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Recent legislation may not keep negotiators from discussing supply management, experts say
U.S. Great Plains farmers skipping the cereal in favour of more profitable crops
Hybridization and an extensive crop plot research across Western Canada increased the crop's resiliency
Like Cinderella, canola could be beautiful and impressive, but if the weather clock struck midnight, it would end up in rags, trapped in a pumpkin surrounded by lizards and rats. That was the canola crops of the 1980s and 1990s, which were generally viewed as the most fragile and undependable crops in farmers’ fields, able […] Read more
At the Ag In Motion farm show, companies describe premiums available to farmers
Canola growers have choices when it comes to trying to get a premium for proving they farm sustainably. Most of the major seed providers are putting together programs that reward farmers for operating in a manner that allows food companies and others to plausibly claim that their crops don’t hurt the planet. Other stories in […] Read more
SGS Canada had its critics when it set out to replace grain commission inspections, but the business model worked
Twenty-five years ago, Fraser Gilbert saw an opportunity nobody else did. Lots of people thought he was dead wrong when the former top grain quality man from the Canadian Grain Commission decided to plunge into the CGC’s traditional role of inland grain inspections and offer a private sector alternative. Today, many now expect that alternative […] Read more
Indigenous group has an important historical connection to Prairie farming, but opportunities remain elusive today
This is the last story in a series looking into the pools of human talent within Canada’s population that could help fill the growing labour shortage that is crippling many farms. David Beaudin has a joke that combines his two responsibilities in the Manitoba Metis Federation: “Our kids can be involved in any work they […] Read more
