Michael Lipsitz picks out a package of hot dogs while grocery shopping at the WalMart in Crossville, Tennessee March 21, 2008.  Food prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia  is demanding better food and farmers can?t keep up. In short, the world is in a food crisis that is in danger of boiling over.    REUTERS/Brian Snyder    (UNITED STATES)

Canada seventh on agri-food influence

Comparison of 19 G20 countries says Canadian agri-food needs investments, processing, action on retail consolidation to realize potential

Comparison of 19 G20 countries says Canadian agri-food needs investments, processing, action on retail consolidation to realize potential











File photo of a CFIA vehicle. Photo: File

B.C. ostriches now to be culled after ruling: CFIA

Farm has been at the centre of protests since CFIA first ordered the cull of over 300 birds

Birds are now to be culled from a British Columbia ostrich operation that sought to bypass standard federal practice in on-farm outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza and has been denied an appeal at Canada’s highest court.