Category Archives: Agriculture (Rural)

(June 22, 2000) Agricultural Subsidies in Canada: 1990-1999

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(June 13, 2000) Non-farmers — rural residents and city folk alike –are ignorant, or so leading farm groups believe. Continue reading →

(January 25, 2000) High net worth puts farmers ahead of average Canadians
Higher, higher, higher! The net worth of a Canadian farm — what the farm’s worth after all the debts are paid — keeps climbing and climbing, from $550,000 in 1993 to $620,000 in 1995 to $650,000 in 1997, the last year for which Agriculture Canada has data. Potato farms top the scale, averaging almost $1.2-million. Poultry farms also have net worths of more than $1-million, and dairy farms, at an average of $960,000, come close behind. Continue reading →

(December 14, 1999) Subsidies support an industry that is a major polluter. It’s one of Canada’s most polluting industries, yet so sacred a cow that environmental authorities shy away from clamping down on it.

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(November 2, 1999) Ending farm subsidies would send marginal farmers to other jobs, let their land go wild again. Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow wants trade equity for Canada’s farmers to protect them from the high, trade-distorting subsidies that U.S. and European governments give their farmers. Continue reading →