A container of honey proudly displays its Canadian farm origins. Trade tensions, with the U.S. threatening tariffs on Canadian products, has revived calls for Canadians to buy local and buy Canadian at the grocery store. PHOTO: ALEXIS STOCKFORD

The pride of “Buy Canadian”

Editorial: Grocery shoppers in Canada are proudly looking for Canadian food and buying local in this age of trade disputes, but is it actually making a dint for U.S. exporters?

Grocery shoppers in Canada are proudly looking for Canadian food in this age of trade disputes, but is it actually making a dint for U.S. exporters?


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Going beyond “Resistant” on crop seed labels

Variety resistance is getting more specific on crop disease pathogens, but that information must be conveyed in a way that actually helps producers make rotation decisions.

Variety resistance is getting more specific on crop disease pathogens, but that information must be conveyed in a way that actually helps producers make rotation decisions.

Operators are still required in the cab for most farming tasks as equipment manufacturers gradually automate the processes and decisions that require operator intervention. Photo: File

Farming still has digital walls to scale

Hurdles between Canadian farms and widespread adoption of digital agriculture technology haven’t changed much

Canadian farms still face the same obstacles to adopting digital agriculture technology, despite the years industry and policy makers have had to break them down.


Smoke rises out of a northern Manitoba fire in late May 2025. A water bomber can be seen in the background.

Manitoba lifts state of emergency

Rampant wildfires put Manitoba under a state of emergency for the better part of a month across May and June

Rampant wildfires put Manitoba under a state of emergency for the better part of a month across May and June. The state of emergency was lifted June 23, 2025.

Manitoba spent a lot of effort in past decades to keep bovine tuberculosis out of the province’s cattle. In June 2025, the disease made a return in a Manitoba dairy. (Dairy cattle photographed above are unrelated to the recent bovine tuberculosis finding) Photo: File

Bovine tuberculosis found in Manitoba

A dairy farm in south-central Manitoba has been declared infected with bovine tuberculosis, the province’s first bovine TB case in years

A dairy farm in south-central Manitoba has been declared infected with bovine tuberculosis after samples from a cow tested positive for the bacterial disease. It's the province's first bovine TB case in years.


Holstein dairy cattle in Canada line up for the camera.

Bovine tuberculosis found in Manitoba

A dairy farm in south-central Manitoba has been declared infected with bovine tuberculosis, the province’s first bovine TB case in years

A dairy farm in south-central Manitoba has been declared infected with bovine tuberculosis after samples from a cow tested positive for the bacterial disease. It’s the province’s first bovine TB case in years.