Agriculture

Ottawa shells out $20 million to bolster Canada's food inspection services

OTTAWA, ON. -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will be getting $20-Million from the federal government to support critical food inspection. It's to ensure that Canadians will have continued...

Apr 14, 2020 CFIA inspectors -- photo credit to CFIA

Union calls for temporary closure of meat-packing plant in High River over COVID-19 concerns

HIGH RIVER, AB - The union representing workers at one of Cargill's plants in Southern Alberta says it needs to enter a two-week closure.United Food and Commercial Workers Canada Union (UFCW) local 40...

Apr 13, 2020 (Cargill Meat Solutions)

Farmers, food processors to get federal funds to help foreign workers isolate

OTTAWA, On. - Canadian farmers and food processors will get $50 million in federal funding to ensure temporary foreign workers comply with mandatory COVID-19 quarantine.Agriculture Minister Marie-Clau...

Apr 13, 2020 Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau - The Canadian Press

McCain Foods donates 20 million pounds of potatoes to combat food insecurity

FLORENCEVILLE-BRISTOL, NEW BRUNSWICK - McCain Foods has announced a donation to help out Food Banks Canada, Second Harvest and other local food security organizations across the country.The company ha...

Apr 10, 2020 McCain Foods will distribute 20 million pounds of potatoes to help combat food insecurity global pandemic (CNW Group/McCain Foods)

Some issues, but agriculture sector can still access temporary foreign workers

CALGARY, AB. -- The COVID-19 pandemic has led to issues getting temporary foreign workers for some sectors of the agriculture industry.Charlotte Shipp with Alberta Pork says her group is thanking the ...

Apr 09, 2020 Piglets - Photo from the Alberta Pork Facebook page

Landowners and legal experts criticize Alberta’s well cleanup bill

EDMONTON, AB. - Landowners and legal experts are criticizing Alberta's hastily passed new legislation intended to help clean up the province's huge stockpile of abandoned energy facilities. The bill, ...

Apr 08, 2020 Pump Jack on farmland - The Canadian Press

Canadian farmland values continue to soften amid uncertainty: FCC

CALGARY, AB. -- The average value of Canadian farmland increased by 5.2 per cent in 2019, the smallest increase over the past decade, according to the latest Farmland Values Report from Farm Credit Ca...

Apr 08, 2020 Harvest in progress - photo credit to Glenn Miller

Work continues for cattle producers as they accommodate COVID-19

CALGARY, AB. -- While many businesses in the province have come to a stand-still, there are others that have seen no reduced work load.Those who work in the cattle industry have thousands of people re...

Apr 07, 2020 Cattle in the field - LNN

Second Harvest Food Rescue offers more than $4.5 million to community groups who feed Canadians

TORONTO, ON. -- Canadian homes throw away $1,766 worth of food every year. The dollar value of unused food thrown out by businesses every year, is in the millions of dollars.As the COVID-19 pandemic d...

Apr 06, 2020 Second Harvest food recovery - graphics from Second Harvest

Reassuring Canadians of public safety, with the National Strategy for Critical Infrastructure

OTTAWA, ON. --- With a continuing period of great uncertainty about how long we will be impacted by COVID-19, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, is assuring Canadians that the government is ta...

Apr 03, 2020 Food supply -- LNN