Food Politics

JANUARY 11, 2024

But I had no idea food crops were also being grown to make diesel fuels—until I saw this tweet/post: I went right to the source: Renewable Diesel Feedstock Trends over 2011-2022 The growth in renewable diesel production capacity in the U.S. The post Food crops for biodiesel? Apparently so.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 19, 2025

Agriculture is forever evolving and so is the business of fertilizer and crop nutrition. Its been 20 years since fertilizer heavyweight, The Mosaic Company, was formed by a merger between IMC Global and Cargills crop nutrition division.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Leaping off of the second day of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s event focused on ag policy and sustainability, RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney tackles benchmarking; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) pressure; and driving change on this episode of the Ag Policy Connection podcast!

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Food Politics

JULY 12, 2024

IPES Food (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems) has a new report, Food From Somewhere: Building food security and resilience through territorial markets. The report argues that territorial food systems are better able to promote food security than industrial food systems.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At a glance across the country: Meatpacking plants closed at an unprecedented rate this year, accelerated by a number of factors such as rising livestock costs, workforce shortages, food safety violations and foodborne illnesses, and ongoing industry consolidation. Pretty certain: food prices will rise.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 13, 2024

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has announced up to $5,733,852 for the Canadian Field Crop Research Alliance (CFCRA) through the AgriScience Program – Clusters Component, an initiative under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, to promote more diverse crop rotations on farms.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

farms producing food for consumption has been steadily declining for years, making us more reliant on other countries as we resort to importing necessary foods. We need Congress to reevaluate the subsidies provided to big ag, and prioritize farmers growing and raising nutritious food for our nation. Whos gonna grow our food?

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems. Six experts have their say on how to transform food systems, and dietary diversity seems to be a common (though not a universal) theme. Plant-based diets–impacts of consumption of little or no animal-source foods on human health. Damn you, nuance!

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 8, 2024

Planting corn directly into a living cover crop before it is killed by herbicide or tillage is not something growers would have considered 30 years ago, says Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural affairs soil management specialist Jake Munroe. Read More

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strengthening local economic markets and smallholders access to them creates a mutually generative cycle of food and ecological resilienceessential to strong local incomes and livelihoods. Specialty crop export and global food trade are still only a minor part of the worlds food story.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 22, 2025

The microbiomes of animals, on and in crops, and in soil and water are incredibly complex that are intricately interconnected, with each influencing the others in various ways.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This designation helps sustain Native culture, reassure public health, and encourage state food sovereignty. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to embrace these benefits. Studies have also found that the elixir may have broader medicinal potential, from anti-cancer benefits to treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 14, 2025

Weather is a central topic in many coffee shop conversations, plays a large role in the success or failure of a crop, and is outside of a wheat growers control. Dr. Brian Beres, senior research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Read More But that doesnt mean farmers cant at least try and out-maneuver Mother Nature.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 16, 2024

Pulse crop and plant-based food ingredient company Global Food and Ingredients Ltd. based company bought and marketed peas, beans, lentils, chickpeas and other high-protein specialty crops, operating three handling facilities at Lajord, Sedley, and Zealandia, Sask., The Toronto, Ont.-based

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Traditional or Indigenous foodsoften defined by locally grown ingredients, unique preparations, and centuries-old customshold a special place in the cultural fabric of societies across the globe, the Journal of Foods describes. Combined with sensations like texture, temperature, and smell, this reaction forms the experience of flavor.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Here’s my third Who Knew post of the week, this one an at-a-glance explanation of what’s wrong with the US food system, courtesy of FarmDocDaily. In 1980 or so, corn and soybeans comprised about 20% each of total crop acreage. A focus on feed and fuel, not food? Time to rethink the food system! Now it’s 30% each.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 14, 2024

The new crop year begins August 1, 2024, and each year the Canadian Grain Commission provides an update on grain grading changes and variety designations taking effect for the upcoming crop marketing cycle. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MAY 3, 2024

