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The Toronto Star and author Margaret Webb continue their sure-to-be-controversial series on agriculture in Canada with an article on small farms supplying local markets.  Webb says a group of young farmers near Montreal are pursuing their dream and building a new way of doing business for Canadian agriculture by working together through a worker-owned co-operative. […] Read more

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture says the federal and provincial governments may be set to make major changes to internal trade in agriculture products without consulting the industry first. “CFA and its membership across the country are very concerned with the initiative to renegotiate the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Agreement on Internal Trade including the revisions to the […] Read more

AGCanada.com, the national award-winning web portal for the Farm Business Communications stable of farm magazines, newspapers and websites, is now connected to social media services Facebook and Twitter. Facebook members are invited to visit our page and click on “Become a Fan” to get regular updates on: new editions of our print publications, including Country […] Read more

Prices Canadian farmers received for their commodities fell 12.2 per cent in July 2009 from the same month a year earlier, as Statistics Canada’s crops index and the livestock and animal products index both declined. The prices producers received for crops in July were 18.7 per cent lower compared with July 2008, the federal statistics […] Read more

Canada’s farmers and farm machinery makers are among the expected beneficiaries from the launch of talks toward a free trade agreement (FTA) with Ukraine. International Trade Minister Stockwell Day and Ukrainian Economics Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn announced the talks Tuesday, saying the two countries will meet in the coming months on “a range of trade and […] Read more

A slight drop in Canada’s consumer price index (CPI) between August 2008 and 2009 is due to a substantial drop in gasoline prices — and was offset mostly by rising food prices, according to Statistics Canada. The federal statistics agency on Thursday logged a drop of 0.8 per cent in consumer prices in the 12 […] Read more

The “Canada Brand” initiative to get a maple leaf brand on Canadian agri-foods worldwide is to be fueled by $32 million in federal support. The initiative is expected to fund market analysis, advertising campaigns and public opinion research for the promotion of “Canada’s safe, top-quality agriculture,” the government said in a release Thursday. “By more […] Read more

Winnipeg’s Farm Business Communications picked up 11 of 44 national awards for writing and photography Saturday at the Canadian Farm Writers Federation’s annual conference in Edmonton. Farm Business Communications, publishers of Country Guide, Grainews, Canadian Cattlemen, the Manitoba Co-operator, Alberta Farmer Express, Horses All and this website, earned the awards for work submitted to the […] Read more

Farmers able to check their mailboxes this week can expect to find their 2008 AgriInvest deposit notices, laying out how much farmers need to deposit in AgriInvest accounts to get matching government funds. The deposit notices provide producers with their matchable deposit amount and current account balance, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada said in a release […] Read more

A new five-year federal program will put up $50 million in loans for food processing companies to invest in new processes or technologies. The AgriProcessing Initiative (API), announced Friday, is meant to provide repayable contributions for the “purchasing and installing of equipment in Canadian facilities to enable the adoption of new manufacturing technologies and processes.” […] Read more