Reading Time: 4 minutes Do family farms matter? It feels like they should, and there is a sentiment among the Canadian public that the family farm is a good thing. Most policy-makers too profess support for the family farm. But still, the family farm has been travelling a rocky road for decades and a glance at the trends in […] Read more
Kimberley Love and Glen Drummond wrap up their four-part series by asking: Will the family farm survive?
Parliament is voting on whether we need more efficient distribution of stabilization. Shouldn’t we talk about why stabilization efforts keep failing?
Reading Time: 3 minutes We ve all sung it. The old folk song begins with Lisa complaining to her husband that there s a hole in her bucket. Successive repairs are tried, but as the song concludes, it all becomes clear. Dear Henry can t fix the hole in the bucket because, well, there s a hole in the […] Read more
The oil shocks of the 1970s were OPEC manipulation. Now there’s a different kind of oil crunch coming…
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is the first in a four-part series by contributing writers Glen Drummond and Kimberley Love on the forces shaping farming and the rural experience. Drummond consults on innovation and clean technology. Love is a former Bay Street communications consultant and is a federal Liberal candidate in Grey Bruce Owen Sound. Married in 1994, they […] Read more
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