Insights and Stories on General

NEW SERIES: Following a farm family in sub-Saharan Africa

Apr. 29, 2011 at 4:16 pm CDT

One of the keys to achieving food security in Africa is ensuring that 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 […]

Supply-managed sectors, CWB rip WTO report

Apr. 26, 2011 at 11:50 am CDT

Commodities crunch worsens for consumers, companies

Apr. 26, 2011 at 10:33 am CDT

By brad-dorfman

Farm private investment seen doubling in two years

Apr. 26, 2011 at 4:29 am CDT

By Naveen Thukral

The rise of iFarmer

Apr. 20, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

By Gord Gilmour

Cattle, crops at risk from N.D. floods, snow

Apr. 19, 2011 at 11:15 pm CDT

Snowstorms on top of flooding in North Dakota have not yet resulted in many cattle deaths as feared, but lingering cold, wet weather threatens the state’s herd, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said Tuesday. Spring temperatures are well below normal in North Dakota, a key U.S. grower of spring […]

By Rod Nickel

Don’t drive across flooding roads

Apr. 19, 2011 at 5:42 am CDT

The only sure way for drivers not to drown when crossing flooded rural roads is not to cross them, says Gordon Giesbrecht, associate dean at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation. Even if a road isn’t washed out — something drivers can’t see — it takes just […]

By Allan Dawson

WTO talks now at “grave risk” of failure: Lamy

Apr. 18, 2011 at 5:34 pm CDT

Nearly a decade worth of work to reach a world trade deal is on the verge of “failure,” World Trade Organization director General Pascal Lamy said Saturday in a plea for countries to rise above their own narrow interests for the good of the global economy. “The WTO system is […]

By doug-palmer

CN adds more containers for grocery goods

Apr. 11, 2011 at 6:19 pm CDT

Aiming to boost its share of Canada’s domestic grocery and consumer goods shipping business, Canadian National Railway (CN) has bought over 1,000 new containers to cater to that market segment. About 80 per cent of the new containers are heated to carry “temperature-sensitive” goods year-round, while the remainder are standard […]

Parties support ag sector, differ on details

Apr. 11, 2011 at 4:42 pm CDT

The agriculture policies of all five major Canadian political parties were put front and centre in a debate hosted by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in Ottawa on Monday. All of the parties were in agreement that agriculture was important to the country, but there was some disagreement on just […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin