Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

The number of jobs earmarked for elimination surprises farm leaders, shocks employee unions. ‘This cannot bode well,’ says OFA president, Mark Wales

‘We’ve heard consistently from the agri-food community that we need to more as a government to support local food and the buying of local food’: Wynne
photo: Kathleen Wynne

Cash income is expected to drop only slightly in 2013 from record 2012 levels

Applications are now being accepted under the AgriMarketing and AgriInnovation programs, two components of Canada’s new agricultural policy framework

Federal government’s aggressive focus on international trade obtains mostly thumbs up from Canada’s farm community

photo: Gerry Ritz

Beleaguered growers hope to hear by the end of the month about compensation for their frost-decimated crops

It’s back to the drawing board for Ontario as Federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz reaffirms his opposition to Ontario’s risk management program

photo: Gerry Ritz

Ontario’s agriculture minister wants to obtain a fair share of funding for the province and reduce the strings on how it’s spent

photo: Ted McMeekin

Other departments ‘are increasingly sensitive to the issues of rural Canadians’ says Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Food safety and traceability cited in federal government announcement