Pierre Petelle, president and CEO, CropLife Canada warns against the unintended consequences of more regulatory burdens on registrants and growers. The Pest Management Regulatory Agency’s consultation ends August 24, 2024.
- CAPI’s Inaugural Agri-Food Risk Report Phase 1 finds that 550 surveyed stakeholders are optimistic for the future but are concerned with policy, extreme weather, and trade risks. All this, and 62 per cent say they’re optimistic for the future.
- The Potato Sustainability Alliance held its summer symposium at McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago. The meeting drilled deeper on the Water Stewardship Framework.
- The Canadian Federation of Agriculture has laid out an agenda that data is the foundation for sustainable productivity growth.
- The annual conference of federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers covered an array of issues in Whitehorse, Yukon.