Federal, provincial and territorial governments are working on renewing Canada’s agri-food policy with the current agreement (Growing Forward 2) expiring in 2018. But what kind of new agreement will we have for 2018? Will it be a retrofit of our existing set of programs with changes in design and budget, or will it be a […] Read more
Stories by Al Mussell
BRM program costs, tradeoffs explored
This is an excerpt from The Business Risk Management Funding Debate in Canada: Understanding the Broader Context, a paper written by Al Mussell of the George Morris Centre. As we move toward the anticipated renewal of Growing Forward, the omnibus federal –provincial agreement on agricultural policy in 2013, the focus has moved to business risk […] Read more
Ethanol, livestock: a poor combo – Opinion
Mussell is a senior research associate at the George Morris Centre in Guelph, Ont. Hedley is an independent consultant. In the Nov. 6 issue of The Western Producer, it was asserted by Gordon Quaiattini, president of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, that biofuel plants are good for the livestock industry. Few things could be further […] Read more
