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The Local Grain Revolution X (Retail Supported Agriculture? / Sprouting Grain)

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What is Retail Supported Agriculture?
As far as the North American local food movement is concerned, it’s not a concept that has yet been coined in any notable way. The Kootenay Grain CSA (community supported agriculture) project located in the Kootenay region of British Columbia is now changing that.
Community Supported Agriculture is most often a model [...]

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Why we must fight the Government’s plan to end the Canadian Grain Commission as a Farmer Advocate

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The following is an Op-Ed, published with permission, by National Farmers’ Union Vice-President Terry Boehm on Bill C-13, the Conservative government’s plan to amend the Canada Grain Act that is about to go before the House of Commons. For more information on the implications of the bill, please see this report by the Centre for [...]

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