Canada can’t afford to let itself lag on crop research, authors argue.

Time to increase crop research funding

Canada has to take action to give agricultural productivity growth a booster shot

There’s much talk these days about diversifying Canadian agriculture’s exports away from their reliance on the sector’s two biggest, and currently most unpredictable, customers.





Electioneering overload

Electioneering overload

This has been a more-bruising-than-usual national campaign

Grainews editor Dave Bedard says farmers might not like politics, but they need to engage in it if they want to be heard - even with candidates they might not personally support.




Bird flu losses have causes egg prices in the U.S. to shoot up.

U.S. playing with bird flu fire

Good disease management is also good trade management, keeping markets open

Controversial comments from U.S. top officials do nothing to reassure American poultry trading partners that bird flu in the country is under control.