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A new study suggests that companies should commit to pricing healthier foods the same or lower than less healthy foods.
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Comment: Healthy food needs corporate support

Big food companies can do more to create healthier food environments

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Canada’s food environment makes it hard to eat healthy. Delicious, attractive but unhealthy foods are promoted, priced and placed for easy access and consumption. Meanwhile, companies and their shareholders have legally mandated profit-driven interests — interests that may not align with a desire to support public health and healthy eating among Canadians. We studied the
Manitoba Food History Project researchers invited people aboard their converted food truck to cook and talk about food in their family.
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Adobo, manomin and the illegal perogy lady

Local food history book tells the stories of many cultures that call Manitoba home

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Many small-town Manitobans have had a “perogy lady” in their lives. For me, it was a perogy couple. They were older, of Ukrainian heritage, and had a deal with my dad. He would trade half a deer’s worth of venison for butchering services. Sometimes the meat would come back with perogies, and those were the
Canada’s fire season is expected to begin earlier and last longer this year.
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Comment: Canadians left high and dry on water management issues

Federal budget 2024 misses the mark on water-related investments

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Canadians are worried as they look ahead to summer. Forest fires in British Columbia are expected to begin earlier and last longer this year and the Prairies are still expecting continued drought. Other Canadians are also bracing for or are already experiencing extreme flood conditions. In the lead-up to the federal government’s 2024 budget, there
Deciding where to remove animals requires careful planning based on where CWD has been found.
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Managing CWD means some deer have got to die

Animal removal, including hunting, will be key to nipping chronic wasting disease at the bud

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British Columbia, like Manitoba, is in the early days of its fight against chronic wasting disease. Things are moving quickly, and they must. On March 13, the British Columbia government announced it would harvest deer in the Kootenays. The word came six weeks after CWD, a fatal prion disease in deer, elk, moose and caribou,
Comment: No room for raw milk
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Comment: No room for raw milk

Bird flu infections in U.S. dairies underscore reasons pasteurization rules are a good idea

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I was on the edge of the conversation, waiting for the speaker at the ag-event-of-the-week to finish mingling so I could corner him for an interview. His conversation with a few of the event attendees had turned to dairy. The speaker came from the U.S., where rules on the sale of raw milk for human
Comment: Sovereignty is sovereignty
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Comment: Sovereignty is sovereignty

We must support the right of the people of Mexico to determine their own relationship with corn

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In solidarity with Mexico, today (April 8) 31 Canadian organizations including the National Farmers Union stated their objection to Canada’s role in a trade challenge initiated by the United States under the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement, which aims to end Mexico’s restrictions on the use of genetically modified corn for certain foods. Corn, also known as
Lollo Rosso (green leaf lettuce) is seen inside Elevate Farms’ one-million-pound grow tunnel vertical farming facility in Niagara, Canada, November 2020.
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Opinion: Improving our food system

Many perspectives will contribute to food production’s path forward

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Agriculture’s impact on the planet is massive and relentless. Roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s suitable land surface is used for cropland and grazing. The number of domestic animals far outweighs remaining wild populations. How humanity feeds itself has created challenges ranging from its contribution to climate change to weaknesses that were exposed by
A gravel road leading into Riding Mountain National Park in western Manitoba.
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Comment: The road to success

Federal policy cannot ignore the very real needs of the nation

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When Steven Guilbeault recently mused about no longer funding new road infrastructure, I was curious. How does the Minister for Environment and Climate Change have jurisdiction over transportation infrastructure? There is no mention or reference to roadways in his mandate letter from the prime minister. It is a mystery as to why he would suggest,
Thinking of this from an agricultural perspective, we must first ask how we see our own space and the community in which we live...
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Comment: Tourism can teach farming a thing or two

The tourism sector can offer agriculture some lessons on forging connection

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Glacier FarmMedia – I was thrilled to attend a premier tourism conference in January and I certainly felt at home. Tourism loves Canadian agriculture; so much so that the conference theme of regeneration was based on the agricultural model. Regenerative tourism digs deep into the concept of leaving a community better than before you visited
For hog farmers, energy costs are the second-highest operating expense after feed. – Cam Dahl.
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Comment: It’s hard to be green while in the red

Farmers must make money before they can invest in sustainability and the carbon price isn’t helping

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I’m not the one to come up with the line used in this article’s headline, but I wish I was. It is a succinct way of describing one of the most challenging policy aspects of sustainability. It is difficult, even impossible, to change farming practices aimed at improving environmental sustainability when experiencing negative margins. That

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