Over the past decade or more, value-added processing has become a buzzword in prairie agriculture. Farmers have often bemoaned the fact that they are selling raw agricultural commodities at little or no profit, while food processing companies seem to get the lion’s share of the consumer’s dollar. These days some farmers are attempting to climb the value chain by processing and marketing their own products. But processing and marketing require vastly different skills than growing a crop.
In this special report, Saskatoon reporter Sean Pratt talks to prairie farmers who have tried to secure a livelihood in what some are calling the new agriculture.
