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Worker wage protection key for buy-in

By Geralyn Wichers November 26, 2020

In 2007, food processors and associations gathered to discuss the threat of a flu pandemic and their readiness for it. Among challenges they listed were low-income workers who couldn’t afford to take preventive measures. “This will contribute to the spread of disease,” says the report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. While low-wage, impoverished workers can’t

Across the country, companies are struggling to recruit people to work in food processing.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Agri-food sector still sees labour shortage

Canadians are getting back to work, but not in your sector

By Sylvain Charlebois October 28, 2020

Job numbers are better. For the agri-food sector though, not so much. Statistics Canada’s recent September job market data is reassuring. Overall, employment in the country increased in September, creating 378,000 jobs, the majority of which were full-time jobs. This increase in September brought our total employment to 720,000, shy of the level we had

File photo of rye at a grain market in India. (Deepak Sethi/E+/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Indian cabinet minister quits over farm legislation

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj September 17, 2020

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s minister for food processing resigned on Thursday over her opposition to planned laws to allow farmers to sell produce directly to bulk buyers and make contract farming easier, saying the legislation will hurt millions of the country’s farmers. “Proud to stand with farmers as their daughter and sister,” Harsimrat

Waste on the farm is a recurring issue and not just this year. What is different this year is the unprecedented volume.

Opinion

Opinion: Canada has the food industry it deserves

Don’t blame farmers for euthanizing animals and dumping milk

By Sylvain Charlebois June 2, 2020

Millions of litres of milk are being thrown away, more than two million eggs are eliminated from the food chain, and pigs and chickens are being euthanized. There is horror in the countryside. Throwing away good food when more than four million Canadians have lost their jobs is morally reprehensible, and farmers would be the

News, Other

Agriculture sector welcomes recent “essential” designation

COVID-19: Companies say the announcement gives them clarity in their operations

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2020

Obviously agriculture is essential, but the federal government “deemed” it so April 2 as the country battles to slow the spread of COVID-19. The move was welcomed by the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), which represents Canada’s biggest grain companies. “For our sector we feel there’s enough clarity that we are to keep operating as

Markets

Ottawa expected to ‘officially’ declare ag an essential service

The Western Grain Elevator Association says that designation will clarify things and help to keep grain moving

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News March 30, 2020

Canada’s grain industry expects the federal government will soon officially declare agriculture an essential service. Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), says that designation will have a practical application. “Hopefully it ends all confusion about grain workers at elevators, railway workers and anybody else required for moving grain, as to

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Lack of leadership on Food Safety Act leads to limbo

By Gord Gilmour November 28, 2019

On June 11, 2009 Gary Doer was contemplating his pending exit from provincial politics, Barack Obama had less than six months under his belt as president of the United States and Stephen Harper was still nearly two years away from receiving his first majority mandate. In popular culture, Jason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor” was burning

Plenty CEO and co-founder Matt Barnard (right) says his company is now competitive with organic  competitors but critics say vertical farms are simply too expensive to run.

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Are vertical farms ready for prime time?

Indoor farm companies say they're scaling up, but many question their business model

By Jane Lanhee Lee August 27, 2019

INNOVATION Indoor farm companies say they’re scaling up,  but many question their business model

Reuters — Leafy salad greens grown under banks of LED lights, with mist or drips of water are having their day in the sun. Several top U.S. indoor farms say they are boosting production to a level where they can now supply hundreds of grocery stores. Plenty, Bowery, Aerofarms and 80 Acres Farms are among young companies that see a future

Food processing has made significant contributions to society’s food systems, one being that our desired foods are available year round.

Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Opinion: In defence of ‘ultra-processed’ foods

There’s more than a whiff of classism, and even sexism, in smug criticism of this maligned food type

By Sylvain Charlebois August 19, 2019

Ultra-processed foods, a term coined by a Brazilian pediatrician many years ago, have been targeted as a menace to society for quite some time. Few have dared to counter the argument and this massive movement has clearly influenced policies around the world. However, the socio-economic implications of discouraging consumers to interact with these products have

Government, college staff and companies like Maple Leaf Foods were in attendance as the province announced $300,000 for Assiniboine Community College’s new animal protein-processing training centre April 26.

Livestock, Local news

Making the cut at ACC

The college’s new animal-processing centre will train students for the meat sector, ACC says

By Alexis Stockford May 7, 2019

There’s about to be a new stream of locally trained labour for the province’s meat sector. Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College (ACC) is preparing for the first crop of students at its new animal protein-processing training centre. The college is expecting about 40 graduates annually out of the centre’s first program. The 11-month class will greet

Daily Network News

CFIA looks for feedback on proposed seed potato rule changes

U.S. grains: Soybean futures rise on active Chinese buying

GMO food labelling review opens questions on gene editing

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