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VIDEO: 4-Hers assemble for global gathering
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VIDEO: 4-Hers assemble for global gathering

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For the first event of its kind to be held in Canada, 4-H delegates from around the world are in Ottawa July 11-14 attending the 2017 Global 4-H Summit. Topics will range from leadership to sustainable agriculture, science, health and environmentalism. Follow Manitoba Co-operator reporter Alexis Stockford on Twitter for quick updates from the summit.
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Growing pains for Canada’s agri-food sector

The federal budget injects some new life into Canada’s agricultural industries, but not enough funding or clarity

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Canada’s agri-food sector has underachieved for too long. The new federal budget gives the sector the opportunity to reimagine its potential. Finally, Ottawa wants to make the agri-food sector a place to invest and foster innovation. The Liberal government aims to increase Canada’s agri-food exports to at least $75 billion annually by 2025 (from $56
Bill Buckner at the Forum on Canada’s Agri-Food Future which recently took place in Ottawa.
Crops, Livestock

Business leaders debate what being a ‘trusted’ food supplier means

There is more that connects agri-food businesses in Canada than divides them

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For Michael McCain, the suggestion that Canada should become the world’s most trusted food system is a dangerous one. “Higher cost — in our view — will never be universally valued,” he told industry stakeholders and policy-makers at the Forum on Canada’s Agri-Food Future in Ottawa. “Because our marketplace… isn’t homogenous, and that’s where the
VIDEO: Agri-food brain trust gathers in Ottawa to ask tough questions
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VIDEO: Agri-food brain trust gathers in Ottawa to ask tough questions

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Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes travelled to Ottawa for the 2015 Forum on Canada’s Agri-food Future. The event — hosted by The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute — asked a provocative question: can and should Canada become the world’s most trusted food system? Industry stakeholders, policy makers and producers provided their answers as Canada’s role in the work
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the crowds outside Rideau Hall after the cabinet’s 
swearing-in ceremony in Ottawa November 4, 2015.
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Agri-food groups have a lot of new doorbells to ring

Several cabinet posts will have influence over how agriculture operates

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Agri-food groups will be introducing themselves to a lot of new cabinet ministers with whom they have had little contact before now. While Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay has been a Liberal MP from Prince Edward Island for 26 years and still lists his occupation as farmer, he is new to the agriculture portfolio. He served
VIDEO: Lawrence MacAulay sworn in
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VIDEO: Lawrence MacAulay sworn in

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Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes was on-hand in Ottawa as Canada’s new agriculture minister made his first public remarks on Parliament Hill. Lawrence MacAulay has represented Prince Edward Island in the House of Commons since 1988 was also a cabinet minister under Jean Chretien. He said his first order of business will be to meet
John De Pape discussed the cash grain price service he is working on for the Alberta Wheat Commission during the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting in April.
Crops, Grain Markets, News

Cash grain price service up and running

More information is coming

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Economists agree key to a successful open grain market is, well, openness, which includes easy access to accurate market information such as cash prices. To that end the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) launched the first phase of its free, new web-based Crop Data and Price Reporting initiative Sept. 8. Price & Data Quotes (PDQ) aims
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Elections and the value of showing up

If farmers don’t speak, it will be others, who may not understand our industry, who decide who goes to Ottawa

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There is an old saying in politics, “policy is set by those who show up.” Not always those with the best and brightest ideas and not even always a majority. The first and most important step on the road to being an influencer is to show up. Canadians will elect a new House of Commons

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