For many students across Canada, a farm is something they’ve only read about—but a long-running virtual tour aims to change that. Ag in the Classroom Canada (AITC-C) has launched season five of The Great Canadian Farm Tour, a bilingual, online program that gives kindergarten to Grade 6 students live access to farms from coast to... Read More
Category: Food Processing
By Ted Bilyea Ongoing trade conflicts affecting Canada have prompted much reflection in recent months on how we could have prevented the situation we are currently in and what we can do now to manage risks going forward. Many have suggested we need to diversify trade partnerships, enhance domestic trade, and be more proactive with... Read More
Hilton Foods Canada is set to build a $192 million food processing and distribution facility at Brantford, creating 150 new jobs. This will be the first North American facility for the company. The Government of Ontario is supporting Hilton Foods’ expansion with $1.5 million grant from the Southwestern Ontario Development Fund. The company will build... Read More
Move over, Greenbelt, the Foodbelt has entered the chat. Ontario is losing farmland at an alarming rate of about 319 acres a day, according to provincial data. That’s equivalent to losing an area the size of Kingston every year, says Mike Schreiner, leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph. Losing farmland risks... Read More
The Canadian Centre for Food Integrity (CCFI) has launched a new initiative aimed at enhancing public trust and awareness of the Canadian food system. CCFI executive director Lisa Bishop-Spencer says the program will help reverse a seven-point drop in public confidence over the last year in Canada's food system by increasing public trust and understanding... Read More
Drake Meats has announced plans to build a 53,000 square foot state-of-the-art meat processing facility in Saskatoon, Sask., capable of producing more than eight million kilograms of pork and beef products annually. The family-owned consumer-packaged meat company, founded in 1949 as a co-operative meat locker in Drake, Saskatchewan, produces a vast line of products including... Read More
By Kevin Howe, a fifth-generation fruit and vegetable farmer in Elgin County, Ont. Our family has been farming strawberries in Elgin County, Ontario since 1913 — over 110 years on the same land rotation. To our knowledge, we are the longest generational strawberry farm in the province. That kind of longevity doesn’t come from doing... Read More
Dairy farmer Crosbie Williams milks 180 cows in a modern freestyle barn at Pond View Farms in Goulds, Newfoundland. Williams and his brother, Ray, operate one of 19 dairy farms in a province that boasts the largest dairy operations, based on average cow numbers, in the country. Those farms produce 100 per cent of the... Read More
With the Canadian Grocery Sector Code of Conduct complete, attention now turns to the implementation and education around what the code will and won't provide for industry players. The code was finalized last year and will come into force in June 2025. That means there needs to be a body that overseas the code and... Read More
In this episode of The Truth About Ag, co-hosts Kristjan Hebert and Evan Shout sit down with Lisa Ashton, agriculture policy lead on RBC’s Climate Action Institute Team, to dive into the big questions shaping Canadian agriculture. Ashton shares insights from RBC’s latest reports, including the Food First Report, breaking down why RBC is investing... Read More