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1. Green energy proponents predict business as usual – for now

   ... hoped the application periods for FIT programs “will open more on schedule and as predicted,” Gorman says. In September, the authority ... that wind development creates environmental problems, human health risks and has had a negative impact on the economy by increasing the ...

   Mary Baxter - Oct 17 2012 - 17:34 - 2 comments

2. Tribunal dashes Canadian dairy industry’s efforts to eliminate tariff loophole

   ... means “the restaurants are able to access product more inexpensively than they would have been able to otherwise.” The ... for at least the last 30 years, Forbes, a US-based business magazine, has published financial indices of publicly-traded companies by ...

   Mary Baxter - May 8 2013 - 18:01 - 9 comments

3. NFU report calls for restrictions on foreign and corporate ownership of Canadian farmland

   ... those cited in the NFU report. His six-year-old company owns more than $300 million in Canadian farmland leased back to farm operators.   ... and yields 3.3% 2). Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), in the health care sector, has raised its dividend for 50 years, the last 10 years has ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 11 2015 - 17:35 - 23 comments

4. Canadian beef farmers want mediator for BSE suit

   ... Afgan detainees. “My question is: Are Afgan detainees more important to the government of Canada than 135,000 hard-working Canadian ... and poultry products, and almost nothing to do with the health risk of BSE. The Canadian livestock industry knows this all-too ...

   Mary Baxter - Oct 8 2010 - 15:19 - 10 comments

5. Tim Hortons wants sow crates gone

   ... in its updated Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs, due out June 1 for public comment, Faveri says his personal feeling is ... were in crated systems, Skinner notes, adding there can be health benefits if a farmer manages a loose housing system correctly. The ...

   dstoneman - Apr 5 2013 - 10:29 - 27 comments

6. Institute calls for agri-food industry to work together to reverse troubling trade trend

   ... headquartered in Montreal, says the industry must be more vocal in telling people it’s the number one industry in Canada and in ... and supply chains face rising societal expectations about health, ethics, sustainability and provenance, according to the Institute’s ...

   Mary Baxter - Jun 18 2014 - 12:43 - 3 comments

7. Conspiracy killed Pigeon King?

   ... people who did not want it to succeed. “There’s far more behind this than meets the eye,” he said Wednesday from his home near ... with Better Farming , Galbraith questioned whether the magazine had been involved in “fear mongering.” During the same ...

   editor - Mar 19 2012 - 18:54 - 3 comments

8. Wage panel doesn’t include anyone from agriculture

   ... spent that much money, to sponsor anything agricultural? Do pigs have wings? The City of Kitchener knows where the primary growth in our ... list of why milk consumption is down, but you can add cost, health concerns, increasing alternatives, inconvenience (shelf life) and ...

   Mary Baxter - Aug 13 2013 - 14:03 - 84 comments

9. New leasing arrangements on the way for Ontario’s egg farmers

   ... quota of 700 birds would be allowed to lease up to 700 more birds, bringing the number of birds in the barn up to 1,400. By way of ... I don't earn a Florida salary, face their tax differences, health care, hydro etc etc etc. That's why I would not make uninformed, biased ...

   Mary Baxter - Feb 3 2015 - 11:45 - 31 comments

10. RMP slammed in fiscal commission report

    ... the confidence to plan ahead and enables them to plan to be more labour, fertilizer and fuel efficient, plus increase yields and ... will the government anger the teachers' union and the health care workers? NO. Will the government step outside the Drummond ...

    dstoneman - Feb 19 2012 - 16:39 - 6 comments