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Reading Time: 2 minutes EDMONTON, ALBERTA It’s called speed dating, the hot Gen Y trend that’s being adapted to pair local-food farmers with buyers. We checked it out in Calgary too, and also in Guelph, and everywhere we went, local-food farmers were being overwhelmed by urban demand. Says Kate Vsteula: “If you need proof that local food is more […] Read more
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The bell is set to ring. Five minutes is all you get to make the first impression that might end up making your farm. Care to dance?

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Reading Time: 8 minutes GUIDEPOSTS They’re standing-room only, virtually every time. Whether you’re in Alberta or maybe in Ontario, wherever local-food organizers put on speed-dating events, they’re jam-packed. Even better, the mix of “girls and boys” is exactly what farmers want, with eager food buyers outnumbering the farmers often by three to one, and sometimes more. Marlene Abrams of […] Read more
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It may look like just a corn eating contest. But in Taber, Alta., it’s symbolic of a whole lot more, especially the tight links between farm and town that are making both more prosperous Taber Town

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Reading Time: 10 minutes GUIDEPOSTS Agriculture reigns in Taber and everybody knows it the minute they hit the town limits. Driving in from the west, you pass the usual restaurants and gas stations, but mostly you notice the farm equipment dealers and agri-businesses standing shoulder to shoulder along Highway 3. Or if you make the trip in from the […] Read more
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GROW SASKATOON

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Saskatchewan has one of the most innovative bioscience clusters in the world,” beams a proud Bob Bjornerud, the province’s minister of agriculture. Saskatchewan is home to 30 per cent of Canada’s ag biotech industry, along with row after row of crops and genetics companies. But if Saskatchewan is hot, Saskatoon is exploding. Bjornerud credits it […] Read more
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Company Men

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Guideposts The prevailing wisdom seems to be that this operation will be like so many others, a brief flash in the pan followed by a quick collapse, and then maybe a chance to pick up a tractor or combine on the cheap at the auction sale. At coffee shops, elevators and kitchen tables, and on […] Read more
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Plain, NOT SIMPLE

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Reading Time: 12 minutes GUIDEPOSTS What I hadn’t expected was how easy it would be for a journalist they’d never met to arrange a visit. When I cold-called James Hofer, the hog manager of Starlite Colony, a Hutterite community near Starbuck just 40 minutes from the bustle of downtown Winnipeg, I wasn’t sure how he’d respond. Would a group […] Read more
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Ontario’s Dairy Jewel

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Reading Time: 11 minutes My father heaved great sighs as we drove along. In the seat beside him, I was a young girl accompanying her Dad to dairy cattle sales in Tavistock, in the heart of Ontario’s Oxford county, and already I knew that these were sighs mixed with admiration and jealousy. “Ohh,” he would say, “see the corn […] Read more
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UP UP AND AWAY

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Reading Time: 10 minutes You’re hearing it here first. No one outside agriculture seems to know about it (at least, none of the journalists who write front-page stories or who lead off on CBC broadcasts). Canada’s ag exports through the past year and a half have been blistering. New statistics from the red-hot 2007-08 trading year show exports shot […] Read more
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Farm Team

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Reading Time: 5 minutes About 15 minutes outside Thunder Bay, Henry Staal and his brother Gary operate Sunshine Sod Farms. You might call it their own field of dreams. Or maybe it should be Canada’s field of dreams. The Staals’ father came to Canada from Holland in 1952, worked hard, saved, bought a farm in 1960, and then worked […] Read more
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Young Maritime farmers including Nova Scotia’s Justin Beck are looking for a reason to hope

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s a struggle. Transportation costs, spiralling debt and increased competition from other regions are hitting hard at the birthplace of Canadian agriculture. Farm numbers are dwindling, few young people let themselves even dream about staying on the farm, and everywhere you go, there’s continuous speculation about what lies ahead. A 2008 GPI Atlantic report says […] Read more

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