[UPDATED: Apr. 23, 2024] As farmers enter one of their busiest times, they’re being asked to help shape Canada’s future seed regulations via online survey. The survey (found at the Government of Canada website) closes May 1 and is part of the seed regulatory modernization (SRM) process launched in September 2020 by the Canadian Food
Calling grain farmers: Feedback needed on seed modernization next steps
Online survey next step in debate over who should control what under seed regulations, and how that will affect farmers
Goodale brings ag trade experience to U.K. post
Agriculture issues are major irritants in trade deals
Since his 2021 appointment, Goodale has pushed the U.K. to drop what Canada claims to be illegal restrictions on imports of Canadian beef. Canada has also struggled with the European Union over implementation of the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) since 2014.
Farmers’ friend in high places
Ralph Goodale’s long journey from Wilcox, Sask., to Canada’s high commission in London
It’s about 6,700 kilometres from a farm near Wilcox, Sask., to Canada House on London’s historic Trafalgar Square. But the road that took a long-serving Canadian politician from that village, population 322, to heading Canada’s second-largest diplomatic mission is even longer. Ralph Goodale is a familiar name to Prairie farmers. He served as member of
Opinion: Kinew finds inner Pallister
Manitoba NDP premier Wab Kinew apparently isn’t afraid to borrow ideas, even from Brian Pallister, his one-time foe, former premier and once leader of the Progressive Conservatives. Kinew argues that Manitoba deserves a better deal on the federal government’s carbon pricing scheme, based on how much Manitobans have invested in hydroelectric power. That investment, in
No silver bullet for food price inflation
The causes might not be what you think they are
Canadian food price inflation has many causes, but grocers gouging customers isn’t one of them, Michael von Massow of the University of Guelph said during the Fields on Wheels conference hosted by the University of Manitoba Dec. 14. Even the carbon tax hasn’t had much impact, according to the associate professor of food economics.
Canada-U.S. ag trade worth billions, deputy ambassador says
Those tasty pork ribs started with hogs raised in Manitoba, fattened in Iowa and processed in Illinois
Washington, D.C. — Agricultural trade between Canada and the United States is important and valuable to both countries, officials told journalists from both countries April 25. “We literally grow things together to feed communities at home and around the world,” Canada’s deputy ambassador, Arun Alexander, told members of North American Agricultural Journalists during their visit
Proposed meat label bad news for North American livestock, meat supply chains: industry
If consumers wanted a voluntary label, they would already exist, Manitoba Pork’s Cam Dahl says
Washington, D.C. — Canada doesn’t want a proposed American rule for voluntary meat labelling to disrupt North America’s integrated meat and livestock industry, and thus damage Canada’s meat sector. “While we, of course, support efforts related to truth in labelling for consumers, we are concerned about the potential real-world consequences of the proposed rule on
Titanic tomato is science fact, not science fiction
Hydroponically fed, it just keeps growing more than 14 months after being planted
Science fiction often portrays giant plants as monsters — think Audrey II from “Little Shop of Horrors,” and the marauding Triffids in “Day of the Triffids.” But the titanic tomato growing soilless here in the United States Botanic Garden greenhouse for more than a year seems benign enough, but its size and age make it
Bringing farming to new heights
Up Top Acres finds its niche in the urban jungle
Farmer Kristof Grina takes elevators to get to his fields. The field in question, with a street address of 55 M Street, is on the 10th storey of an office building overlooking the U.S. capital. It is one of Up Top Acres’ 18 rooftop plots, totalling almost three acres. Members of the ag sector have
CGC extended access gets support
Producers would have more time to trigger a final say from the CGC on disputed grain grades
A Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) proposal to give farmers more time to ask the CGC to grade their grain when they disagree with an elevator ruling is supported by a majority who responded to the CGC’s request for feedback. Currently, farmers have to make that decision at the time the grain is delivered to an elevator. In
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