The Farm & Food Care Foundation, a national charity with a mandate to ensure public trust and confidence in Canadian food and farming, is launching a Canada-wide farm photo contest with $4,000 in cash prizes available for winners of six categories. Winning photos will be used by the Foundation in a soon-to-be-released 2014 edition of... Read More
Category: Western Canada
Jimmy Kimmel, late night talk show host for ABC, took to the streets recently in its Pedestrian Question segment to gain insight into the hard-hitting issues affecting Americans. In this video, Jimmy takes to the streets to talk to people that choose a gluten-free diet and asks them the simple question, "What is Gluten?" Hilarity... Read More
On a warm evening last summer, I sat around a backyard barbeque with a number of people my wife works with. This group tends to be quite removed from the farm, naturally because many of them were raised in the city, and now live and work there as well. When discussing where the delicious watermelon... Read More
According to Statistics Canada, in the last decade, farms operated solely by women in Canada has grown from 3.9% to 5%, and women now account for 26% of all farm operators in Canada. And women continue to excel into leadership positions across the agriculture supply chain, as was evident in the number of passionate women... Read More
It definitely seems to be one of those springs that will get referred to as, "remember the spring of 2014?" It isn't too late yet, but frustration is really settling in as farmers just want to get #plant14 really going or, for many, just started. No matter if you are in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba or... Read More
Earlier this spring while having a nice quiet breakfast at a hotel restaurant, I overheard a very disturbing, but common conversation. Let me set the stage (table?) for you: There was a couple in their 70s sitting at the table beside me chewing away at their eggs Benedict when the husband says to his wife,... Read More
The National Energy Board has published some interesting numbers as data tallies were finalized for 2013's fourth quarter. The data shows drastic increases in rail movement of crude oil from 2012 to 2013. In 2012, October to December rail movement of crude oil was tallied at a little over 1.1M cubic metres (12.6K m³ per... Read More
Recent growth in farm land pricing has outpaced land's earning capacity. What does this mean for the farm? It means, among many other things, that land is more than even before an indicator of wealth and a business asset in the farming economy. This is good news for farmers who own land, however, it creates... Read More
Sometimes our path chooses us, rather than the other way around. In Shirley McClellan's case, the political life wasn't necessarily a goal, but happened more by being willing to say yes when an opportunity arose. In this interview filmed at the first-ever Advancing Women — Leadership in Agriculture conference, Real Agriculture founder Shaun Haney asks... Read More