Healthy soil is where good food starts. It nourishes the crops and supports livestock production for Canada’s food complement. Our capacity to produce essential goods here at home has gained a lot of attention lately, and we need healthy soil to do it. Photo: Travis Weins.
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Canada is critically dependant on the skills and knowledge of the folks who prepare, plant, pick and prune our horticultural produce every year. It’s not expertise that can be gained overnight, and we benefit hugely from the fact that many “ if not most “ return year after year. Let’s recognize these essential workers for the professionals that they are.
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Canadians pay among the lowest cost in the world for groceries, and have for decades. But COVID-19 is just the latest in a series of global missteps exposing the vulnerability of rock-bottom pricing. Securing our domestic food supply in times of need means re-thinking the priority of our food. Photo: x1klima
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No one was to blame when Ontario milk producers were forced to dump part of their production. COVID-19 threw a wrench into the dairy supply chain, where production and demand are usually in sync. The sector is a solid performer and a valuable contributor to our communities. Every month it donates hundreds of thousands of litres of milk and dairy products to local food banks. Photo: Guy Montag.
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A water quality initiative underway in Huron County is aimed at slowing the flow of water runoff on contoured land, where it’s particularly hard to manage. The project, headed by the Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association, brings to focus how sustainability has economic as well as environmental implications, so yield measurements are an important part of the study.
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.