TPP

New Youth Council Will Help Shape The Sector

Young women and men who are passionate about the agriculture and agri-food sector have a new opportunity to provide advice on issues that matter to them — sustainable agriculture, market…

Trade Deals Are Not Saving Canadian Exporters From Death By A Thousand Regulations

Bob Lowe has spent the past 40 years raising cattle on his farm near Alberta’s foothills. In that time, he reckons his beef has been exported to just about every…

Canadian Organization Joins the Movement to Support the Cellular Agriculture Industry

Cultured meat is the game-changing technology of creating meat using cells and not farm animals. This revolutionary process could stem the tide of climate change, spare billions of animals from…

FCC Identifies Global Trade Tensions as Key Factor to Watch in 2020

The Chief Agricultural Economist with Farm Credit Canada is advising Canadian agriculture sector stakeholders to pay close attention to developments on the global trade front during 2020 By Bruce Cochrane…

UK Looks to Canada for EU Deal Template

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pitched two models for his country’s trade ties with the European Union after Brexit: a deal based on the EU’s accord with Canada, or…

Paradise Lost Looms for German Farmers as Swine Fever Nears

The German state of Brandenburg has erected about 120 km (75 miles) of electric fencing to prevent wild boars infected with African swine fever (ASF) from straying across the border…

Farming Family Warning Others After Bank Accounts Emptied in Port-Out Scam

A family of Saskatchewan farmers is sounding the alarm bell after they had hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from their family farm’s bank account, and they say they’re not…

USask Livestock Researchers Awarded Nearly $7M to Improve Food Sustainability and Safety

Twenty University of Saskatchewan (USask) projects have been awarded nearly $7 million through a joint federal-provincial government funding program to advance cattle, swine, and poultry research Investment from the province’s…

Beyond Meat Products Pulled from Tim Hortons Restaurants

Tim Hortons has pulled Beyond Meat products off the menus in the last provinces where it still sold the trendy plant-based protein, less than a year after a national roll…

Industry Groups Pressuring Parliament to Promptly Pass USMCA

A number of important industry groups, including some who represent agricultural producers, are calling on the House of Commons to quickly ratify the new North America trade agreement By Charlie…

Canadian Pig Production Practices Survey for Improved Economic and Environmental Viability Ready for Launch

A multidisciplinary team of Scientists working on behalf of Swine Innovation Porc is set to launch an economic and environmental survey of Canadian pork producers By Bruce Cochrane – FarmScape…

Agri-Food Exporters Welcome Commitment to Negotiate a Multi- Country Interim Arbitration Arrangement

Dan Darling, President of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) today issued the following statement regarding news that Canada and multiple other countries are committing to negotiate an interim arbitration…

New Digital Agri Auction Design Can Increase Family Farm Revenue

Agriculture is a significant part of the economy in most developing countries, yet many farmers persistently struggle with poverty. A key challenge is the lack of infrastructure to improve market…

How P.E.I. Could Help With an Increased Demand for Beef

The Maritime Beef Council says demand for beef is going up, and P.E.I. might be able to help meet that demand by Travis Kingdon – CBC News “We’re actually seeing…

Trudeau Wants USMCA Deal Ratified Quickly

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday urged legislators to quickly approve a new continental trade pact but the main opposition party said it wanted to study the deal, indicating…

Canada’s Agriculture Day Aims to Strengthen Consumer-Producer Relationship

Canadians are being asked to raise a fork to Canadian agriculture as part of a national social media campaign to celebrate Canada’s Agriculture Day on February 11 Canada’s Agriculture Day…

Ottawa Getting Ready to Launch Multimillion-Dollar Buy Canadian Food Campaign

Do you know where your food comes from? The federal government is getting ready to roll out a five-year, multimillion-dollar ad campaign this summer in the hope that teaching the…

Easy Ways to Protect Your Farm’s Data

As technology use on the farm grows digital information also increases, heightening the need to protect that valuable information by Craig Lester – Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Ransomware is a…

Computer Modelling Offers Advance Warning pf PED Breaks

The Executive Director of the Swine Health Information Center reports it’s now possible to use the swine health information being provided voluntarily by swine producers to predict when a farm…

Senate Passes North America Trade Deal but Canada Still Has to Approve

The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a revamp of the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement that includes tougher rules on labor and automotive content but leaves $1.2 trillion in…

Our December 2024 Issue

In our December 2024 issue we look at the Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement, Federal funding for the Cattle Industry’s Improvement initiatives, Ontario’s Agritourism Sector, Cargill cutting jobs, A&W tackling food waste, Consumer Trust over Climate Optics, the rising cost of doing business, and much more!