Grain Growers of Canada

Few Agriculture Commitments in Federal Budget Disappoint Farm Groups

Few Agriculture Commitments in Federal Budget Disappoint Farm Groups

Apr 19, 2024 | 12:18pm
The Federal Budget, released Tuesday, contained very few commitments for the agriculture sector, which farm groups say is disappointing on several fronts. The Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) said it missed “an extension to the extended rail interswitching pilot, investments in trade-enabling infrastructure, investments in grain-related research and development, initiating a review of the Canada Grains Act, and […]

Grain Growers of Canada launches “Harvest from Hell” website

Feb 19, 2020 | 6:00am

The “Harvest From Hell” now has its own official website. The term was coined last fall while Western Canadian farmers struggled with weather conditions to combine the 2019 crop. Some growers were not able to finish the harvest with an estimated two million metric tonnes of canola left to take off on the Prairies this spring. […]