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		<title>Plea from farmers: Save our farms</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/04/06/plea-from-farmers-save-our-farms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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Ontario’s farmers are using a town hall meeting in Stratford today to reach out to the public. The Save our Farms forum will focus on the beleaguered state of Ontario’s farming sector and on what the future of an Ontario without farming could look like down the road if nothing is done. 
The past several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food policy could end farming crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/01/27/food-policy-could-end-ag-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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There’s a crisis in agriculture. It’s an oft-repeated statement, one that at times comes from beef and pork farmers, and other times from the grain or the fruit and vegetable growers. 
In fact, it seems as though there’s always a crisis in agriculture – perhaps in different sectors at different times, but it always seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding the world without destroying it?</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/12/14/feeding-the-world-without-destroying-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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By 2025, farmers need to double their food output to feed an estimated global population of eight billion. That&#8217;s a startling statistic and what it means is something we all need to start thinking about. 
I came across it in a report on the Colorado Ag Classic, a convention of Colorado wheat, seed, corn, sunflower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK water rules sign of future for Canada&#8217;s farmers?</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/04/06/sign-of-things-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/04/06/sign-of-things-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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A new strategy on water usage in agriculture unveiled by Britain&#8217;s Environment Agency paints a potentially grim picture for farmers.
This according to a report in Farmers Weekly, a leading British agricultural publication. The strategy includes tighter restrictions on agricultural irrigation as well as increased costs for water recycling and construction of on-farm reservoirs.
It is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farming &#8211; solution to economic woes?</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/02/27/farming-solution-to-economic-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/02/27/farming-solution-to-economic-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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The following column I wrote was printed in the Guelph Mercury yesterday.
Agriculture proving its worth in today&#8217;s economy
There’s a lot of worrying and hand-wringing going on in Ontario these days about the economic mess we now find ourselves in – and just as much hand-wringing and worrying about how we’re going to pull ourselves back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWF: organics not the answer to our food problems</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/02/22/organics-arent-the-answer-wwf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/02/22/organics-arent-the-answer-wwf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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If we want to feed the world &#8211; and do it in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner &#8211; organics won&#8217;t cut it.
That&#8217;s the message the World Wildlife Fund&#8217;s Director of Livestock will be bringing to the AGCare/Ontario Farm Animal Council annual meeting in Guelph on March 12. 
Bryan Weech says we have to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed dollars for ethanol research</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/01/30/fed-dollars-ethanol-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2009/01/30/fed-dollars-ethanol-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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One of the criticisms often lobbed at the ethanol industry is that using corn for fuel means there is less available for food. But a new research investment by the government of Canada aims to change that.

Agriculture and AGri-Food Canada announced almost $20 million of funding for the Cellulosic Biofuels Network (CBN) to conduct research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New president at Ontario Federation of Agriculture</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2008/12/07/new-president-at-ontario-federation-of-agriculture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2008/12/07/new-president-at-ontario-federation-of-agriculture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) elected Trenton ON-area farmer Bette Jean Crews as its new president at their annual meeting in Toronto last week.
Crews, previously a Vice President of the OFA, takes the helm of Ontario&#8217;s largest farm organization during a time of turmoil in agriculture. Farmers have been hit hard with higher prices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco deal could fall with government</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2008/12/03/tobacco-deal-could-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2008/12/03/tobacco-deal-could-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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Everything is still so up in the air that it&#8217;s hard to tell how the cards are going to play out with the current political crisis gripping Canada. If the government does change, what impact could that have on agriculture?
The tobacco industry could be one victim of the turmoil. 
A report in the Brantford Expositor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama + agriculture + Canada = ?</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2008/11/09/obama-agriculture-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2008/11/09/obama-agriculture-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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Now that America has it&#8217;s new President-elect in Senator Barack Obama, what does that mean for farmers? That&#8217;s a big question not only for farmers on either side of the Canada &#8211; US border, but also around the world. 
Although I did follow the US election fairly regularly, I didn&#8217;t pay as much attention to [...]]]></description>
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