Celebrating Canada's Agriculture Day

Posted on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021

"Let’s raise a fork to the food we love and the people who produce it! This February, celebrate Canadian agriculture and food both online and with friends, family and co-workers, and let everyone know how you feel about this awesome industry." -Canada's Agriculture Day website

Canada’s Agriculture Day 2021 is on February 23. To celebrate we asked our students about the importance of agriculture. Here is what they had to say:

Oresta Hewryk

Undergrad student, honours agriculture

Oresta in a barn with a dairy calf.

Why is celebrating Canadian agriculture important?

It is important to the celebrate Canadian Ag every day– not just today. Agriculture is a rich and crucial part of our country’s history and we need to do our part to bring awareness to the achievements of this Canadian industry. -Oresta Hewryk

E'layna Baker

Undergrad student, food, agricultural and resource economics

E'layna standing in the snow in front of a forest.

What does agriculture mean to you?

Agriculture means convening with our natural environment and discovering its unique ability to communicate with us through nourishing, healing and strengthening our bodies. Agriculture is the permanent reminder that we are capable of growth and excellence, just like our natural environment. It reminds us that providing the earth with the care and support it needs to thrive, is simply a fundamental responsibility of humanity. - E'layna Baker

Ibrahim Aburaneh

Undergrad student, environmental sciences

Ibrahim standing in a corn field, looking up at the tall corn with amazement.

What does agriculture mean to you?

For me, agriculture is life and can be the way we move forward in the world. Improving agriculture techniques and agriculture sciences can be the solution to increased global food security, nutrient management, and the climate crisis. On the local scale, agriculture helps us build stronger communities and makes us feel more connected to each other. After all, food is a language everyone understands. -Ibrahim Aburaneh

Victoria Huynh

Undergrad student, food science

Victoria holding a pumpkin in a pumpkin field.

What is your favourite thing about agriculture?

My favourite thing about agriculture is understanding the science between the environment and the organism itself. Especially as a Food Science student, a lot of the content that we learn is how to manipulate our raw material so that we can make it safe and accessible to those local and worldwide. But I think it’s really important to know where everything came from and how we can continue our traditional agricultural practices while providing food for everyone, in which we can proudly say is from Canada. -Victoria Huynh

Tatijana Vukovic

Undergrad student, landscape architecture

Tatijana smiles while reading a book, with plants behind her.

Why is celebrating Canadian agriculture important?

It is important to celebrate Canadian agriculture because we rely on agriculture for the many necessities that we use on a daily basis. It is important to acknowledge that working in the agriculture sector is not an easy job. There are a variety of challenges that those who work in the Agriculture sector face everyday and often these challenges are ones that you can’t control like mother nature itself. Where there is a challenge there is change and there is a need to adapt to those changes. Farmers and those who work in the agriculture sector are constantly adapting to these changes while making the best decisions for themselves and those around them in order to feed the country and provide the many necessities not only locally but to many other countries around the world. It is important to celebrate these people who work everyday to serve not only Canadians across the country but people all around the world! -Tatijana Vukovic