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So what’s up with the mystery of the missing garlic in our supermarkets?!? Continue reading Mystery of the missing garlic 
If they don’t, a US researcher told delegates at the Beef Industry Convention in London ON recently, we will experience higher food prices, destroy sensitive ecosystems as they’re pressed into food production and hinder the development of new, “green” energy sources like ethanol. Continue reading The right to farm and feed the world Today marked an important milestone in Canada – and it probably went unnoticed by most of us. February 12 is 2009′s Food Freedom Day, the day when Canadians have earned enough money to pay for their year’s grocery bill. I keep reading the same messages over and over again lately – and from different parts of the world. Agriculture, it seems, is under fire from government. Continue reading Regs, regs and more regs for farmers According to some experts, there IS a silver lining in the economic cloud – lower food prices. An article I just saw in the Toronto Star says that food prices have fallen in some countries and are likely to do the same in Canada. Do we care if our meat is made in Canada? It soon won’t matter, says a report by a Guelph-based agricultural think tank, because there may not be any. The following article was printed in the Waterloo Region Record on September 30 2008. Farmers aren’t to blame for rising food prices The global food crisis is starting to hit home. Even here in Ontario where a strong farming sector produces an abundance of top quality food and exports much of it to other countries, higher food prices are becoming a fact of life. The growth of renewable fuels – especially ethanol whose main ingredient is corn – and the concept of growing plants for fuel instead of food are being pegged as the number one reason behind the rising food costs. This corn, the argument goes, is corn that should be going to feed people and not cars. |   | ||||
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It is really hard to find Ontario-grown garlic in our grocery stores. And yet there are farmers in our province that grow the pungent bulb – I know this because I’ve met some of them. I’ve even toured some farms.
The world’s demand for food and food-based products is set to double – if not triple – by 2050 and farmers must speak up for their right to meet that demand using conventional farming methods combined with new technologies.