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Major ag trade shows join Glacier Media

Oct. 27, 2011 at 3:58 pm CDT

The owners of this website and its sister farm journals are branching out their ag information offerings from paper and cyberspace into the face-to-face world. Vancouver publishing firm Glacier Media announced Thursday it has bought Guelph-based Canada’s Outdoor Shows Ltd., operators of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show and Canada’s Outdoor Equine […]

Commodity groups hail results on market access

Oct. 26, 2011 at 5:38 am CDT

Supply management a sore spot for Canada/EU trade pact

Oct. 21, 2011 at 4:13 pm CDT

By David Ljunggren

Ontario names new agriculture minister

Oct. 20, 2011 at 3:22 pm CDT

Sobeys sets up separate command chain for IGA

Oct. 13, 2011 at 6:30 pm CDT

New Alta. premier names new Alta. ag minister

Oct. 12, 2011 at 4:51 pm CDT

Alberta’s newly minted premier has tapped a farmer and rookie MLA as her new minister of agriculture and rural development, in a shuffle that also includes several departmental mergers. Evan Berger, who was elected as the MLA for the southwestern riding of Livingstone-Macleod in 2008, comes to the ag portfolio […]

N.L. Tories win majority, lose ag minister

Oct. 12, 2011 at 4:12 am CDT

The minister in charge of Newfoundland and Labrador’s agrifoods agency has wound up unemployed in the governing Tories’ march to a third majority provincial government in a row. Shawn Skinner, the MHA for St. John’s Centre and the provincial minister of natural resources since December last year, lost his seat […]

Boston Pizza drafts smaller stores for smaller markets

Oct. 7, 2011 at 1:27 pm CDT

One of Canada’s biggest casual restaurant brands is warming up expansion plans for smaller cities and rural communities with the launch of a smaller-store prototype. Boston Pizza International’s new smaller-scale store design, at about 4,100 square feet, is expected to make it “more affordable than ever to own a Boston […]

Sask. general farm group’s president resigns

Oct. 7, 2011 at 7:35 am CDT

Farmer Greg Marshall has resigned from his post as president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS). In a letter this week to APAS board members and staff, Marshall cited health reasons for his decision, which follows what the organization called a “near-fatal” heart attack he suffered at his […]

Meanwhile in Rwanda: Our farmer gives birth to a baby boy

Oct. 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm CDT

One of the keys to achieving food security in Africa is ensuring its millions of smallholder farmers are able to produce enough food for their families plus a surplus to sell in local markets. To get a better idea of the challenge facing a typical African farm family, we’ve identified […]

By Jean Paul Ntezimana