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Container regulation change angers food processors

By Alex Binkley November 21, 2012

A coalition of food processors and farm groups is protesting a federal plan to no longer require standard-size packages. New rules mean American food producers will no longer have to use Canadian-size packages and that will give some of them an advantage in the grocery store aisle, said Chris Kyte, president of the Food Processors

Country Crossroads, News

Recycle some baling twine

By Coco Aders November 21, 2012

Here’s a perfect way to recycle some of that baling twine and create a new watch strap. The strap is elasticized to fit most sizes and the loom is made from shish kebab skewers. (Shorter sticks result in the weave sliding down the elastic when being removed from the stick, causing the elastic to stretch

Beef cattle, Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Meat recall is a wake-up call

By Lorraine Stevenson November 9, 2012

Just days after the Food and Agriculture Organization’s report how one-third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted every year, the XL Foods scandal began. Now we’re hearing that at least two million pounds of beef, the equivalent of about 6,000 to 7,000 cattle, is heading to Alberta landfills. It’s the largest E.

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: How we cook(ed) in Canada

By Lorraine Stevenson October 26, 2012

Unless we keep journals or blog, few of us ever write our own story — our mothers and grandmothers certainly didn’t have much time to do so. So written records of their life’s experiences can be hard to find. But often their cookbooks have tales to tell. In the late 1990s, Ontario librarian and archivist

Country Crossroads

Waste not, want not — and yes, that includes zucchini

By Donna Gamache September 22, 2012

I grew up on a farm in the ’50s, where nothing was wasted — because, of course, “money doesn’t grow on trees.” This is a habit I cannot give up, even though today money in our household is a little more plentiful. The “throwaway society” of the 21st century doesn’t exist for me. I cannot

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap, May 3, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson May 3, 2012

Fast and hearty meals for the field With everyone hitting the fields this week, there’s no time for fooling around with fussy stuff, so here’s a few quick-to-make meals, including two “farm tested,” plus a great one-dish “bake-and-take” dessert and my own favourite cookie recipe. Work safe, everyone! Scrawny Ronnie’s Killer Casserole This recipe comes

News, Opinion

Here’s your chance

By Laura Rance-Unger April 30, 2012

It’s a common rant in the coffee shops and at the microphone of farm meetings. It’s been the subject of conferences and multi-stakeholder think-tanks. People outside of agriculture just don’t understand what it means to be a farmer. Farm Credit Canada recently consulted with its Farm Vision Panel on the matter and came up with

News

Manitobans challenged to DIG IN

By Lorraine Stevenson April 20, 2012

Initiative of Food Matters Manitoba challenges Manitobans to spend $10 a week of their grocery money on a local food purchase An urban-based food issues think-tank is challenging Manito-bans to make this the year they start buying more local food and connecting with the people who grow it. The Dig In Challenge is a five-month

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap, April 19, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson April 20, 2012

The quickening pulse Having lunch with friends a couple of years ago, we naturally began talking about food and the subject came around to “pulses.” Surprisingly, few knew what a “pulse” actually was. Few also ate lentils or chickpeas on any regular basis, although they were curious to learn more. Mission ImPulsible Here are two

Beef cattle, News

Food companies poised to profit as production rebounds

By Rod Nickel March 29, 2012

The world’s farmers are poised for a year of plenty in 2012 after last year’s weather-related disasters, and prospects of lower grain prices from bumper harvests could offer relief to the battered bottom lines of grain and food companies. Food and beverage companies like Sara Lee, PepsiCo and General Mills have struggled to absorb high

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

Tag Archives Cuisine

Container regulation change angers food processors

Recycle some baling twine

Recipe Swap: Meat recall is a wake-up call

Recipe Swap: How we cook(ed) in Canada

Waste not, want not — and yes, that includes zucchini

Recipe Swap, May 3, 2012

Here’s your chance

Manitobans challenged to DIG IN

Recipe Swap, April 19, 2012

Food companies poised to profit as production rebounds

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