Propaganda posters celebrating farming show the legacy of Canadian agriculture during the Second World War.
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Canada’s ‘Harvest for Victory’ in the Second World War
Farm work was war work in the Second World War, according to Canada’s government, and propaganda posters show how they sold that message to Canadians
Manitoba’s forced Japanese-Canadian farmers
Manitoba sugar beet farms drew labour from displaced Japanese-Canadians from B.C. during the Second World War
Manitoba’s sugar beet farms drew on displaced Japanese-Canadians from B.C. during the Second World War.
REMEMBRANCE DAY 2025: Women who fed a nation
Documentary ‘We Lend a Hand’ chronicles the lives of farmerettes and farm labour during the Second World War
More than 40,000 young Canadian women supported the war effort between the 1940s and early 1950s, helping grow and harvest crops amid labour shortages. They were called Farmerettes.
Women who fed a nation
More than 40,000 young women supported the war effort between the 1940s and early 1950s, helping grow and harvest crops amid labour shortages. They were called Farmerettes.
The forced Japanese-Canadian farmers of the Second World War
Manitoba’s sugar beet farms drew on displaced Japanese-Canadians from B.C. during the Second World War
Canada’s ‘Harvest for Victory’ in the Second World War
Propaganda posters celebrating farming show the legacy of Canadian agriculture during the Second World War.
On-farm research translates crop breakthroughs into ‘farmer speak’
Field-scale crop research gives commercial acumen and real farm reality check to raw science and small-plot agricultural studies
Manitoba’s three major agriculture grower groups support farm-level research to test crop science under the shifting conditions of real farmer fields.
Canada losing farmland to development as rental costs squeeze farmers
Canada’s dwindling farmland base and rising rental costs threaten the country’s agricultural sustainability, researchers warn
Urban development is eating up a worrying amount of Canada’s farmland base, rising rental costs threaten the country’s agricultural sustainability, researchers warn
Canada’s agricultural productivity needs kickstart: analysts
Lack of access to capital and markets, slow regulatory environment described as barriers to building value-added capacity and bolstering agriculture's productivity
Lack of capital and markets and a slow regulatory environment is bogging down Canada’s ability to build value-added processing capacity and thus bolster agricultural productivity, speakers say.
Canada’s productivity decline to hit farmers
FCC chief economist wants a return to agriculture’s productivity growth glory days
FCC chief economist wants a return to agriculture's productivity growth glory days.
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