Reading Time: 3 minutes The marketplace for precision agriculture technology is sorting itself out, but it still has a way to go before it will be mature and have predictable uses for farmers, says a U.S. agriculture economist. Dr. Keith Coble, chair of the Mississippi State University’s department of agricultural economics, says we’re in the “overexuberance” phase of technology […] Read more
Greig: Farmer trust key to big data’s future
Greig: Late spring planting means more soybeans in Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario farmers are stopped across most of the province as consistently wet weather holds up planting and pushes farmers to plant more soybeans instead of corn. Significantly higher than normal rain in southern Ontario and record rainfall between Toronto and Ottawa mean that near the end of May, corn planting isn’t complete and there remains […] Read more
Ontario’s dairy group names new GM
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) has found its new general manager within the organization. Graham Lloyd, the organization’s general counsel, secretary to the board and director of communications, is the new general manager, replacing Peter Gould, the organization’s long-time manager. Gould, trained as an economist, has been with DFO since 1981 and has been the […] Read more
Eggplant value chain project replaces most imports
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian-grown eggplant and okra have replaced about 800,000 kg of imports over the past several years, creating a research-to-grower-to-market success story. The Vineland Research and Innovation Centre has played a central role helping with research and bringing together the parts of the industry needed to create a food chain success. The eggplant and okra case […] Read more
Greig: Animal welfare research focusing more on emotional states
Reading Time: 3 minutes Animal welfare research is moving beyond identifying what keeps an animal healthy, to focus more on their state of being and their happiness. For years, farmers have justified the way they manage and house animals based on objective measures of their health: disease prevalence, growth rates and feed consumption. Consumer research, however, shows that’s not […] Read more
VIDEO: Evaluating animal welfare
Reading Time: < 1 minute Glacier FarmMedia reporter John Greig speaks with Ed Pajor about how animal welfare researchers are moving from evaluating welfare based on health to the emotional state of animals.
VIDEO: Defining food fraud
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sylvain Charlebois, Dean of the School of Management at Dalhousie University and food systems expert, says food fraud is becoming a greater public concern and consumers are just beginning to learn what it actually means.
Greig: Food fraud a challenge to whole food supply chain
Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers are used to the conversation about how to manage trust with consumers. Food companies are learning it too, and finding food fraud to be a significant concern. Food fraud “comes back to trust,” according to Renata McGuire of NSF Consulting and Technical Services. “Do I trust this brand?” McGuire, along with Sylvain Charlebois, dean […] Read more
VIDEO: Food and farmers at SIAL 2017
Reading Time: < 1 minute John Greig, Ontario field editor for Glacier FarmMedia, takes in the SIAL food industry trade show in Toronto, Ont., and speaks with a few of the exhibitors showcasing their products.
VIDEO: Wet fields in southern Ontario delaying planting
Reading Time: < 1 minute While at least one crop appears to be benefitting from the overly wet conditions in southern Ontario, corn and soybean growers are seeing their planting efforts delayed because of too much rain and wet soils. John Greig, reporter with Glacier FarmMedia, shows you some of the conditions farmers in southern Ontario are facing.
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