Tout Garnie: Canada’s Taste for All-Dressed
Reputation can be extremely important. With food, reputations for transparency, taste, and production quality create preferences and brand loyalty. It is not a far stretch …
Fertilizer Investment… Led by Farmers
The Genesis Fertilizers Opportunity The largest production cost for Canadian farmers is in fertilizer. While Canada can simultaneously boast some of the most sustainable fertilizer …
Defining Sustainability with Our Dollars
Should we feel guilty about our grocery decisions? Consumers are getting louder about the types of products expected to be on grocery store shelves. No …
New Year, New Opportunity
Welcome Back to SAIFood 2026 As agricultural economists, we are sometimes asked to predict the future of food. How is production changing? Where should investments …
What’s in a Name?
An Overview of Generic Pesticides Product familiarity helps speed up decision-making. No one wants to do extensive research on all market options, so having a …
Listen and Share: Reflections from Cultivating Resilience
Returning to the west coast for the two days of the Cultivating Resilience Summit this year was almost a return to form for me. I …
Where Nutrition North Canada Falls Short
Part 2: …and How to Fix it More than a decade after its launch, Nutrition North Canada (NNC) continues to fall short for many Northern …
Don’t Skip the Cranberries
Nestled amongst our Thanksgiving classics is Canada’s second most-valuable fruit: the cranberry. It is easy to overlook the cranberry as merely seasonal. Sure, they’re tart …
Nutrition North Canada: How We Got Here
In Canada’s North, the price of a single bag of groceries can rival a week’s rent in the South. Nutrition North Canada (NNC), launched in 2011, was meant to bridge this gap by making healthy food more affordable in remote communities. But more than a decade later, questions remain: is the program truly addressing food insecurity, or are systemic challenges, like cultural responsiveness, transportation barriers, and outdated policy frameworks, still leaving Northern families behind?
The Summer Fruit Was Just Fine
An Okanagan update following the 2024 BC Tree Fruits Cooperative closure About a year ago, I took the opportunity to cry out the end of …