Reading Time: 2 minutes Pushing pulses as an environmental solution can be risky
Pulse sector fights anti-green trend
U.S. president Trump has attacked the sustainability movement, but a major pulse player urges investors to stick with the industry
Confused by Trump’s tariffs? Better ask a lawyer
A Canadian law firm is using its website in an attempt to make sense of the ongoing and difficult to understand trade chaos
Reading Time: 3 minutes Osler, a business law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, attempted to make sense of the ongoing trade chaos in a June 3 post on its website.
Editor’s Note: No pressure
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is your playbook going into this year’s crop? Not an easy question to answer right now, given the global trade turbulence. As Evan Shout writes in The Farmer’s Playbook, volatility is likely to be the most-used word in agriculture this year. But, he writes, it’s also during down times that some farmers are able […] Read more
OPINION: Canadian food self-sufficiency starts by empowering farmers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada's egg farmers are looking to our leaders to show their strong support for the supply managed egg sector, which delivers stability and self-sufficiency to our food system.
Editor’s Note: Ten years in
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ten years into any career can be a satisfying milestone. It can also be frustrating. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, as it’s been 10 years since my first novel was published. Since then, I’ve written a second, which was also published, and had plans for writing a third. But after the second […] Read more
Editor’s Note: How farmers and ag businesses are navigating change
Reading Time: 3 minutes I once asked someone I admired for advice on building a successful career. He told me, basically, to be adaptable. Great advice, but, like so many things, easier said than done. I’m sure he knew that, too. Still, like so much in life, it starts with mindset. If you don’t see any need to change, […] Read more
ANALYSIS: Carney bypasses U.S. in first trip as PM
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the trade war rages and the U.S. administration continues to threaten Canadian sovereignty, it’s no surprise Mark Carney is bypassing Washington and heading to Europe on his first international trip as prime minister.
Lutnick suggests U.S. to eventually make new bilateral trade deals
Minnesota governor says the U.S. has become untrustworthy
Reading Time: 3 minutes As NATO secretary general Mark Rutte sat quietly beside U.S. president Donald Trump in an Oval Office press conference March 13, the president declared that Canada, a key NATO nation, should willingly submit to American dominance.
OPINION: Living month to month in the tariff era
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just one day after implementing an across-the-board 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports, U.S. president Donald Trump has changed his mind.
Editor’s Note: Writing your life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — The Summer Day, Mary Oliver What are the ingredients of a successful multigenerational farm, or ag business? Or book or film or other creative project? They have more in common than you might think. It starts, I think, […] Read more
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