All Blog Posts Tagged 'food' (8)

Celebrity Chef Ted Reader At The Ontario Pork Congress: Loves Cooking With Pork.

Added by OntAG Admin on June 22, 2012 at 2:21pm — No Comments

The CFFO Commentary: Focusing in on Feeding the World

By Nathan Stevens

January 21, 2011

At a recent policy conference on the future of food and farming, Robert Thompson of the University of Illinois painted the big picture for agriculture worldwide over the next 40 years. There are huge factors that are shaping the future of food that have created an array of challenges and opportunities for agriculture.

The most obvious challenge will be that of ensuring that nine billion people are able to get the food they require to… Continue

Added by CFFO Blog on January 21, 2011 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Rich in Agriculture, Poor in food

This past week I attended a Kitchen Table Conversations in Clinton. My wife and I were two of only about seven people who attended. It was the last of 5 meetings held in the past two weeks across Huron County. There were two reps from the local food banks in attendance. It was interesting to learn about how the system operates and what their challenges are. They were "pleased" to see that the number of clients have increased. "Pleased" because the… Continue

Added by Wayne Black on May 29, 2010 at 10:45pm — No Comments

Ontario food processors: access SODP before Dec 22, 2009

Strong Ontario food and beverage processors – particularly those located in communities that have been hardhit by the recent economic downturn – are encouraged to apply to the Southern Ontario Development Program (SODP). SODP’s food and beverage initiative includes a $20 million fund of federal interest-free loans for upgrades, expansions, or modernization of commercial food and beverage production facilities, or fund a strategy to access new markets.

Ontario Food and Beverage… Continue

Added by Lisa McLean on December 15, 2009 at 10:18am — No Comments

We can’t abandon farmers to economic insecurity

The following editorial was printed in the Guelph Mercury on December 10, and also in a slightly shorter format in the Waterloo Region Record.

By Lilian Schaer

http://news.guelphmercury.com/Opinions/EditorialOpinion/article/572775

It’s been about a year since we were plunged into financial crisis and economic uncertainty. In response, governments in many… Continue

Added by Lilian Schaer on December 11, 2009 at 7:21am — No Comments

$20 million fund good news for Ontario food processors

Minister Goodyear announces investment to support Ontario’s food and beverage processors

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) announced a $20 million investment today in Guelph that will allow food and beverage processors operating in Southern Ontario access to funds to expand, modernize, innovate and/or improve their competitiveness.

AOFP President, Craig Richardson thanked… Continue

Added by Lisa McLean on November 10, 2009 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

I guess nightshade doesn't get frost bite

The sight of nightshade's purplish/black berries in a "food grade" soybean crop is every producer's worst nightmare. They stain the seed and dramatically reduce the value of the crop. In theory, you would kill uncontrolled nightshade prior to harvest with either a herbicide (i.e. Reglone, glyphosate) or mother nature (i.e. a frost), the berries would drop to the ground, never go through the combine and the seed would be left unstained. Unfortunately this is a theory, and reality shows us… Continue

Added by Mike Cowbrough on October 20, 2009 at 2:09pm — 3 Comments

Our agriculture industry is at a crisis point

Here's an editorial I wrote that was printed in the Guelph Mercury last week:

The word crisis is heard often at the moment. Unfortunately, it seems to be heard most often in conjunction with two other words: agriculture and farmers. In a country as wealthy and as entrenched in farming as ours, to me, there’s something fundamentally wrong with this picture.

There’s the dire situation of Canada’s hog farmers. They’ve been hit with a series of problems – a growing focus on… Continue

Added by Lilian Schaer on September 2, 2009 at 10:22pm — 1 Comment