Food & Agriculture

Panel demonstrates importance of preserving Indigenous foods

Members of three Indigenous nations based in Ontario shared the cultural importance of seeds at the recent Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO) annual...

UK farmer to Ontario growers: wheat is more than ‘poverty grass’

There’s an ocean between the United Kingdom’s Lincolnshire wheat fields and Southern Ontario, but the farmers can still learn from each other. Mark Stubbs, a...

AAFC researchers take a bite out of weed seed spread

An Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) research scientist is giving new life to old technology. In 2021, Andrew McKenzie-Gopsill, a Prince Edward Island-based scientist, began...

Diligence key to swine flu prevention in Ontario

Swine flu is a growing threat to Canadian farms and experts are calling on farmers to be more diligent in biosecurity protocols and monitoring. Why...

Ready for corn rootworm resistance?

Farmers should include rootworm control traits in their discussions about corn seed trait packages to help prevent the spread of Bt-resistant corn rootworm in...

Industry Ag News 1/30

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is launching a new online portal to streamline reporting of transactions involving U.S. agricultural land by foreign persons,...

Soybeans, corn, wheat end week with pressure from rising dollar

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling, pulling contracts to a lower weekly finish. The trade’s watching harvest in Brazil, which has a...

Sheep herd shrinks as goat numbers rise

The U.S. sheep herd contracted in 2025, while the goat herd grew slightly. Those year-to-year changes are at least partially in response to differences...

U.S. cattle inventory continues to contract with minimal expansion signs

The U.S. cattle herd continued to contract over the past year. The USDA says the domestic cattle inventory on January 1st, 2026, was 86.155...

Market Update: U.S. Rice Sale to Colombia Good News for Farmers

  It has been a long time since we’ve had something to look forward to, and this week we have two big opportunities before us. The first...

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