Organic food Archives - Page 7 of 16

Organic forage seed a hot market

By Daniel Winters May 4, 2012

The market for organic forage seed is currently undersupplied and offers large and growing demand over the next few years. It’s such a good business, said Laura Telford, a MAFRI organic specialist, that even people who hate organic can’t resist its allure. In preparation for her presentation on marketing opportunities at the Portage Food Development

News, Opinion

Here’s your chance

By Laura Rance-Unger April 30, 2012

It’s a common rant in the coffee shops and at the microphone of farm meetings. It’s been the subject of conferences and multi-stakeholder think-tanks. People outside of agriculture just don’t understand what it means to be a farmer. Farm Credit Canada recently consulted with its Farm Vision Panel on the matter and came up with

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Organic grain growers: Turning to “speed dating” to meet buyers

By Daniel Winters April 30, 2012

Growing organic crops can be tough. Finding reliable buyers even tougher. A recent matchmaking event was aimed at helping the two sides of the organic supply-and-demand equation meet in the hopes that the industry might go forth, be fruitful, and multiply. “It’s speed dating,” said Laura Telford, an organic business development specialist with Manitoba

Cereals, Livestock, News

Naked oats tested for organic chickens

April 20, 2012

Scientists with Ohio State University have received a four-year, US$896,000 Department of Agriculture grant to study the feasibility of incorporating “naked oats” into organic farming rotations as a way to cut the cost of producing organic chicken. The oats, which have a unique protein and amino acid balance, will be tested in the diets of

News

U.S. organic growers appeal court ruling

By Carey Gillam April 15, 2012

A group of U.S. family farmers said March 28 it is appealing its lawsuit against Monsanto Co. to challenge the company’s patents on technologies for genetically modified seeds. The group of organic farmers and seed dealers says its industry is at risk from Monsanto’s growing market dominance. “Farmers are under threat. Our right to farm

News

Better times ahead for organic farmers held on through downturn

By Daniel Winters March 29, 2012

The recession has taken its toll on Canada’s certified organic sector, but the worst may already be over. The number of Canadian certified organic farms peaked at 3,914 in 2009. Then the recession hit and that number fell 4.5 per cent nationwide, with a 16 per cent plunge in Saskatchewan, once home to the largest

News

Food panel releases first study results

By Lorraine Stevenson March 29, 2012

Eating out appears to be a once-a-week occasion for most Manitobans. We have strong views about local food but differing definitions of what “local” means. Most of us have never eaten buckwheat, hemp or flax-based foods. And while a little over 40 per cent of Manitobans buy organic food, an equal number don’t think organic

News

OPAM trims costs to be more competitive

By Daniel Winters March 23, 2012

Streamlined operations and paperwork put Manitoba’s only homegrown  organic certifying body back on the road to financial health

Manitoba’s own organic certification body is well on its way back to financial health. The Organic Producers of Manitoba, founded in 2005, was hit by a cash crunch as organic’s boom years ground to a halt, said president Edward Lelond. “We were anticipating growth before it happened, and then we hit the recession of 2008,”

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Organic research achieving critical mass in science

By Martin Entz March 14, 2012

The modern organic agriculture movement started 100 years ago. Sir Albert Howard was an English mycologist who served as the imperial economic botanist to the government of India between 1905 and 1924. He was fascinated by the indigenous practices of Indian farmers, whom he called his professors. His 1940 book, An Agricultural Testament, has become

Crops, Forages, News

Weeds helped save his farm

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

Weeds aren’t always a farmer’s enemy. Sometimes they’re an ally. Grant Rigby says weeds helped him tackle soil salinity on his farm near Killarney and led him into organic agriculture. “The fundamental reason I dropped herbicide spraying was to allow plants to live on those areas of the farm where the crops I planted were

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Tag Archives Organic food — page 7

Organic forage seed a hot market

Here’s your chance

Organic grain growers: Turning to “speed dating” to meet buyers

Naked oats tested for organic chickens

U.S. organic growers appeal court ruling

Better times ahead for organic farmers held on through downturn

Food panel releases first study results

OPAM trims costs to be more competitive

Organic research achieving critical mass in science

Weeds helped save his farm

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