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Humanitarian aid provided by Palestinian Arabs is distributed at northwestern Syria’s Deir Ballut and Muhammadiyah camps near the Turkish border on Feb. 13, 2022. (Photo: Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Reuters)
Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Earthquake to have little effect on pulse markets

Such disasters don't often blow back on agrifood commodity costs

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MarketsFarm — The earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday last week, taking the lives of more than 40,000 people, may not have a major effect on pulse markets, according to one analyst. Jon Driedger from Leftfield Commodity Research in Winnipeg said that while natural disasters like an earthquake can take on […] Read more
Mixed greens are gaining popularity in both menus and markets.
Farm Life

Tips on growing leafy greens indoors

First We Eat: Get a head start on salad days of summer

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To most of us, salad is the ultimate summer fare. We wait all year for freshly harvested salad greens, making do through fall, winter and early spring with the robust and sturdy greens of those seasons, but summer means salad. We love the tenderness, the crunch, the colours and the very idea of lettuce. It […] Read more
Delicious fresh apples picked in late September 2022 from the same Kerr apple-crab tree that has produced a bountiful crop annually for more than 30 years. If trees could talk, what memories and stories they could tell.

Farm Life

My amazing Kerr apple-crab tree

Singing Gardener: Plus a useful breathing technique to help you sleep

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If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then it sounds reasonable that two apples a day are even better. Yes — apples are on the agenda of words today and I’ll tell you about my amazing Kerr apple-crab tree. While I was a youth at home, it was common for friends or neighbours […] Read more
NDP ag critic Alistair MacGregor speaks Feb. 3, 2023 in the House of Commons. (Alistair MacGregor video screengrab via Facebook)
General, Markets

Federal NDP ag critic to handle food inflation file

Mini-shuffle follows new critic portfolio

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Canada’s federal New Democrats have appointed their critic for agriculture and agri-food to a new point position on a major issue for the fourth-ranked opposition party. After the House of Commons resumed sitting last Monday (Jan. 30), NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday named Alistair MacGregor, MP for the Vancouver Island riding of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford, to […] Read more
File photo of a provincial border marker in Lloydminster. (Michele Gervais/iStock/Getty Images)
General

Borderline city hosts interprovincial food trade pilot

Trade barrier on pause for two years for food businesses serving Lloydminster

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The idea of loosening interprovincial trade in certain foods made by provincially-inspected processors will get a major test in one of Canada’s very few province-crossing municipalities. The Saskatchewan, Alberta and federal governments on Jan. 19 announced the start of a two-year pilot project within the limits of Lloydminster, a city of over 31,000 people straddling […] Read more
Swiss-French author Sylvie Bigar writes about her obsession with the south of France and cassoulet in Cassoulet Confessions.
Farm Life

Vive la Cassoulet

First We Eat: Many different ways to serve this classic French bean dish

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I just read Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family, and the Stew That Saved My Soul by Sylvie Bigar. Bigar, a Swiss-French writer, is obsessed with the south of France and cassoulet, the classic southern French bean dish. Her Jewish Ashkenazi family (diaspora Jews who settled in the Alsace region of France, and before that, Poland) […] Read more
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Columns

Who makes the big bucks in the agri-food sector?

From an investment standpoint, choose carefully

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After studying the ag supply sectors in my last article, I wanted to take the project a step further to examine companies between the farm gate and the consumer. Like with ag suppliers, my findings are somewhat surprising. I looked at four sectors: grain handling and primary processing, railroads, food manufacturers and food retail, with […] Read more
File photo of a combine at work during a harvest in Germany. (Abadonian/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters, Weather

Germany considering withdrawal from crop-based biofuels by 2030

Lawmakers seek to boost biofuel made from wastes

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Hamburg | Reuters — Germany’s government is considering proposals to phase out the use of biofuels produced from food or animal feed crops by 2030, the German biofuels industry association (VDB) said on Tuesday, adding the measure could increase carbon emissions. German environment minister Steffi Lemke said Jan. 17 she will soon send proposals to […] Read more
Duck breast roulade from Steve Squier, chef at Picaro in Saskatoon.
Farm Life

Food influencers

First We Eat: How to translate culinary art into home cooking

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In a pivotal moment of the 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada, the protagonist Andrea, a fashion novice played by Anne Hathaway, snickers as she watches her icy boss Miranda, played by the iconic Meryl Streep, make decisions for a fashion shoot. Miranda, reputedly modeled on the equally iconic Anna Wintour, head of Vogue magazine, […] Read more
The Cook the Books competition featured one crepinette-like dish where flank steak was stuffed with mushrooms and chives, rolled up into a tube, seared, roasted, carved and served up sushi-style.
Farm Life

Up to the challenge

First We Eat: Canadian culinary students inspire at Cooks the Books competition

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When I arrived in Toronto in early November, I left winter behind. The skies were blue, the temperature a humid 23 C, about 40 degrees warmer than at home. My sister struck up the grill and I spatchcocked a chicken, rubbing it with garlic, fresh-cut thyme, spices and black olive paste. An hour later, we […] Read more

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