The Guelph student chapter of the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association (CAMA) has won the Student Competition at the Annual NAMA Agri-Marketing Conference. 25 to 30 teams from universities and colleges in the USA and Canada participate in this conference every year.
University of Guelph Food and Agricultural Business student Radine Kruisselbrink placed 3rd in the National Agri-Marketing Association sales competition this week. This competition brings students from across North American together (virtually) to role play an agricultural sales call. Radine advanced from the preliminary round with a strong call where she worked through the soybean seed and herbicide decision with a large producer. In the finals she dealt with a producer who was making
A recent article in the Western Producer pointed to the findings of FARE faculty Brady J. Deaton jr. and his father Brady J. Deaton of the University of Missouri that “the evidence from price data does not indicate a failure in the capacity of the Canadian food system to adapt to COVID-19. Indeed, as we predicted, rapid upswings in the general price of food appear to have been avoided.”
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 farmland rents and values since 2016.
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 controversies around the texture of butter and questions about palm-based feed supplements for cows.
Part1 : A primer on palm-based feeds in dairy nutrition and dairy food, with Alejandro Marangoni, John Cant, and Dave Kelton https://youtu.be/VrqZrQc3hOg
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 life skills support. She uses a kitchen as a context for an activity to help people relax and be somewhat distracted while dealing with broader issues.