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Farm cash receipts up in 2020

Mar. 2, 2021 at 7:43 pm CST

MarketsFarm — New data from Statistics Canada on Tuesday showed Canadian farm cash receipts went up in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, on the strength of rising crop prices and exports. The total value of farm cash receipts in the country totalled $71.7 billion in 2020, an 8.1 per cent […]

Wet or dry spring ahead? Depends on where in Canada

Feb. 26, 2021 at 6:56 pm CST

By MarketsFarm Team

Farmers’ net cash income improves as crop prices soar

Feb. 25, 2021 at 7:41 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. Senate confirms Vilsack as Biden’s ag secretary

Feb. 23, 2021 at 7:52 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Canada hails new WTO chief

Feb. 22, 2021 at 8:07 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Budget could include new BRM program, ag labour plan

Feb. 19, 2021 at 9:33 pm CST

A new pre-budget report from the House of Commons’ finance committee is recommending several measures directly related to agriculture — including sought-after tweaks to AgriStability and creation of an entirely new business risk management program. The multipartisan committee heard testimony and received submissions from more than 800 groups and individuals. […]

By D.C. Fraser

Advisory council named to steer national Food Policy

Feb. 19, 2021 at 8:24 pm CST

Development of Canada’s Food Policy is taking a major step forward with the naming Friday of a new advisory council featuring industry, academic and government members tasked with guiding the policy. Public consultations on a “Food Policy for Canada” started in 2017, leading to the release of a 2018 report […]

By D.C. Fraser

Farmland rentals in Western Canada increasing

Feb. 19, 2021 at 9:44 am CST

The number of acres of rented and leased farmland in Canada is going nowhere but up, and will keep being led by Western Canada, especially Saskatchewan and Alberta. “I would expect that we’ll continue to see more people renting land for a number of reasons,” says Farm Credit Canada’s principal […]

By Richard Kamchen

Ford recalling older-model Rangers over airbag inflators

Feb. 18, 2021 at 8:20 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. is recalling 153,000 older trucks that may have had obsolete Takata air bag modules installed in collision and theft repairs after the Takata recall was completed, the automaker said on Thursday. The second-largest U.S. automaker identified about 8,800 Ford Ranger 2004-06 trucks in […]

By David Shepardson

Diesel prices, carbon tax cause headaches for farmers

Feb. 16, 2021 at 8:23 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Crude oil prices have been steadily on the rise since last November as oil-producing nations implement production cuts and Canadian farmers already affected by climbing diesel prices will have to dig deeper into their wallets this April. On April 1, the federal government’s carbon levy on diesel will […]

By Adam Peleshaty