Insights and Stories on Agriculture Minister

P.E.I. ag minister, ag critics re-elected

Apr. 4, 2023 at 6:17 pm CDT

Prince Edward Island’s incumbent agriculture minister and opposition agriculture critics prevailed in Monday night’s provincial election, in which incumbent premier Dennis King’s Tories were returned with a majority. Darlene Compton, King’s agriculture minister since last summer and his incumbent deputy premier, won re-election Monday for the Progressive Conservatives in her […]

AWC 2023: Federal ag minister inspired by farm women’s progress

Mar. 14, 2023 at 3:40 pm CDT

By Jessika Guse

Former Mission, B.C. mayor named province’s ag minister

Dec. 8, 2022 at 11:24 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Alberta reorganizes ag portfolio for returning minister

Oct. 21, 2022 at 9:51 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

B.C. ag minister, critic expected to win re-election

Oct. 25, 2020 at 8:27 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Alberta UCP’s trade critic named ag minister

Apr. 30, 2019 at 6:12 pm CDT

Alberta’s new premier has tapped a not-quite-rookie MLA with experience in farming, farm policy and U.S. politics as his new minister of agriculture and forestry. Jason Kenney, sworn in Tuesday as premier, named Devin Dreeshen, the MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake since last July, to handle the ag and forestry file. […]

By GFM Staff

Alberta ag minister Carlier downed in UCP win

Apr. 17, 2019 at 3:13 am CDT

Alberta’s incumbent agriculture minister was among the casualties as Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party defeated Rachel Notley’s New Democrats in Tuesday night’s provincial election. Oneil Carlier, the provincial NDP government’s minister of agriculture and forestry since May 2015 and deputy government house leader since February 2016, was unseated in his […]

By GFM Staff

Brazil ag minister eyes indigenous land for commercial farming

Jan. 18, 2019 at 7:47 pm CST

Brasilia | Reuters — Brazil should open indigenous land to commercial farming, Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias said on Friday, while also seeking to soften many of President Jair Bolsonaro’s controversial stances on native people and the environment. Farmers form a key base of support for right-wing firebrand Bolsonaro who […]

By Anthony Boadle Jake Spring

Saskatchewan ag minister to exit cabinet

Aug. 13, 2018 at 4:19 am CDT

Saskatchewan’s premier expects to name a new minister of agriculture within days, as the incumbent minister steps aside to focus on cancer treatments. Lyle Stewart announced Thursday he will remain as ag minister until Premier Scott Moe names a new minister, a decision to be announced sometime this week. “I […]

By GFM Staff

Sector growth to occupy Ontario ag minister in 2018

Dec. 29, 2017 at 5:32 pm CST

Ontario’s Liberals will have their agriculture standard-bearer back for the 2018 election. Jeff Leal, Ontario’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs, is staying in politics, running for his fifth term as a member of the provincial legislature in the Peterborough riding. Leal, who as a resident of Peterborough is […]

By John Greig

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