Livestock producers keeping close eye on welfare vote
Livestock producers – especially those who raise cattle – are watching closely as a potential timebomb ticks away…
Ready, set, grow says federal lender about food sector
Optimism is ringing through the halls of Farm Credit Canada, the country’s biggest agriculture and food sector lender,…
Let’s stop pretending climate change is not real
I walked downtown and back in a T-shirt Tuesday. A friend says he’s never seen his garden soil…
I hear the train a-comin’ – from Mexico
Sometime next year, the graffiti you see on railway cars passing through our area may well be in…
We’re not so good at reporting farm prevention
In keeping with the public’s growing interest in where food comes from and how it’s produced, maybe people…
Consumers will give approval to genetically altered livestock
Farmers have long insisted they should have a say in legislative matters affecting them. They want a place…
Agriculture needs to be understood, and then celebrated
Federal leaders are being tongue lashed in some media and farm circles for doing little more than mouth…
Consumers will thank you for embracing inclusion
Equality, inclusion and diversity (EID) are being embraced throughout society – and where they’re not, you have to…
Farming is being treated like a carbon liability
Many farmers and others in the agri-food community cringe at the idea of carbon pricing or a federal…
Farmers need mental health services just for them
Momentum is building for a comprehensive national mental health program specifically for Canadian farmers. It’s taken some five…