Insights and Stories on Agriculture

B.C. to back Indigenous food system projects

Sep. 26, 2022 at 3:22 am CDT

A new British Columbia program will provide up to $80,000 each for projects in agriculture, food processing or other sectors to improve food security in that province’s Indigenous communities. The province on Wednesday rolled out a new Indigenous Food Systems and Agriculture Partnership Program, which is set up to take […]

Swiss reject initiative to ban factory farming

Sep. 26, 2022 at 2:28 am CDT

By Cecile Mantovani

Quebec’s UPA hit by ransomware attack

Aug. 17, 2022 at 9:20 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Farmers, exhibitors hail Ag in Motion’s in-person return

Jul. 21, 2022 at 12:57 pm CDT

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

P.E.I. finance minister moves to ag file

Jul. 19, 2022 at 3:36 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Partnership gives Prairie ag students new 800-acre opportunity

Jun. 6, 2022 at 3:24 pm CDT

Students from Saskatchewan Polytechnic and Olds College will be getting more opportunities to collaborate with each other on a large scale. The two institutions have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which entails both schools working together for five years on various programs, notably Olds College’s Smart Farm operation. The […]

By Liam O’Connor

Ontario ag minister returns in another Tory majority

Jun. 3, 2022 at 3:03 am CDT

Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservatives will head back to the legislature with their incumbent agriculture minister at the caucus table. Lisa Thompson, Premier Doug Ford’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs since June last year, easily held her southwestern riding of Huron-Bruce in Thursday’s provincial election by a spread of […]

By Dave Bedard

Drought gone in Manitoba but worsening in Alberta, AAFC reports

May. 9, 2022 at 5:26 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Record-breaking precipitation in southern Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan helped improve moisture conditions in the region in April, taking much of the area out of the drought classification, according to the latest Drought Monitor report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) for the period ended April 30. Two separate […]

By MarketsFarm

Changes to TFW program to expand worker availability

Apr. 10, 2022 at 5:17 am CDT

The federal government is boosting the availability of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to ag and other understaffed sectors under a list of policy changes announced Monday. Employment and Workforce Development Minister Carla Qualtrough announced what’s called the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program Workforce Solutions Road Map, which the government said […]

By Dave Bedard

Food, farming, forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, UN says

Apr. 6, 2022 at 1:53 am CDT

Reuters — Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations’ climate panel. But the changes are unlikely to happen unless governments act to spur them along, […]

By Leah Douglas

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