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A new five-year, $163 million Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP) has been launched in place of the expiring Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) plan. As was the case with ACAAF, projects funded under CAAP will be proposal-based and originate from industry, the federal government said Thursday in announcing the program. CAAP, the government said, […] Read more

The heads of international trade for Canada and the European Union have held their first meeting toward the free trade agreement (FTA) they first proposed last month. “This first meeting represents a solid step toward a historic economic agreement with the world’s largest market,” International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said in a release Wednesday after […] Read more

Spending on food and non-alcoholic beverages in 2003 resulted in almost 46,000 kilotonnes of greenhouse gases, according to the first comprehensive national estimate of food-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada. This was equivalent to 6.4 per cent of total national GHG emissions that year, Statistics Canada said in a release Tuesday. This national estimate […] Read more

Canada and fellow Cairns Group countries have inked a joint statement urging pledges of substantially reduced domestic supports, improved market access and an end to export subsidies as a way to jolt the Doha round of world ag trade talks back to life. “We welcome the recent calls for re-engagement on the negotiations and the […] Read more

If you were one of the first 95 people to respond to our item last week on the Western Canada Farm Progress Show, your pair of free single-day show passes is in the mail. Farm Business Communications, Canada’s largest publisher of newspapers and magazines for farmers, and operator of this website, thanks everyone who dropped […] Read more

Prices farmers received for their commodities fell 0.9 per cent in March from the same month a year earlier, as the crops index fell, more than offsetting the growth in the total livestock and animal products index, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. The total crops index had a 12-month decrease of 18.3 per cent, as prices […] Read more

If you’ve not got your tickets yet for the Western Canada Farm Progress Show, they may be just a few clicks away. Farm Business Communications, Canada’s largest publisher of newspapers and magazines for farmers, and operators of this website, has a pair of free single-day show passes for you if you’re one of the first […] Read more

A campaign to maintain the Correctional Service of Canada’s six prison farms will make its play for national attention this week, according to participating farm groups. The National Farmers Union and other groups plan a press conference Wednesday (June 3) outside the fence at the Frontenac Institution at Kingston, Ont., home to one of the […] Read more

Ideas for new products or production methods from Canadian farmers, processors and researchers may be eligible for a share of $158 million in federal funds to get them market-ready. Ottawa is “helping farmers put more black ink on the bottom line by bringing new products to new markets,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said in a […] Read more

The federal government has pledged $45.6 million over four years to extend Canada’s Rural Partnership (CRP), which will flow support for rural community development through the ag department’s Rural Secretariat. The support comes in the form of a new CRP funding initiative, titled the “Community Development Program, Building Rural and Northern Partnerships,” and is intended […] Read more