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.
- The association has announced three farm tours at different locations around the province – Niagara region, Lambton County, Brant County -- to showcase the broad growing range of the tree nuts.