Farm Economic Viability

For the past 10 years, Nova Scotia’s farm businesses have been subjected to immense pressures that continue to drain much of the vitality and creativity from the industry and place them in an uncompetitive position.

In August, GPI Atlantic released a report on Farm Economic Viability in Nova Scotia and PEI...

The president of Maple Leaf Foods sat in front of a TV camera a couple of weeks ago to deliver a sombre apology.

Farmers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are now earning less than at any time in the last four decades—so little in fact that rural communities in both provinces are at serious risk.

Farm incomes in Nova Scotia and P.E.I. have hit rock bottom, according to a report released yesterday that shows farmers are sinking further into debt every year.

N.B. producers face challenge to pay their debts while competing against cheaper foods from other countries

Farmers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are now earning less than at any time in the last four decades, so little in fact that rural communities in both provinces are at serious risk.

Herman Berfelo and his family have tended to thousands of hogs on their sprawling farm in central Nova Scotia for more than five decades.

A new report says farm income in Nova Scotia and P.E.I. has hit rock bottom with farmers in both provinces now earning less than at any time in the last four decades.

This Canadian Press story also appeared in Aliant News, Canada East, Shaw, Winnipeg Sun, Cape Breton Post (lead front page story), New Brunswick Daily Gleaner, Guelph Mercury, Yahoo News, and CTV News, and in other media, as well as in radio news items on CFRB Radio. The story was also featured on CTV and Global TV, both of which interviewed lead author Jennifer Scott and Nova Scotia farmers.

Farmers are not only at the beginning of the consumer food chain - in Nova Scotia and P.E.I., at least, they're at the very bottom of it.

Farmers in Nova Scotia and P.E.I. are earning less than they have at any time in the last four decades, according to a new study released by GPI Atlantic.

Farmers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are now earning less than at any time in the last four decades, so little in fact that rural communities in both provinces are at serious risk.

A new study on farm economic viability in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island finds the two provinces' farmers "now earning less than at any time in the last four decades."