FARE News

Mar 15th, 2021
The 2020 farmland values and rental survey are now available at onfarmlandsurvey.com;  here you can find rent/price information, articles, podcasts, and graphics addressing...
Mar 8th, 2021
FARE faculty Mike Von Massow, in collaboration with Dairy at Guelph, hosted two panel discussions to help clarify what we know, don't know, and need to know about the recent...
Feb 17th, 2021
This is the second conversation that Mike von Massow had with Chef Pam Fanjoy. The focus on Pam's culinary therapy program that provides both cooking skills and mental health and...
Feb 1st, 2021
Join in to listen to the conversation - https://www.tvo.org/video/the-pandemics-impact-on-farming-and-food
Jan 26th, 2021
This is the 50th episode of the Food Focus podcast. We're excited to hit this milestone and look forward to talking to many more people about a wide variety of issues related to...
Jan 22nd, 2021
Congratulations to Mitch Gingerich for winning the Student Poster Competition at the 11th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference, which is hosted by the Canadian Agricultural...
Jan 22nd, 2021
Congratulations to Livia Sente for winning the Policy Brief competition at the 11th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference, and to Nicholas Bannon for placing second. Livia...
Dec 10th, 2020
Mike chats with Dana McAualey about the future of meat. We are seeing more and more restaurants offering plant based burgers (most recently McDonalds and the McPlant). Singapore...
Nov 23rd, 2020


This is the second half of Professor Mike von Massow's conversation with Angela Straathof on soil. In the first half they spoke about why soil is important and what soil...
Nov 12th, 2020
Prof. Michael von Massow and his wife Sheryl Howe have generously donated to the University of Guelph to establish the “First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Food and Water Scholarship...