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Canada has signed on as a founding and funding member of a new worldwide research body devoted to cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in farming. The government announced the move Wednesday in Copenhagen, Denmark, where a number of federal and provincial officials are attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15), which ends Friday. Agriculture […] Read more

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Prices farmers received for their commodities fell 15.7 per cent in September 2009 from the same month a year earlier, as both the crops index and the livestock and animal products index declined, according to Statistics Canada. The prices producers received for crops in September were 17.2 per cent lower compared with September 2008, the […] Read more

Members of the National Farmers Union have voted to promote their vice-president to the ag organization’s top job. Terry Boehm, who farms at Allan, Sask., about 55 km southeast of Saskatoon, was elected to the president’s post at the NFU’s annual meeting last week in Ottawa. Boehm was challenged by Jean-Eudes Chiasson of Rogersville, N.B., […] Read more

Not all provinces or farmers saw or felt a benefit, but Canada’s realized net farm income rose for a second consecutive year in 2008, reaching $3.6 billion, according to Statistics Canada. Realized net income — the difference between a farmer’s cash receipts and operating expenses minus depreciation, plus income in kind — was $1.6 billion […] Read more

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Canada’s National Farmers Union plans to launch a new nationwide awareness campaign focused on the “rapid decline” in the number of farmers, particularly young and beginning farmers. The NFU plans to officially launch its Campaign for New Farmers on Saturday (Nov. 28), the last day of its annual convention in Ottawa. “This is an issue […] Read more

Canadian farmers’ cash receipts over the first nine months of 2009 have dropped 4.2 per cent from the year-earlier period to $32.8 billion, Statistics Canada reports. Farm cash receipts include gross crop and livestock revenues plus program payments. Market receipts from the sale of crops and livestock amounted to $30.3 billion between January and September, […] Read more

In their zeal to be environmentally sustainable, food production systems should concentrate less on their carbon footprint and more on production and distribution, says a new study. Improving the way food is grown, harvested, transported and consumed provides greater environmental benefits than simply counting food miles, according to the three-year global study published this week. […] Read more