Behind the noise of the Rob Ford controversy in Toronto and the Senate scandal in Ottawa, the Canadian government is angling to legislate the removal of a farmers’ right that should be non-negotiable. The federal government is moving quickly to implement the UPOV 91 plant breeders’ rights convention with first reading in Parliament of the […] Read more
Stories by Matt Gehl
Are our pensions retiring the family farm?
Pension funds have started buying up farmland around the world in recent years, seeing it as a safe, long-term investment. Farmland investment companies such as AgCapita, Assiniboia Capital, Bonnefield Financial and Prairie Merchants are sowing the seeds of speculation across the Prairies. Saskatchewan, with our low land prices and a farming population averaging 58 years […] Read more
