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Need to promote, educate and automate to address worker gap
Monday’s announcement that Mexico is going to stop sending temporary workers to Canadian farms that have registered a COVID-19 outbreak is totally understandable, although very…
Do you have the right to go onto a farm whenever you want?
A fundamental lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that humans can be disease carriers, as well as victims, and that precautions must be taken to…
Stories about Ontario’s rural rebound will be a page turner
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed almost everything, except resolve. Even though we’ve entered our third month of physical distancing and various measures of isolation, for…
Still too many close calls and safety issues for farmers
The COVID-19 pandemic fallout – in particular, the food shortages we’ve experienced in some commodities, due to either increased demand or decreased processing capacity –…
Frontline food workers to Ontario: We’re here for you
We’re pretty attached to our neighbourhood butcher. He’s always been renowned for quality, let alone service and friendliness. And now, throughout the pandemic, he’s become…
Tree planting is cool. So why not crop planting
Arguments over whether international workers or homegrown Canadians should provide the labour to grow our crops and raise our livestock fizzle when the rubber hits…
Why $252 million for farming and food is only a start
On Tuesday, about an hour after the federal government announced a $252-million, pandemic-related aid package for Canadian farmers, Ontario’s minister of agriculture, food and rural…
Maybe the pandemic means soil will get some respect
National Soil Conservation Week has come and gone without much fanfare … even though soil is absolutely fundamental to our food supply. This year, soil’s…
Will we now agree to pay more for food?
Our country’s main farm organization, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, says that if the federal government doesn’t create an emergency funding package for farmers, our…
Let’s put milk dumping in perspective
Nothing could be more unfathomable than dumping food when store shelves are emptying, especially in the face of this pandemic that our modern world has…
