Insights and Stories of Jennifer Blair

Jan. 13, 2014 at 3:58 am CST

The roof on Ken Munro’s machine shed looked fine when he drove past it on his way to work one morning earlier this month. But a text from his son told a different story. “It had collapsed in the middle of the night,” said Munro, an Innisfail-area grain farmer. Since […]

By Jennifer Blair

Jan. 3, 2014 at 3:23 pm CST

The leaders of Canada’s fractured beef sector need to work together and the rest of the industry needs to chip in more dollars for marketing and research, says a new report from a high-level task force. “We need to think as an industry, not just as sector components,” said marketing […]

By Glenn Cheater, Jennifer Blair

Nov. 29, 2013 at 7:26 pm CST

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has one thing to say about country-of-origin labelling (COOL): “It’s not cool.” In the midst of an appeal at the World Trade Organization to quash COOL in the United States, Ritz has been working to gain supporters in the U.S. in an effort to halt […]

By Jennifer Blair