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.
VIDEO: Defining food fraud
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.
When a grain silo collapses
This silo collapse raises the question: Do you know what your first step would be in the event of major building failure?
Reading Time: 5 minutes On November 1 last year, when Martin and Teresa Van Raay’s 100-foot-tall steel silo smashed to the ground, it set off a flurry of activity that involved their suppliers, friends and fellow farmers. In the end, it reinforced their faith in their community’s ability to come together at a time of crisis, but that’s not […] Read more
Ontario budget seeks tax flexibility for on-farm processing
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Ontario government has balanced its budget for the first time in since 2008 — but Thursday’s budget contained little news for agriculture and rural Ontario. Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s budget mostly highlighted agriculture programs that had already been announced, and maintains $100 million in funding for the provincial Risk Management Program, which helps offsets […] Read more
Ontario tomato farmers to get less on higher yields
Reading Time: 2 minutes The agreement between Ontario growers and tomato processors for the 2017 growing season is expected to drop the price tomato farmers are paid as their yields increase. The agreement, announced last week, maintains the contracted tonnage of 2016 and follows the five-year pricing agreement set by growers and processors last year. Final prices, however, aren’t […] Read more
Ontario greenhouse growers get competitiveness fund
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Ontario government is putting $19 million into a new initiative to support the competitiveness of the greenhouse sector in the province. Provincial Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal announced the funding on Thursday at Link Greenhouse near Bowmanville, just east of Oshawa. The Greenhouse Competitiveness and Innovation Initiative aims to provide funding for the creation of […] Read more
Ontario processing tomato contracts set
Reading Time: 2 minutes An agreement has been reached between growers and processors of Ontario tomatoes for the 2017 growing season, maintaining the 2016 pricing agreement and 2016 contract tonnage. Final prices, however, weren’t released Friday, as they historically have been on the website of the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers (OPVG). According to the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Processing […] Read more
Take advantage of growth, guard against risk with new U.S. regime: Frum
Reading Time: 3 minutes Political commentator David Frum says there’s good, bad and potentially ugly for Canadian farmers in the United States’ new and unpredictable Trump administration. Frum, a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine and, more recently, an owner of Ontario farmland, told the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic in London recently that global markets have been […] Read more
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