More than 40,000 young women supported the war effort between the 1940s and early 1950s, helping grow and harvest crops amid labour shortages. They were called Farmerettes.
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The forced Japanese-Canadian farmers of the Second World War
Manitoba’s sugar beet farms drew on displaced Japanese-Canadians from B.C. during the Second World War
Canada’s ‘Harvest for Victory’ in the Second World War
Propaganda posters celebrating farming show the legacy of Canadian agriculture during the Second World War.
Middle Eastern turmoil uppends markets
The main impact on Western Canadian agriculture could be from increased input costs including diesel and fertilizer
The main impact of the conflict on Western Canadian agriculture will be from increased input costs.
Mideast war, U.S. biofuel policy and weather stack more uncertainty on an already stressful year
Canola is being supported by drought conditions and expectations that the old-crop carry-in to the new crop year would smaller than normal
War between Israel and Iran forced oil prices higher last week, but had only modest impact on crop prices.
