Quinoa. New Zealand wine. Canola oil. In agriculture, we’re fortunate to experience game-changing food movements motivated by economics, science and ingenuity. The creative spark is what influences th...

From being businessmen and women to marketers to mechanics to animal care specialists,the average farmer is more than just a farmer. For some people, what farmers do on a daily basis is a bit of a mys...

When Henry Marshall Jenkins opened his first grocery store in Calgary in 1909, he probably had no idea of the trend his eventual chain of food retail outlets would launch on the Canadian food industry...

    BY TYLER DIFLEY   At Brian Otto’s third-generation family farm east of Warner, experimentation is the norm. Traditionally, Otto and his wife Carolyn grow a variety of grains, oilsee...

  By Tyler Difley   Greg Porozni, chairman of Cereals Canada, has a long history in agriculture, both on the farm and in the boardroom. The fourth-generation farmer runs a 5,000-acre operati...

After 11 years at the helm of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC), Rob McCaig is joining multinational brewing giant SABMiller as the company’s chief brewer for Europe....

The Barley Council of Canada (BCC) recently announced the appointment of Brett Campbell as its executive director...

Cam Dahl, president of Cereals Canada, is no stranger to the agriculture industry. In fact, he has been immersed in it his entire life, and he would not have it any other way....

Rail service in Canada has rapidly deteriorated, becoming a pressing and urgent concern. Thankfully, a CN rail strike that would have been devastating both to farmers and to Canada’s economy was avert...

There's a new sense of optimism in farming. Following decades of attrition, in which coming of age often meant abandoning the family farm, young farmers are leading much-needed industry renewal....