The Canadian Cattle Association has a new president and several new directors on its board for 2025-26. The national cattle producer organization held its annual general meeting in Ottawa last week. Tyler Fulton, who represents Manitoba Beef Producers at the national level, moved from vice-president into the president position. Fulton operates a 600 cow-calf pair… Read More
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Saskatchewan’s provincial agriculture minister is criticizing his federal counterpart’s announcement of changes to the AgriStability business risk management program on the eve of the federal election campaign. Daryl Harrison tells RealAgriculture the federal government made the announcement “despite knowing they cannot unilaterally implement these changes, and that no changes can be made until after the… Read More
With the Canadian Grocery Sector Code of Conduct complete, attention now turns to the implementation and education around what the code will and won’t provide for industry players. The code was finalized last year and will come into force in June 2025. That means there needs to be a body that overseas the code and… Read More
The Manitoba government is welcoming and on board with changes to the AgriStability program announced by the new federal agriculture minister on the eve of the federal election campaign. On Saturday, Kody Blois announced an increase to the AgriStability compensation rate from 80 to 90 per cent, as well as a doubling of the payment… Read More
“It’s literally costing me money now to seed canola… $200,000 that…[we] lost off of our canola, just like that, just due to the tariffs.” This is the message that Christi Friesen of Rebellion Farms based out of Brownvale, Alta., wanted to get across to Premiere Danielle Smith in a recent post on X (see below)…. Read More
Canada’s federal agriculture and public safety ministers say they have directed agencies under their oversight to work on cracking down on the longstanding issue of fraudulent chicken meat imports into Canada. “The issue of spent fowl misrepresentation is one that demands decisive action. This is fraud and it undermines consumers, our farmers, distorts our markets,… Read More
Join CAPI and RealAgriculture for an insightful webinar on the current state of tariffs, their impact on Canadian agri-food and proactive policy solutions to safeguard the industry’s future. When: March 27, 2025 at 11 am EDT via Zoom Recent tariff pressures have once again highlighted vulnerabilities in Canada’s agri-food sector, from an over-reliance on the US… Read More
Cereals Canada has published a new series of sustainability reports for the Canadian cereals value chain. The reports cover Canadian non-durum wheat, durum wheat, barley, and oats. Six environmental indicators were used as markers of sustainability in the reports — carbon footprint, soil organic carbon, fertilizer use, irrigation, pesticide use, and soil erosion. These same… Read More
The Alberta government has proposed updates to the current Agricultural Operations Practices Act through Bill 44. If implemented, the government says that it would reduce waste and allow farmers to supplement current fertilizer programs with organic materials. While biodigesters already operate within the province, the current regulations lack clarity on the management of organic material,… Read More
After winning a new mandate to protect the Ontario economy against the ravages of Trump tariffs, Premier Doug Ford has unveiled the team that will join him around the Cabinet table. After less than a year at the helm of the province’s agriculture ministry, MPP for Elgin-Middlesex-London, Rob Flack leaves agriculture to take over the… Read More