Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’

U.S. Department of Agriculture considers sugar bailout

A sweet deal could be sour for manufacturers and consumers

by Nick Taylor-Vaisey - Thursday, March 21, 2013
Governments must address antibiotic use in farming: Ontario Medical Association

TORONTO – The Ontario Medical Association wants the federal and provincial governments to crack…

by The Canadian Press - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
A founder of the anti-GM food movement on how he got it wrong

Mark Lynas in conversation with Charlie Gillis

by Charlie Gillis - Monday, March 18, 2013
The potash hangover

Oversupply and falling prices are hurting the once-promising industry

by Ryan Mallough - Monday, January 14, 2013
Military drones put to good use

Keeping track of cattle and, perhaps one day, delivering the mail are emerging applications for UAVs

by Emily Senger - Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Prairie farmers ask for government help getting hay to Ontario and Quebec

WHITEHORSE – A move is afoot to get hay from the Prairies to drought-stricken…

by The Canadian Press - Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Goodbye to all that

The Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly ends today. The Prime Minister is in Kindersley to…

by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, August 1, 2012
North America’s corn belt is baking, and everyone is about to feel the burn

The worst draught in a quarter-century is threatening the global food supply

by Charlie Gillis - Monday, July 23, 2012
Martha Hall Findlay Maverick Watch

Perhaps on the eve of another leadership run, former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay…

by Aaron Wherry - Thursday, June 21, 2012
No, the Wheat Board’s not in the Constitution

Because it’s a little difficult to find on the Web, I’ve uploaded a PDF…

by Colby Cosh - Saturday, February 25, 2012
Day one at the AAAS conference in Vancouver

New research emerges about Stonehenge’s auditory magic and how to grow food in the desert

by Kate Lunau - Friday, February 17, 2012
Milk management fee

Barrie McKenna explores the government’s attempt to support both the free market (when it…

by Aaron Wherry - Monday, October 24, 2011
The Canadian Wheat Board and everything after

The five-part act to reform the Canadian Wheat Board, as tabled today, is here….

by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, October 18, 2011
We reject your democracy and substitute our own

A majority of voters in a plebiscite have voted to maintain the Canadian Wheat…

by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Pitchmen with pitchforks

Fast food restaurants are getting the farmers that grow their food to sell it too

by Jessica Allen - Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The Russians are coming

Field studies are under way to see if a foreign weed—a dandelion—could become a source of rubber and cash

by Cynthia Reynolds - Thursday, August 11, 2011
Is organic food from China safe?

While organic agriculture is big in China, concerns about food safety and quality are starting to arise

by Sarah Elton - Friday, June 17, 2011
Sowing seeds from the sky

Manitoba canola farmers are using helicopters to plant their rain-soaked fields

by Alex Ballingall - Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Where have Georgia's immigrant workers gone?

Echoing Arizona, Georgia passed a tough immigrant law. Now it finds itself desperately short of farmhands.

by Stephanie Findlay - Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Mugabe's new tenant farmers

White farmers are renting land

by Julia Belluz - Thursday, December 23, 2010