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Grain, seed corn growers get access to seasonal worker program

Maple syrup also added to national commodity list

Growers of grains, oilseeds and seed corn and maple syrup producers may be able to get in on the federal Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) for the 2021 season. Federal Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough announced Nov. 27 the national commodity list (NCL) would be expanded to include seed corn, oil seed, grains and maple syrup

Crops

New federal standard to expand beer ingredient options

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff May 20, 2019

More variety in allowable ingredients and more requirements for declarations are now part of the federal rules on what can be called beer in Canada. The federal government on May 1 announced “modernized” beer standards under Canada’s Food and Drug Regulations (FDR) — the rules laying out the requirements to be met by a product

Crops

With maple syrup tariff, Canada-U.S. trade dispute spills beyond metals

By Allison Martell, GFM Network News June 4, 2018

Toronto | Reuters — Canada’s retaliation against U.S. President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs includes proposed duties on U.S. maple syrup, a nod to a national symbol and a powerful industry in Quebec that could hurt producers in Maine. While small in dollar value, the tariff shows how Canada’s retaliation has turned a dispute

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Syrup-titiously delicious

Maple syrup is good for our precarious planet’s forests too

By Lorraine Stevenson December 9, 2016

Some grumble when the snow arrives, but not members of the Pumpkin Creek Ski Club at Roseisle. They rejoice, naturally. They also start leaving treats on members’ doorsteps — cans of pure maple syrup, sold as club fundraisers. Those cute little cans signal the start of ski season, and time to enjoy hearty breakfasts of

Comment, Opinion

Marketing boards are failing Canadians

By Sylvain Charlebois May 3, 2016

Canada’s agriculture marketing boards are showing signs of obsolescence, forcing commodity groups to consider desperate measures. Certainly, given the economic conditions of the last century, forming marketing boards made perfect sense. Marketing boards and agencies were designed to sell agricultural commodities throughout Canada and to the world. They were also intended to protect farmers from

Jakobi Maendel, five, loves to help gather the sap.

Country Crossroads

Maple syrup ritual spurs childhood memories

When my sister makes maple syrup every spring, she also recreates treasured memories from my childhood

By Linda Maendel April 20, 2016

Every spring a corner of our backyard is transformed into a scene that could be from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. Two columns of bricks create a makeshift stove, over which giant rectangular pans sit atop a steel table-like structure. Barrels of scrap hardwood, collected throughout winter at our carpenter shop especially for this,

Crops, Weather

N.S. fruit, maple syrup producers get AgriRecovery

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 1, 2016

The federal and Nova Scotia provincial governments will put up AgriRecovery funding for tree fruit growers dealing with fire blight, and maple syrup producers dealing with snow damage. The two governments on Tuesday announced separate AgriRecovery programs, budgeted at up to $2.69 million for fruit growers and up to $950,000 for maple syrup producers. The

News

Pancake puzzler: Maple syrup heist baffles Quebec

By Julie Gordon September 17, 2012

Thieves in Quebec may have pulled off the sweetest heist of all time, siphoning off a reservoir of maple syrup from a warehouse and cleverly covering up their caper to evade detection, an industry group said Aug. 31. The warehouse in rural Quebec held more than $30 million worth of maple syrup, a whopping 10

News

Half-step for Product of Canada labels

By Alex Binkley June 5, 2012

Agriculture Canada is stepping up its promotion of a Canada Brand program to help identify Canadian food products for consumers at home and abroad. The government is supporting pilot projects in a select group of stores across the country with Canadian products marked with a special red maple leaf label. But the program only works

Beef cattle, Livestock, Other livestock

Ontario Farmer Sees The Light And Sells The View

By Laura Rance September 29, 2011

The way Rod Potter and his crew of friends and neighbours sprang into action as two tourist buses rolled down the hill into his southern Ontario farmyard, you d think it was the first day of harvest. In one respect, it was. Potter may be the fifth generation on his family s farm, but he

Major flour miller to buy U.S. chickpea processor

Wet or dry spring ahead? Depends on where in Canada

Spanish report calls for cull of over 850 cattle on pariah ship

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