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,...

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Agriculture 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...

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Saskatchewan 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...

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In 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...

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In 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...

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Is 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...

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The 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...

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What 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....

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Canada’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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