Insights and Stories on General

Aug. 10, 2009 at 9:52 am CDT

A British government report warns that the UK would be unable to feed itself, says a story on the website of the newspaper the Times of London. The report says the UK only produces enough food to meet 75 per cent of domestic needs and suggests the food system is […]

Aug. 7, 2009 at 2:17 pm CDT

A study on the benefits of pulses for controlling glycemic levels in people with and without diabetes has been selected as editor’s choice for a European journal on diabetes.The study conducted by Dr. Cyril Kendall from the University of Toronto is in the August issue of Diabetologia, which features a […]

Aug. 7, 2009 at 12:09 pm CDT

Gill Shaw has been re-appointed to another three years as chair of the board of directors for the Farm Credit Corporation, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced Friday.   “Mr. Shaw has been doing an excellent job as Chair of FCC’s Board of Directors since 2006, and I am pleased he […]

Aug. 7, 2009 at 9:48 am CDT

A new suite of national agricultural programs is now available to the agriculture sector in the Northwest Territories.  Federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz and Robert McLeod, minister of industry, tourism and investment, announced the details of new NWT agricultural programs under the Growing Forward framework today.  This announcement follows the […]

Aug. 6, 2009 at 10:55 am CDT

A perennial complaint from the farm community has always been that urbanites think their food comes from a grocery store – but what would happen if a city didn’t have a single major grocery store? In Detroit, the decaying buckle on the U.S. midwest’s Rust Belt, citizens are struggling with […]