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Farmers’ Rights: India and the Corporate Control of Food

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | February 2021 Join us February 25-26 for the NFU-O’ s first-ever online annual convention and...
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Perry Farm’s community-built food pantry

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | November 2020 This article is part of our series profiling our members’ response to the...
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Post-pandemic food and farming

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | October 2020 Among the many things COVID- 19 has done, it has exposed the many...
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Farming in the face of a pandemic

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | July 2020 As a grassroots organization, the NFU is its members, and there is no...
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Where’s the Beef (Processors)?

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | March 2020 The closure of provincially licenced abattoirs in Ontario has been carrying on for...
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Provincial Policy Statement – Planning for the future

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | November 2019 Recently, the NFU-O provided feedback to the revised Provincial Policy Statement, the document...
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Farming as Collateral Damage in the Age of Trade Wars

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | September 2019 By Don Ciparis, NFU-O President Current trade tensions between China and the United...
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The future of Business Risk Management Programs: Agri-Resilience

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | August 2019 Canadian farmers are feeling vulnerable to the increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather, and...
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Calling on government to protect farm families from animal extremists

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | June 2019 Any farmer who reads agricultural news is aware of the increased harassment and...
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