Best before dates are not expiry dates, and the confusion often leads to plenty of food waste.
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Best before doesn’t mean bad after
Good food often goes to waste due to misunderstandings about best before dates
Don’t hang too much on China trade: Ag Days speaker tells farmers
China ‘not a viable source of economic growth for farmers,’ Jacob Shapiro says, and agriculture needs to get with the new global trade reality
China ‘not a viable source of economic growth for farmers,’ analyst Jacob Shapiro says, and agriculture needs to get with the new global trade reality.
Peak of the Market named to industry award
Peak of the Market was recently recognized for strengthening the link between Manitoba farmers and local food service kitchens
Peak of the Market was recently recognized for strengthening the link between Manitoba farmers and local food service kitchens.
GMO food labelling review opens questions on gene editing
Canada is wrestling with how gene-editing should translate to voluntary genetically modified food labels, or whether it even should
Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity
London, Ont., adopted Canada’s first stand-alone Urban Agriculture Strategy in 2017. Yet, almost eight years later, many of the strategy’s goals remain unrealized.
Your best (and easiest) holiday dainty tray
Easy holiday treats to make ahead, here’s how to throw together a stunning, but low-stress, dainty tray.
Make-ahead recipes, store-bought goodies and co-operation with friends and family: Here’s how to throw together a stunning, low-stress tray.
World food prices fall for third month in November, UN’s FAO says
World food commodity prices fell for a third consecutive month in November, with all major staple foods except cereals showing a decline, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said.
Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026
Food prices are 27 per cent higher now than they were in 2020, the new Canada’s Food Price Report shows. Meat prices are particularly to blame for the rise.
Canadian hemp stable, but stuck on growth
Canada’s hemp industry hopes better hybrid varieties and yields, clearer regulations and new markets might help their crop break past its current ceiling and into stronger growth
Canada’s hemp industry hopes hybrid varieties, better yields, clearer regulations and new markets can help the crop break past its ceiling and get Canadian farmers planting more hemp acres.
Introducing the purple tomato
Recently approved, genetically altered purple tomato promises an antioxidant boost to Canadian diets, and maybe a resurrection of fun-coloured food?
Health Canada has approved bioengineered The Purple Tomato (TM), maybe leading to new culinary uses and health benefits?
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