Insights and Stories on General

Dec. 10, 2012 at 8:58 am CST

A temporary outage on one of our systems over the weekend led to some Daily News articles not appearing on our individual publications’ websites. Check them out here: Ritz previews three new ‘Agri-‘ programsThe sequel to Growing Forward is going to introduce three new characters — all of whom will […]

Dec. 7, 2012 at 5:35 pm CST

GF2's AgriInnovation, AgriMarketing and AgriCompetitiveness are to debut April 1.

Nov. 30, 2012 at 4:59 pm CST

They weren’t shying away from the big issues at the recent Organic Connections conference here: one renowned sustainable farming expert declared the days of "cheap" energy to be coming to an end. "It’s not a question of exactly when we run out of oil, natural gas, or coal — it’s […]

By Daniel Winters

Nov. 27, 2012 at 6:10 pm CST

Brazil has something to tout at global climate change talks that began this week in Doha: destruction of the world’s largest rainforest is still slowing at a record pace. Data released Tuesday suggests destruction of Amazon woodlands has slowed to the lowest rate since monitoring began in 1988. The figures, […]

Nov. 27, 2012 at 3:44 am CST

An increase of nearly 12 per cent in farm cash receipts in 2011 over 2010, against an 8.4 per cent rise in farm operating expenses, helped lead to a year-over-year increase of over 50 per cent in Canadian farmers’ realized net income, according to Statistics Canada. Realized net income for […]