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Oat starch for less food waste

One researcher hopes a protective coating made of oat starch can be used to extend fruit and veggie shelf life

By Robert Arnason February 13, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Fruit and vegetables make up a lot of the food that Canadians throw away. Of all household food items that end up in the trash, vegetables represent 30 per cent of total food waste by weight, while fruits come in at 15 per cent, according to anti-food waste website LoveFoodHateWaste.ca. The site,

Before you use sugar substitutes, it’s important to understand the multiple roles that sugar plays in baking.

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No sugar? No problem: Sweet substitutes in a sugar shortage

Empty sugar shelves don’t have to derail holiday baking, there are easy alternatives

By Getty Stewart December 7, 2023

There’s a sugar shortage in Western Canada but your baking plans need not be kiboshed. Despite the bare sugar shelves in the grocery store, there are sweet alternatives to rescue your holiday treats and maintain the festive spirit. The science of sugar Before we use sugar substitutes, it’s important to understand the multiple roles that

News

McDonald’s Japan hikes prices again on surging costs

By Rocky Swift January 18, 2023

Reuters — The Japanese operator of McDonald’s restaurants announced its third price hike in less than a year on Jan. 6 in the latest sign of compounding inflationary pressures on that nation’s consumers. McDonald’s Holding Company Japan said it would raise prices on about 80 per cent of its menu from Jan. 16, citing currency

UK farmer Stephen Briggs says adding trees to his landscape has built his farm’s resilience.

News

How mixing farms with forests can help nations reach net zero

Planting trees on working farms can curb emissions, boost income but money and time are barriers

By Rachel Parsons November 16, 2022

Thomson Reuters Foundation – Stephen Briggs popped open his pocket knife, carved a wedge from a small pink and green apple and took a bite. “Those are ready,” he said, looking at a nearby apple tree, one of 4,500 planted in neat rows through wheat fields on his farm near Peterborough, in eastern England. The

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau views damage to lobster boats from Hurricane Fiona at Stanley Bridge, P.E.I. on Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Phil Matusiewicz)

Trudeau tours storm-hit Atlantic Canada as power outages persist

Flooding may hit P.E.I. potato crops

By GFM Network News September 27, 2022

Port aux Basques, N.L. | Reuters — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday started a tour of Atlantic Canada, where thousands were still without power after record-setting storm Fiona ravaged the country’s east coast, tossing homes into the sea and killing at least three people. Fiona recorded the lowest barometric pressure ever for a storm

A composite satellite view of Hurricane Fiona nearing Nova Scotia at about 6 p.m. local time on Sept. 23, 2022. (U.S. National Hurricane Center image, NOAA.gov)

Weather

Fiona pounds Bermuda as Canada braces for major jolt

Up to eight inches of rain expected along path

By GFM Network News September 23, 2022

Hamilton, Bermuda/Halifax, N.S. | Reuters — Hurricane Fiona pounded the Atlantic island of Bermuda with heavy rain and winds on Friday as it tracked northward toward Eastern Canada, where it threatens to become one of the most severe storms in Canadian history. Fiona had already battered a series of Caribbean islands earlier in the week,

File photo of wild horses running on grasslands in Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island National Park Reserve. (Photo by Sarah Medill/Parks Canada/Handout via Reuters)

Other, Weather

Wild horses face unruly storms as Fiona nears East Coast

Damages feared to buildings, utilities, crops

By GFM Network News, Ismail Shakil September 23, 2022

Ottawa | Reuters — Shaggy, long-maned wild horses grazing freely on the sandy grasslands of the crescent-shaped Sable Island in the North Atlantic are expected to come under the swipe of a powerful storm forecast to hit Eastern Canada this weekend. Hurricane Fiona, tracking northward after carving a destructive path through the Dominican Republic and

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Winkler cidery opens orchard-side tasting room

Once a vegetable farm, Dead Horse Cider is making award-winning forays into fabulous flavour

By Geralyn Wichers June 27, 2022

Tasting notes of tequila, lime, strawberry and… horse blanket? Think hayloft, not manure, says Dead Horse Cider founder Marcus Wiebe. He ushers a Manitoba Co-operator reporter over to the taps in the Winkler cidery’s sun-dappled tasting room. After tasting the funky crispness of the Backyard Blend, made entirely from local apples, it makes sense. There

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: On rent-seeking

By Gord Gilmour March 10, 2022

If you’ve already read Allan Dawson’s story featured on the front page of our Mar. 10 issue of the Co-operator, there’s a fairly high likelihood you’re feeling a bit sour. In it he details the work done by agricultural economist Ryan Cardwell on the topic of ‘rent-seeking’ behaviour generally, and how farmers are particularly good

A restoration company vehicle sits in a flooded field at Abbotsford, B.C. on Nov. 30, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier)

Weather

AgriRecovery underway for flood-battered B.C. farms

Feds, province put up $228 million

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 8, 2022

The federal and British Columbia governments’ response to last fall’s destructive flooding now includes what’s said to be the biggest farm disaster recovery package in the province’s history. Provincial Agriculture Minister Lana Popham and her federal counterpart Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday announced cost-shared funding of $228 million for the Canada-B.C. Flood Recovery for Food Security

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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