Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s federal government trumpets fiscal responsibility; their silence on a day of massive Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada cuts was baffling at best.
Government silence loud on AAFC cuts
Fiscal responsibility should mean owning the responsibility for fiscal decisions
Electioneering overload
This has been a more-bruising-than-usual national campaign
Reading Time: 3 minutes Grainews editor Dave Bedard says farmers might not like politics, but they need to engage in it if they want to be heard - even with candidates they might not personally support.
Mounting pressure on farmland losses raise flags for agricultural agvocates
Canada’s soil health and farmland cannot get lost in the political shuffle as candidates bandy words on expanding housing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s 2025 federal election is coming. Soil health and farmland cannot get lost in the shuffle as political candidates bandy words on expanding housing.
We’ve seen trade wars before, but this time is different
Canadian farmers are both being caught in the crossfire and, at the same time, targeted by looming trade spats
Reading Time: 3 minutes The U.S. and China are squaring up for a trade showdown while also taking aim at Canada, and that makes for a different kind of trade war than Canadian farmers have weathered before.
The environmental cost of conflict
Farmers around the world pay the price for the wars they didn’t start
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers around the world pay the price for the wars they didn’t start
Reconciliation can happen, one relationship at a time
Reconciliation is about year-round action and relationship building
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reconciliation in agriculture is about year-round action and relationship building.
East-west issues are more similar than different
Farmers should put their regional differences aside on common issues
Reading Time: 2 minutes Opinion: Farmers should put their regional differences aside on common issues.
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