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Minogue: Impacts from AgriStability reform may be major

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) on Sept. 14 announced changes to Canada’s farm programs for 2013. While several details have yet to be nailed down or announced, it is clear that these changes will mean a less lucrative program for Canadian farmers. For the past few months, farmers have been aware of the federal government’s […] Read more
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Across Canada in a farmhouse: Victoria to Mile Zero

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Among our many farm visits over the past week, our stop at Vantreight Farms was particularly interesting. This approximately-150-acre property (that’s a really big farm in these parts) produces a pretty vast array of goods, not least being daffodils. In fact, this farm is the single largest producer of daffodils (some fourteen varieties) in Canada […] Read more
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New federal food safety, veterinary chiefs named

Reading Time: 2 minutes The federal government has named two new chiefs to replace the veterinarian doing double duty as Canada’s chief food safety officer and chief veterinary officer. Dr. Martine Dubuc, currently the vice-president of science at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, becomes Canada’s chief food safety officer on top of her previous duties. Meanwhile, Dr. Ian Alexander, […] Read more
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Across Canada in a farmhouse: Delta to Victoria

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The regional municipality of Delta, B.C. lies south of Richmond, at the mouth of the Fraser River. Long-time residents say this area once felt quite isolated — prior to construction of the George Massey Tunnel in 1959. These days it feels more like a very "roomy" suburb; the Vancouver skyline is pretty easy to spot […] Read more
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France calls emergency G20 ag meeting for mid-October

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Reading Time: 3 minutes France has called an emergency meeting of G20 farm ministers for mid-October to discuss curbing price swings on grain markets, the French president’s office said, after a year of drought and record prices renewed fears of a crisis in food supplies. France currently presides over a grains body created last year under the Group of […] Read more
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Across Canada in a farmhouse: Revelstoke to Vancouver

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Locals jokingly call it "Revelstuck." People apparently end up stranded here quite routinely — probably because it snows so bloody much, but not always for that reason. As readers already know, we too were "Revelstuck" for a bit. Make no mistake, however, it was no fault of Revelstoke, B.C.; this pretty little town that kneels […] Read more
Ag groups wary of GF2’s risk management funding cuts
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Ag groups wary of GF2’s risk management funding cuts

Reading Time: 4 minutes Agreement among Canada’s sitting agriculture ministers on the content of their next five-year policy framework has farm groups concerned about how to manage future risk, if or when the commodity boom becomes a bubble. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his counterparts from all provinces and territories — except Quebec, now in between ag ministers after […] Read more
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Prairie farmland values soar as growers expand

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Western Canadian farmland is soaring in value, as farmers expand their lands and look to cash in on high crop prices, a report by real estate organization Re/Max said Monday. The price of high-end grain-producing land in southern Saskatchewan has jumped 20 per cent on average from last year to a range of $1,200 to […] Read more
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World food prices stabilize, but UN urges action

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Reading Time: 3 minutes World food prices stabilized in August at levels close to those reached in the food crisis of 2008, and global grain stocks are likely to shrink this year as cereal crop output falls short of what is needed, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) director-general Jose […] Read more

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