That’s because the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) published the third and final update regarding the rules for gene-edited crops going forward, clearing a regulatory pathway for them to be. Read More

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farmers Weekly Plant breeders have welcomed proposals by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for a new streamlined, science-led approach to regulating gene-edited crops in England. Until recently, it was […] The post FSA unveils streamlined approach to gene-edited crops appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 20, 2024

As cereal crops race to the finish line across Ontario, many growers are weighing the option of planting soybeans after a first harvest, which is already underway in some winter barley fields in southwestern portions of the province. farmer Ian Matheson and his family have been double cropping soybeans for two decades. Embro, Ont.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The world is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainable food systems, and organic agriculture plays a vital role in this movement. This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For the FY25 budget, NIFA is suggested a $3.5

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 16, 2025

Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, terrestrial carbon emissions, and cropland expansion in the tropics. Crop improvements from 19612015 resulted in less cropland expansion, lower greenhouse gas emissions and fewer extinctions. Yield growth patterns of food commodities: Insights and challenges.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system.” Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system. The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. One key reason: the industrial food chain and its ultra-processed foods are deeply dependent on fossil fuels.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Brezzell said the farm and design firm’s mission is to be a resource to the community, helping Detroiters achieve food sovereignty by providing fresh, accessible food, some at no cost. We wanted to break down that immediate barrier to accessing food. … Food was never meant to be a commodity.”

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Several companies across the plant-based value chain have partnered to develop new artificial intelligence technology that is expected to improve the quality of Canada’s protein crops and ingredients. Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-food (CANZA) has announced a $4 million effort, with backing from the federal government, Maple Leaf Foods, and Nutrien, to develop and scale tools to measure, report, and verify (MRV) soil carbon, potentially unlocking new sources of revenue for farmers.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

It has wiped out most of last year’s rain-fed crops, particularly the now staple crop, maize. With up to 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population surviving on rural economic activitiesmostly rain-fed crop farmingrecurring droughts are devastating to the country. We lost our entire maize crop.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 30, 2024

Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay has announced just over $8 million in funding for small acreage crop research under the five-year Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership framework.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

It seems that everywhere you go right now, farmers are talking about cover crops. Read More It seems that everywhere you go right now, farmers are talking about cover crops. Read More It seems that everywhere you go right now, farmers are talking about cover crops. In this Farming Forward. In this Farming Forward. Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 31, 2025

I spent all last week at the 20th Session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources in Rome : “[t]he Commission is the only permanent intergovernmental body that specifically addresses all components of biological diversity for food and agriculture.” FAO has a nice summary of the key findings.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 20, 2025

Water scarcity has put Texas farmers crops at risk and shuttered the states last sugar mill , and Mexico is far behind on its obligations to share water from the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers. The post USDA Pauses Additional Food Bank Funds, Directs New Money to Texas Farmers appeared first on Civil Eats. Link to this post.)

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Located on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay sits Alameda County, where Dig Deep Farms ’ two farm sites grow rows and rows of fresh food. Our food system relies on the security of small farms, but these farms face many obstacles—including land access, access to business resources, and access to buyers.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Our food & farming reviews of 2025 are here what’s been cropping up this past year and worth watching? China, in particular, is concerned with the future of their food and water having lived through the Great Chinese Famine three devastating years between 1959 and 1961. Featured image courtesy of Rob Carmier.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The federal and Saskatchewan governments have announced funding of $5 million for the Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre in Saskatoon. Read More

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In spring 2021, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) announced funding to expand its Living Labs initiative to every province. One such organization is Food Water Wellness Foundation in Alberta. One such organization is Food Water Wellness Foundation in Alberta.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 3, 2025

million to match federal AgriStability funding during a visit to the Maple Leaf Foods hog processing plant at Brandon, Man. million to match federal AgriStability funding during a visit to the Maple Leaf Foods hog processing plant at Brandon, Man. Premier Wab Kinew announced $10.7 Premier Wab Kinew announced $10.7 on Read More

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