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New three-year partnership to help 4-H

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4-H Canada and BASF Canada Agricultural Solutions (BASF) recently announced a renewed partnership, which is designed to help youth leaders make positive contributions to their communities and advocate for important issues. The renewed partnership is effective from 2021–2023. It will see BASF continue as the lead partner of 4-H Canada’s Community Engagement & Communications Pillar […] Read more
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Agriculture program launched at Listowel District Secondary School

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The Avon Maitland District School Board recently announced a new agriculture program at Listowel District Secondary School. Students in Grades 11 and 12 can enroll in the new Specialist High Skills Major in Agriculture to connect with industry professionals, hands-on learning and co-op placements. The program announcement said that the new program isn’t a return […] Read more
Members of the Regina Pats during a May 20, 2018 game against New Brunswick’s Acadie-Bathurst Titan at Brandt Centre in Regina. (CHL photo by Marissa Baecker)
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Ag equipment maker buys WHL’s Regina Pats

Brandt takes full ownership of hockey club

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Regina-based machinery manufacturer the Brandt Group is levelling up from partner to full owner of the Western Hockey League’s Regina Pats. Brandt, which since 2005 has held the naming rights to the Pats’ home arena, Brandt Centre — formerly the Regina Agridome — said Friday it has approval from the league’s board of governors and […] Read more
Most farmers in India remain small in production and land use.
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Opinion: Why Indian farmers are so angry

The Modi government’s agricultural reforms are causing widespread uncertainty

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India’s farmers have been protesting since the autumn, with a growing intensity that culminated in a violent breaching of barriers in the Red Fort in Delhi during India’s Republic Day celebrations on Jan. 26. The protests were spurred by the passing of a set of agricultural reform bills in parliament in September 2020 that aimed […] Read more
Grain being loaded on a ship at the Hudson Bay port of Churchill in 2015. (MarketsFarm photo by Jade Markus)
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Port of Churchill moves to 100 per cent local ownership

Corporate partners step out of owner group

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MarketsFarm — The Port of Churchill is undergoing an ownership transition that will see its OneNorth community and Indigenous partners assume 100 per cent ownership of the Hudson Bay port and the rail line connecting it to northwestern Manitoba. The Churchill Marine Tank Farm and associated assets are also part of the deal, according to […] Read more
Workers prepare foodstuffs at a food distribution centre supported by the World Food Program at Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, on June 3, 2020. File photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah

U.N. counts cost of ‘man-made’ famines

US$400 for a plate of rice and beans?

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New York | Reuters — Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago U.N. food chief David Beasley met a starving five-month-old girl at a hospital in Yemen — she died on Thursday. […] Read more
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Letters: Too many farmland loss stories

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Dear editor, Unbelievable or maybe believable! In the Feb. 8, 2021 edition of Farmtario, the situation occurring with Marsha Rempel and her farmland being expropriated, although not totally the same situation, has a similarity to what is occurring in the Municipality of South Bruce. How do city/municipal councils get to ruin the lives of their […] Read more
Ontario farmland continues to grow with strong prices for crops.
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Land prices continue upward trend

Low interest rates, good commodity prices, and non-farm buyers push land values higher across the province

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The pandemic might have slowed the economy in 2020, but it didn’t slow the growth in land values. In fact, the ongoing global viral calamity is, in its own way, another factor contributing to per-acre purchase costs.  In his annual “Southwestern Ontario Land Values” report, Ryan Parker, partner with London area real estate appraiser Valco, […] Read more
Opinion: Keep an eye on Budget ‘21
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Opinion: Keep an eye on Budget ‘21

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The federal government’s next budget could have a significant impact on the future of Canadian agriculture.  It’s worth paying attention to. Canadians didn’t get a 2020 budget: it was an early casualty of COVID-19, cancelled in the pandemic’s infancy.  Instead we were offered economic updates and a series of spending announcements, almost entirely COVID-19 related.  […] Read more

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