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Food makers’ margins rise, retailers’ fall: review

Dec. 19, 2007 at 4:00 pm CST

The Wal-Mart effect has hit Canada’s grocery store industry, pressuring prices in supermarkets even as Canadian food manufacturers’ margins show steady improvement, according to a year-end review by the George Morris Centre. The agricultural industry think-tank, based in Guelph, Ont., on Tuesday posted its year-end review of Canada’s food industry, […]

WTO panel investigating U.S. subsidies

Dec. 18, 2007 at 2:12 pm CST

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Feds to toughen food safety penalties

Dec. 17, 2007 at 7:08 pm CST

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B.C. taxman to review “farm” status

Dec. 17, 2007 at 6:26 pm CST

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Aid package set for Ont. livestock, horticulture sectors

Dec. 14, 2007 at 5:09 pm CST

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Farmers await Liberal ag task force’s ideas: CFA

Dec. 11, 2007 at 11:28 pm CST

A new task force on agriculture launched last week by the federal Liberal party is expected to come up with good ideas for the sector, but those ideas will need to be useful in the drafting of a new Canadian ag policy framework, according to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. […]

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Nominations open for Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame

Dec. 7, 2007 at 12:29 pm CST

The Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame is now accepting nominations to honour individuals who have made significant contributions to Alberta’s agriculture and agri-food industry. “Alberta’s agriculture industry is a vital part of our provincial economy, and at the heart of our rural communities,” said Premier Ed Stelmach. “Agriculture helped to […]

Organic umbrella group funded

Dec. 3, 2007 at 5:12 pm CST

The federal government will put $565,900 toward development of a national sector organization, the Organic Federation of Canada, to bring together all players in Canada’s organic industry, raise awareness of the sector and help with regulatory development. OFC president Stephanie Wells said in a government release that the funding, announced […]

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Ag trends point to “new era” of opportunity: TD

Nov. 28, 2007 at 4:14 pm CST

Canada’s farmers are “well-positioned” to take advantage of emerging tastes and trends in the global market, though success will depend at least partly on effective public policy, according to a report Wednesday by the economics wing of TD Bank Financial Group. The report by Derek Burleton of TD Economics admits […]

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Koch named Sask. deputy ag minister

Nov. 27, 2007 at 2:01 pm CST

Alanna Koch, head of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, is Saskatchewan’s new top agriculture bureaucrat. The province’s new Saskatchewan Party government, which ousted the New Democrats in the Nov. 7 election, announced Koch’s appointment as deputy minister of agriculture on Tuesday as part of a list of orders-in-council naming new […]

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