It is four kilometres from David and Barb Wedman’s farm to the south edge of the City of Edmonton’s corporate limit. When the family homestead was first settled in 1892, the city was a full day’s trav...

Walk through the aisle of any Canadian grocery store and you’ll be bombarded with a huge variety of labels and product claims. Some products market themselves as organic, humane or natural, while othe...

More than 15 years after its creation, Golden Rice continues to have a polarizing reputation. For some, it is a miracle food and scientific triumph, while others view it as dangerous, unproven and a t...

It’s kind of ironic that bleeding-edge technology is helping people get back to simpler, healthier food. For years, nutritional information has been provided on food labels and even at major restauran...

The role of a farmer is changing. It is no longer just about producing food, but about being an advocate—or “agvocate,” as the agriculture industry likes to call it—for the food being produced....

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...