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Tag: Agriculture
Agri-food supercluster could super-charge Canada’s economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nine groups, including the Smart Agri-Food Supercluster, await word from Ottawa on which gets to tap the $950-million supercluster innovation fund
How blockchain can revolutionize the foodchain
Reading Time: 4 minutes Blockchain would enhance agri-food transparency, productivity, competitiveness and sustainability
NAFTA’s demise would force agri-food sector to adapt
Reading Time: 4 minutes Blame Washington all you want for the NAFTA impasse, but Canada has not demonstrated it wants to liberalize its trading position either
Ottawa’s tax changes could kill family farm
Reading Time: 4 minutes The federal government’s proposed changes to capital gains rules make it more difficult for a farm to stay in the family
Days of supply management may finally be coming to an end
Reading Time: 3 minutes And if they are, Canadian consumers with have NAFTA 2.0 and Donald Trump to thank for the decrease in the price of dairy products
Guiding Canada down a multicultural food path, with consequences
Reading Time: 3 minutes The next food guide will make the disconnect between Canadian agricultural policies and food consumption much more obvious
Serving up an unpalatable minimum wage for the food industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The effects of artificial intelligence and the rise of the digital world will force us to rethink how we produce, process and distribute food
From farm to fork, brought to you by artificial intelligence
Reading Time: 3 minutes With AI, yields can be improved and grocers can understand consumers – and predict their behaviour – better than consumers know themselves
Trump’s milk shake puts Canada’s dairy industry on notice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s dairy farmers are about to pay a heavy price for Ottawa’s lack of leadership. Dramatic changes are on the way on someone else’s terms