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Linda Jones of Melita, Man. is the winner of a $1,000 credit toward product from Alpine Plant Foods after filling out AGCanada.com’s online digital media survey. AgCanada.com has been very encouraged by farmers’ response to our family of websites for some of Canada’s best-known farm publications. Whether you’re following us through your Daily Email News […] Read more

The federal New Democrats will head into their first-ever round as official Opposition next month with their former deputy agriculture critic in the lead ag critic’s chair. Malcolm Allen, the MP for the Niagara-region riding of Welland since 2008, was named Thursday as the party’s agriculture critic, replacing Castlegar, B.C.-area MP Alex Atamanenko. Atamanenko, now […] Read more

Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled a record high of $12.1 billion during the first quarter of 2011, up 8.8 per cent from the year-earlier period, according to Statistics Canada. This follows a 7.5 per cent decline between the first quarters of 2009 and 2010, the federal statistics agency said in a report Wednesday. […] Read more

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