Insights and Stories on General

May. 25, 2012 at 4:05 am CDT

Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled $14.4 billion during the first quarter of this year, up 16.9 per cent from the same period in 2011, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. Farm cash receipts, which include crop and livestock revenues plus program payments, increased in every province except Prince Edward Island […]

May. 22, 2012 at 6:35 pm CDT

Saskatoon’s PotashCorp plans to cut about 15 per cent of the workforce at its phosphate mine and fertilizer and feed supplement plant in North Carolina through "voluntary separations" and layoffs. "As a company, we never take these decisions lightly," Steve Beckel, general manager of the company’s plant at Aurora, about […]

May. 16, 2012 at 5:10 pm CDT

A United Nations expert sees Canada’s "export-led" agricultural and trade policies hampering the farming sector’s ability to move to "sustainable and decentralized" food systems. Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, wrapped up his official visit to Canada on Wednesday with a statement that credits […]

By Dave Bedard

May. 11, 2012 at 8:27 am CDT

Canada’s latest Census of Agriculture charts an evolution in Canadian farming that will surprise no one in the sector: fewer, larger farms operated largely by Boomers. The 2011 census, released Thursday, counts 205,730 census farms in Canada, down 10.3 per cent from the previous census in 2006, operated by 293,925 […]

Apr. 26, 2012 at 8:22 am CDT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s cost-trimming proposals now include plans to shut down lab work in St. John’s, combine some of its lab space in B.C., consolidate other offices and sell off three unused quarantine inspection stations on the Prairies. The federal agency on Wednesday announced plans to consolidate "a […]