Plain, careful writing on supply management, trade, food prices, farm business and the value chains that link a field to a grocery shelf. Who gains, who pays and what the evidence says.
· Navdeep Grewal
Food processing is Canada's largest manufacturing industry, yet well-known plants still close. What decides which ones shut, which stay, and which get a second life.
Read the analysis ›· Colette Ranville
Contracts, shared data and joint problem solving can spread risk between farms and processors. How the main arrangements work, and why some partnerships fail.
Read the analysis ›· Duncan Strathearn
Twice in seven years China shut much of its door to Canadian canola. The record of those disputes shows how market access is lost, regained and paid for.
Read the analysis ›· Reid Gauthier
Canadian farmland has risen in value for decades. How Farm Credit Canada measures it, what pushes prices up, and why rents and returns lag behind land prices.
Read the analysis ›From the 1966 Jamaica agreement to today's Agricultural Stream: how farms hire seasonal workers from abroad, the rules on wages and housing, and the criticisms.
Gross margin, EBITDA and net margin measure different things. A plain guide to grocers' reports, the Competition Bureau's 2023 study, and where $100 goes.
New US quotas for milk, chicken, eggs and turkey, the end of milk Class 7, caps on powder exports and two dispute panels: what CUSMA did to supply management.
Loss happens before the store, waste at the store and after. How the UN indices and Canadian studies draw the line, and why a crate of produce can count twice.
Canada has an internal free trade deal, yet meat, milk and wine still stop at provincial lines. How the rules work, what they cost, and why they persist.
Canadian cattle and hog prices start in Chicago and are converted, adjusted and graded on the way north. How cash trade, basis, auctions and formulas fit together.
