Insights and Stories on General

Feb. 28, 2012 at 3:46 pm CST

Processor and producer groups are hailing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s launch of a "statement of rights and service" and guides to inspection as a way to better understand their own roles in the process. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Monday said the move is meant to "strengthen communication and […]

Feb. 26, 2012 at 12:01 am CST

It’s often said farmers speak their own language, but schoolkids in nine provinces might soon understand it a little better thanks to Canadian Agricultural Literacy Week. Hundreds of farmers will be going back to school Feb. 26 to March 3 to talk to children and read from selected books telling […]

By Lorraine Stevenson

Feb. 13, 2012 at 4:59 pm CST

U.S. President Barack Obama proposed slashing subsidies to the booming agriculture sector by US$32 billion over the next decade, just as Congress begins the lengthy process of overhauling the expiring U.S. farm law. For the third year running, Obama proposed sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in his […]

Feb. 11, 2012 at 6:20 am CST

Canadian consumers get to mark "Food Freedom Day" on the same day in 2012 as in the previous three years, having earned enough on average to pay the total bill for groceries for the year. The occasion, which in Canada commemorates what Canadian ad agency AdFarm dubbed "one of the […]

Feb. 8, 2012 at 3:58 pm CST

Canada’s latest trade mission to China has yielded plans for a major increase in Canadian canola meal purchases — and fulfillment of a pledge for restored market access for beef tallow. In a release Tuesday from China, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced that Tongwei Co., a feed manufacturer in […]