Insights and Stories on General

Jun. 1, 2011 at 5:04 pm CDT

Its ranks thinned drastically in last month’s election, the federal Liberal Party has gone to the ag-centred city of Guelph for its new agriculture critic. Frank Valeriote, the MP for Guelph since October 2008, was named Wednesday by interim party leader Bob Rae as the Liberals’ new critic for agriculture […]

May. 31, 2011 at 1:23 pm CDT

Linda Jones of Melita, Man. is the winner of a $1,000 credit toward product from Alpine Plant Foods after filling out AGCanada.com’s online digital media survey. AgCanada.com has been very encouraged by farmers’ response to our family of websites for some of Canada’s best-known farm publications. Whether you’re following us […]

May. 27, 2011 at 1:01 am CDT

The federal New Democrats will head into their first-ever round as official Opposition next month with their former deputy agriculture critic in the lead ag critic’s chair. Malcolm Allen, the MP for the Niagara-region riding of Welland since 2008, was named Thursday as the party’s agriculture critic, replacing Castlegar, B.C.-area […]

May. 25, 2011 at 8:59 pm CDT

Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled a record high of $12.1 billion during the first quarter of 2011, up 8.8 per cent from the year-earlier period, according to Statistics Canada. This follows a 7.5 per cent decline between the first quarters of 2009 and 2010, the federal statistics agency […]

May. 25, 2011 at 6:40 pm CDT

Realized net farm income in Canada amounted to $4.5 billion in 2010 — a 46.1 per cent increase from 2009, as a decline in operating costs outpaced a slight dip in receipts, according to Statistics Canada. The increase in 2010 followed a 16.6 per cent drop in 2009, the federal […]