Insights and Stories on General

Farmland values keep rising: FCC

Oct. 28, 2008 at 3:55 pm CDT

Values of Canadian farmland on average kept rising in the first half of 2008, with a percentage increase of 5.8 per cent over the second half of 2007, Farm Credit Canada said in its latest Farmland Values report. Based on its list of 245 benchmark properties across the country, the […]

Expect changes to organic standard: OMAFRA

Oct. 15, 2008 at 1:14 pm CDT

Ag incumbents in, farm leaders out

Oct. 15, 2008 at 1:53 am CDT

Farm Business Communications earns 11 at CFWF

Oct. 7, 2008 at 12:02 am CDT

By FBC staff

Canada’s farms still largely Tory blue: poll

Oct. 1, 2008 at 2:52 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Bloc eyes income stability in ag platform

Oct. 1, 2008 at 12:42 am CDT

Tax breaks, boosts to ag income stabilization and, as expected, a defense of supply management are among the planks in the Bloc Quebecois’ agricultural platform for the Oct. 14 federal election. Joined by six other Bloc candidates, party leader Gilles Duceppe and the BQ caucus’ ag critic, Andre Bellavance, outlined […]

By FBC staff

NDP goes green in ag platform

Sep. 29, 2008 at 10:43 pm CDT

Funding for organic farming, “green” farming, farmer co-ops and farm safety nets are on Jack Layton’s to-fund list in the New Democratic Party’s new agriculture platform. NDP leader Layton released the party’s full platform Sunday in Toronto, with just over two weeks before a federal election. Among other points, the […]

By FBC staff

Credit crunch not yet hitting Canadian ag

Sep. 29, 2008 at 5:50 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Western Canadian farmers looking to buy some new land, improve their equipment or simply make ends meet until the next year’s harvest don’t yet appear to have run into problems securing credit. However, an executive with federal ag lender Farm Credit Canada said Monday, if the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Conservatives pledge “AgriFlex”-style program

Sep. 26, 2008 at 4:54 pm CDT

A re-elected Conservative federal government will put up $500 million over four years to work with Canada’s provinces on an “agricultural flexibility” program, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Thursday. A federal/provincial flexibility program will deliver “region-specific programs that help farm families cope with the costs of production pressures, promote innovation, […]

By FBC staff

July livestock prices up, crops down: StatsCan

Sep. 24, 2008 at 3:17 pm CDT

Prices farmers received for their commodities were virtually unchanged, up 0.1 per cent in July from June 2008, as a slight increase in the livestock and animal products index offset a 2.6 per cent dip in the crops index, according to Statistics Canada Wednesday. This was just the second monthly […]

By Statistics Canada