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Talk to family, friends about farming

By Shannon VanRaes, GFM Network News December 20, 2017

This holiday season Melodie Chan wants producers to avoid what she calls the “spiral of silence,” which can happen around the dinner table, over beers or even in the gentle lull between turkey and pie if farmers don’t speak up when they hear misinformation about agriculture. “What are we afraid of?” asked Chan, speaking at […] Read more

Harvesting of soybean field with combine

Columns

Seeding ideas about the rural/urban divide

A farmers musings on the growing lack of communication between city-dwellers and farmers

By Toban Dyck June 13, 2017

I got some grease on me the other day. Heck. It looked as if I had bathed in the stuff. And, you know what? It felt great. I even got a few scrapes. The kind of scrapes you only notice later, after the work, when you’re sitting down with a good book or while watching […] Read more

Consumers are just figuring out what food fraud is to them, Sylvain Charlebois says. (John Greig photo)

General

Greig: Food fraud a challenge to whole food supply chain

By GFM Network News May 9, 2017

Farmers are used to the conversation about how to manage trust with consumers. Food companies are learning it too, and finding food fraud to be a significant concern. Food fraud “comes back to trust,” according to Renata McGuire of NSF Consulting and Technical Services. “Do I trust this brand?” McGuire, along with Sylvain Charlebois, dean […] Read more

Crops, Grapes, Reuters

China seen set to become world’s second-biggest wine market

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 29, 2017

Paris | Reuters — China is set to overtake Britain and France to become the world’s second-largest wine consumer by value behind the U.S. by 2020 as consumers turn to more middle-range wines, the International Wine and Spirit Research (IWSR) organization said Thursday. In a study for wine fair Vinexpo it forecast Chinese wine consumption […] Read more

Columns

Concern about public concerns

Farmers don't generally trust urban views. This won't help us move forward

By Toban Dyck January 24, 2017

Recently I was elected president of the Stanley Agricultural Society. The nomination shocked me. The election results also shocked me. It was my first time being the subject of a vote. I sat there, looking around at Society members cast their ballots. My leg was jumping. My heart was pounding. I was sweating. I already […] Read more

Columns

Reporter’s Notebook: Communications confusion

People with different backgrounds, knowledge and attitudes see the world differently

By Lisa Guenther December 20, 2016

A couple of years ago I took a few days to work on some fiction at Spring Valley Guest Ranch, a bed and breakfast a short ways from Ravenscrag, Saskatchewan. The B&B, run by Jim Saville, sits in a valley. It’s quite idyllic, as long as you like the Prairies (which I do). Jim even […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

The Markets: Good thing consumers are eating

High beef and pork production continues to weigh on the market

By Jerry Klassen September 29, 2016

Fed and feeder cattle prices continued to trend lower in August and early September as the market absorbs the year-over-year increase in beef production. Alberta packers were buying fed cattle in the range of $133 to $136 in late summer; values we haven’t seen since January of 2014. Feedlot margins continue to erode and the […] Read more

It is hard to determine if there is a good or bad guy in this whole story. The end of the ketchup wars will come down to the taste test.

Columns, Hart Attacks

Ketchup is not just a condiment

Lee Hart’s saucy commentary on Canada’s recent ketchup brand wars

By Lee Hart April 21, 2016

I do want to tell you about the immeasurable grief and misery our tiny band of adventurers endured last month in setting up the upper camp before our final assault on Everest, but to more important things first — what are your thoughts on the recent ketchup war in Canada? Are you in the French’s or […] Read more

Crops

Farmers weigh in on “consumer demand”

Consumers need to be educated, but also willing to pay

By Lee Hart February 10, 2016

Responding to “consumer demands” isn’t necessarily about making some wholesale changes in farm operating practices, say Prairie farmers contacted for the February Farmer Panel. Those often heard claims that “the consumer is demanding…” everything from healthier, safer food, to reduced environmental footprint, to improved livestock and production practices need to be heard, say panel members. But sometimes […] Read more

I think what the consumer wants, and perhaps mostly demands, is a good-quality product, safe and healthy, hopefully tasty, and available at the lowest price possible.

Columns, Hart Attacks

What’s with “consumer demand?”

Both retailers and farm groups are using farm practices as a marketing pitch

By Lee Hart February 1, 2016

I have to admit I am more than a little sceptical of the term “consumer demand.” If I believed every TV commercial, news report, magazine article and corporate pitch talking about consumer demand I doubt I’d be able to leave the house without running into an angry mob rallied in front of some office or […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

Tag Archives consumers

Talk to family, friends about farming

Seeding ideas about the rural/urban divide

Greig: Food fraud a challenge to whole food supply chain

China seen set to become world’s second-biggest wine market

Concern about public concerns

Reporter’s Notebook: Communications confusion

The Markets: Good thing consumers are eating

Farmers weigh in on “consumer demand”

What’s with “consumer demand?”

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