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Realized net farm income in Canada amounted to $4.5 billion in 2010 — a 46.1 per cent increase from 2009, as a decline in operating costs outpaced a slight dip in receipts, according to Statistics Canada. The increase in 2010 followed a 16.6 per cent drop in 2009, the federal statistics agency said in a […] Read more

One of Quebec’s most storied farm publications is poised to join the house of Country Guide, Grainews and Canadian Cattlemen. Vancouver-based Glacier Media on Wednesday announced a deal to buy 15 trade publications from Rogers Publishing, including the monthly French-language farmers’ magazine Le Bulletin des agriculteurs. A company official confirmed Wednesday that Le Bulletin will […] Read more

Wednesday’s post-election shuffle of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet keeps Gerry Ritz in the agriculture minister’s chair and brings back one of the portfolio’s previous backup players to assist. Quebec MP Christian Paradis, who was minister of natural resources before the May 2 election, was shuffled Wednesday to become minister of industry as well as […] Read more

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s agriculture minister will be among the Conservative cabinet members returning to Ottawa in the wake of Monday’s election, and most but not all handlers of the ag portfolio will follow. Late Monday night, Elections Canada reported the federal Conservatives as elected or leading in 167 of 308 ridings, earning a much-coveted […] Read more