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Country Crossroads, News, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Digging into homegrown or local food

By Lorraine Stevenson June 5, 2012

“What a lot of work!” a neighbour exclaimed the other day, peering over my fence. She was looking dubiously at my little garden. “Not work. It’s fun,” I replied cheerfully and I meant it. What my neighbour could see was just a lot of digging, lifting, pulling, hoeing, bending. Possibly, she may have also been

Country Crossroads, News

Get ready for barbecue season

By Julie Garden-Robinson June 5, 2012

Get a clean plate to retrieve food from the grill. Check. Bring a thermometer to measure internal temperature. Check. Retrieve grill brush from storage to clean the grill. Wait a second! As I was helping prepare a meal on our outdoor grill, I paused to check my Facebook page. One of my Facebook friends had

Cereals, Crops, News

Head baker makes sure the slice is right

By Laura Rance-Unger May 30, 2012

Tony Tweed knew about the unique quality of Canadian bread wheats long before he was recruited to Canada in the mid-1960s to establish its first commercial baking school at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton. “I worked with a lot of Canadian wheat flour in England,” the British-born and -trained baker said. “Everybody

Beef cattle, Opinion

Beleaguered beef purveyors carve out “pink slime” stain

By Michael Hirtzer, P.J. Huffstutter May 31, 2012

Behind the glass meat counter at Casey’s Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations-old tradition. Piece by piece, the men use knives to cut meat and fat off beef carcasses, and grind them into mounds of hamburger. “We’re seeing customers in here that we haven’t seen

Opinion

Food security not a supply issue

By Ron Bonnett May 30, 2012

There has been a lot of debate in the news lately about the Canadian food system. UN Right to Food Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter recently visited Canada and indicated there are currently 800,000 Canadian households that are food insecure. He concluded that Canada has a lot of work to do in making sure more people

Opinion

On rural romanticism and “natural” foods

By Ronald Doering May 30, 2012

The proliferation on our grocery shelves of foods with “natural” claims shows no sign of abating. With the growing recognition that organic food is not any safer, tastier, more nutritious or more sustainable, in spite of the higher price, consumers now want foods that are produced the old-fashioned way on the small family farm. Not

Country Crossroads, News

UN envoy says Canada needs a “right to food strategy”

By Lorraine Stevenson May 30, 2012

The special rapporteur on the right to food's visit marks the first time the UN has  dispatched an official to investigate food insecurity in a developed country

If everyone using a food bank in Manitoba lived in one place, it would be the province’s second-largest city. There are approximately 56,000 Manitobans who lack access to food because they either can’t afford it, or have nowhere to produce any themselves — or both. They are the Manitobans that Winnipeg Harvest has been trying

Hogs, News

Can’t live with them, or without them

By Rod Nickel May 30, 2012

A U.S. animal rights group hopes to save a herd of genetically modified pigs from early deaths after funding dried up for a Canadian research project that has stoked controversy about altering animal genes to produce food. Possible euthanization of the nine so-called Enviropigs, descendants of swine first bred 13 years ago by the University

Crops, News

Dow’s new biotech corn enters final stage of regulatory approval

By Carey Gillam May 17, 2012

Reuters / A new biotech corn developed by Dow AgroSciences could answer the prayers of U.S. farmers plagued by a fierce epidemic of super-weeds. Or it could trigger a flood of dangerous chemicals that may make weeds even more resistant and damage other important U.S. crops. Or, it could do both. “Enlist,” entering the final

News

CFIA applies new rules to food importers

By Alex Binkley May 17, 2012

Two years after admitting that it didn’t have a registry of food importers, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is finally proposing to introduce a licensing regime for the estimated 25,000 businesses, which bring foreign-made food or beverages into Canada. The government announced a Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan in 2007, which was to include measures

Daily Network News

Despite cheaper land costs, Canadian farmers at slight revenue disadvantage to U.S.

Feed grain weekly: Western Canadian barley bids seasonally firm

China’s Q1 pork output up 4.2 per cent from a year earlier, lags expectations

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