Young farmers can’t afford to be complacent given the expense of farming. The seven 2024 Outstanding Young Farmer nominees show how the next generation is creative in adapting their farms.
Op/Ed
Outstanding Young Farmers invest in adaptation
This year’s Outstanding Young Farmer nominees have had to get creative in face of agriculture industry headwinds
The inquisition on foreign labour is coming; is agriculture ready for it?
Agriculture will have to have a rock solid case to justify its reliance on foreign labour as the Canadian mood on immigration sours
Agriculture will have to have a rock solid case to justify itself and its reliance on foreign labour as the Canadian mood on immigration sours.
Canada needs a strategic plan for agriculture and food trade, and it needs it now
U.S. election results hammer home the need for a unified road map as we prepare to review our free trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico.
Canada needs to bolster against rising protectionism with a strategic plan for agriculture and food trade, especially with the Canada, U.S. Mexico (CUSMA) agreement coming up for review under Donald Trump.
The environmental cost of conflict
Farmers around the world pay the price for the wars they didn’t start
Farmers around the world pay the price for the wars they didn’t start
Hiding granaries from missiles
The farmers of Ukraine toil on, even in the shadow of a long war
Ukrainian farmers say the war has affected them, but they cannot stop their work.
Trump win adds fire to Bill C-282 debate
Canada’s supply management bill had already drawn lines between supply managed and non-supply managed agriculture; U.S. election results likely gave that wedge another whack
Canada’s supply management bill had already drawn lines between supply managed and non-supply managed agriculture; U.S. election results likely gave that wedge another whack.
Ottawa must move to stop the great train robbery
Canada’s rail system needs a hard look at costing to support critical trade and markets for western Canadian grain
Canada’s rail system needs a hard look at costing to support critical trade and markets for western Canadian grain
Canada Water Agency needs farmers at the table
Farmers are keepers of the land and of water, and they should be treated as such by the new Canada Water Agency
Farmers are keepers of the land and of water, and they should be treated as such by the new Canada Water Agency.
Is the biofuel market cooked?
A flood of cheap imported feedstocks like used cooking oil from China is undermining growth in the U.S. biofuel market for crops like canola and soybeans
A flood of cheap imported feedstocks like used cooking oil from China is undermining growth in the U.S. biofuel market for crops like canola and soybeans.
OPINION: It’s time to pass Bill C-282
Keeping dairy, eggs and poultry Canadian, as Bill C-282 would do, makes sense
Supply management is a uniquely Canadian triumph that has proven itself over 50 years and Bill C-282 would protect it.
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