V-day for farm workers in Ontario

The recent victory in the Ontario Court of Appeal allowing farm workers to form unions and bargain collectively comes after a long, protracted, and exhausting battle to give them the same rights as other workers. Farm workers carry out some of the most dangerous, difficult, and dirty jobs in the country, under conditions most Canadians

EU reforms cut subsidies to big farms

European Union governments agreed Nov. 20 to divert chunks of long-standing subsidies enjoyed by large farms into countryside preservation schemes in the biggest revamp of farm policies for five years. The early-morning deal came after concessions given by EU Agr icul ture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, most notably to France, Germany and Italy, in an


Soil science prof joins Agri-Trend

Soil scientist Geza Racz, a professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and former head of its soil science department, has joined Agri-Trend Agrology as a senior agri-coach. Racz’s fields of expertise and research are in the reactions and fate of various elements in soil – nitrogen, phosphorus and minor elements such as zinc and