|  We all eat but most of us likely give it little thought beyond worrying about calories or fat content. We certainly aren’t likely to spend a lot of time thinking about who grew that food and the work that someone somewhere put into producing it.
But that’s the goal of the 2010 Faces of Farming calendar – getting us to know our food by knowing the farmers who grow it. It features Ontario farmers and farm families from across the province in starkly beautiful black and white photography. Continue reading Putting a face to farming 
In an effort to become a greater part of the debate around animal welfare, Canada’s farm animal councils have launched a new blog to set the record straight and encourage dialogue.
Continue reading Farm animal welfare blog launched I spent the day in Saskatoon today with reporters and editors from the Western Producer. Once a year, they all gather together for a staff conference – and today, I was on the agenda to do an introduction to social media. I am generally quite intrigued by the endless possibilities posed by social media, excited by the connections I have made and the things I have learned by using it and fascinated by how it continues to grow. Continue reading Using social media in agriculture  Canada is a land built on the foundations of agriculture and the hard work of generations of immigrants and farmers. These are the people who came to what was the “New World” to lay the groundwork for the life, culture and society we enjoy here today. Around the globe today, our country is admired as a producer of high quality food and as a leader in cutting edge agriculture.
Continue reading Experience new world agriculture in Canada
The word crisis is heard often at the moment. Unfortunately, it seems to be heard most often in conjunction with two other words: agriculture and farmers. In a country as wealthy and as entrenched in farming as ours, to me, there’s something fundamentally wrong with this picture.
Continue reading Our agriculture industry is at a crisis point As printed in the Guelph Mercury, June 4 2009: We have attempted to tell our story for years — but for the most part, people haven’t been interested in food and farming. After all, from the average Canadian’s perspective, there was safe food and plenty of it, so what else was there to know? But that was in the days before food scares, a misnamed influenza virus, and an increasing environmental awareness shifted the spotlight increasingly on to agriculture and food producers. Continue reading Farmers ready and willing to talk about food production These are interesting and exciting times to be in agriculture – and seemingly, even better times to be communicating about food and farming. I’m basing this on the growing popularity of the Eastern Canada Farm Writers Association (ECFWA), which reported record membership numbers at its annual meeting in the Niagara Region today. Continue reading Membership in farm writer group on the rise | |
