Agriculture

Farmers who switch to higher value crops and expand irrigation acreage to increase their profits can increase agricultural water demand

Grain companies are being asked to eliminate administrative fees for the 2021-22 crop year

Eligible livestock for the Initiative include Canadian-owned female beef and dairy cattle, bison, elk, sheep or goats that are bred or intended to be bred

We don’t really know how well today’s suite of safety net programs will work for farmers in the current crisis

Farmers are fewer and have little influence against the pressures exerted by urban voters

Feedlot sector says it will take time to rebuild as tight feed supplies force some producers to reduce the size of their herds

Twenty-two per cent of crop combined locally

What would have happened had the government sincerely and competently, with enough resources, supported Indigenous peoples’ repeatedly expressed and emphasized desire to become farmers?

Crop yields far lower this year

“We were just two old guys who wanted to go on a wagon ride.”