A bearded middle-aged man wearing glasses and a tam-style hat picks up a package of wieners in a WalMart grocery store.

Food exporters urged to ease reliance on U.S.

A Farm Credit Canada analysis of trade in the food and beverage sector examined ways to diversify markets

Farm Credit Canada says there is a $12 billion opportunity in diversifying food and beverage exports to markets other than the United States.


The CFIA has mandated a new pre-chill microbiological monitoring program to enhance safety in Canadian poultry. Photo: Stephen Ausmus/ARS/USDA

CFIA raw poultry policy to tighten food safety

Canadian poultry slaughterhouses will have to test carcasses for pathogens before chilling when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s new pre-chill policy comes into force Dec. 1, 2025.

Photograph of fresh pickle chips.

How counter-tariff policy cans Canadian choice

Op-Ed: The cross-border travels of Bick’s pickles turn sour for consumers and producers

The unavailability of the storied Canadian pickle brand Bick’s, now processed and jarred in the U.S., shows how well-intentioned counter-tariff policy can turn sour on Canada’s consumers and cucumber growers.


An exterior photo of the sign on Baldio restaurant in Mexico City.

Restaurant blends zero waste, ancient farming

The Mexico City establishment has found ways to reuse every scrap of food and leftovers for other purposes

A Mexico City restaurant has become a draw for its zero-waste kitchen, which means that every scrap of food and leftovers is reused for other purposes.




Left to right: Fred Greig, Cathey Day and Kim McConnell, recipients of this year's Certificate of Merit awards from the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Photo: Submitted

University of Manitoba honours three agricultural alumni

Cathey Day, Fred Greig and Kim McConnell recently received certificates of merit from the University of Manitoba

Cathey Day, Fred Greig and Kim McConnell were chosen for the University of Manitoba’s 2025 certificates of merit from the agricultural and food sciences faculty.

A few of the jarred product offerings that Rebekah Sandford sells from Prairie Winds Garlic Farm. Photo:

Growing garlic by the thousands in Manitoba

How does this Manitoba farm grow garlic? Row by row to the tune of 28,000 plants, and sometimes more

Grower holds a planting party day every fall as a crowd gathers to help put 28,000 plants, and sometimes more, into theground