The National Farmers Union (NFU) says the federal government’s National Food Security Strategy recognizes the risks of corporate concentration in Canada’s food system but misses the mark on solutions, arguing that its $3.2-billion, 10-year plan relies too heavily on deregulation and technological investment. The NFU says its 2026 Fair Food Prices? report found that Canadians … Read more
On June 9-10, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada at the Swift Current Research and Development Centre proceeded with destruction of the Organic and Regenerative Research Program’s research plots by seeding across the land with wheat, making it impossible to salvage data required to complete studies that were in progress prior the announcement of cuts and closures … Read more
On May 6, the House agriculture committee presented its report on Science in Canadian Agriculture and the Closure of Research Centres to the House of Commons, which recommends that the government pause and reverse its decision to close these research centres and experimental farm sites and to reconsider its decision to cancel the organic and regenerative program at the Swift … Read more
The National Farmers Union says protecting Canada’s food supply requires defending the country’s supply management system amid rising sovereignty and trade pressures. It says supply management has three pillars—production discipline (quotas), cost-of-production pricing and import controls—with quotas ensuring stable year-round supply and preventing price swings, while farmers receive prices reflecting their production costs to guarantee … Read more
Fourteen farmer and seed advocacy organizations have written to Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Heath MacDonald (Malpeque, PEI) urging him to listen to Canadian farmers – not multinational seed companies – and abandon proposed restrictions to farmers’ seed saving rights. Thousands of Canadians signed an e-petition opposing proposed changes making it illegal for farmers to save seed from Plant … Read more
Members of the National Farmers Union (NFU) have passed a landmark resolution at their National Convention to join the global movement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. The resolution comes as Israel continues to block food aid from entering Gaza, causing starvation and famine, … Read more
The National Farmers Union (NFU) is urging the federal government to reverse plans to cut Canada Post services, warning that ending home delivery and lifting the moratorium on rural post office closures would accelerate privatization and harm rural communities. It congratulates the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for striking against the government’s push to end … Read more
The National Farmers Union condemned the Israeli military’s destruction of a Seed Multiplication Unit in Hebron on July 31, 2025, which belonged to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, a Palestinian farmer organization. The NFU said the facility housed heritage seeds carefully preserved by Palestinian farmers for generations, describing the attack as a deliberate assault … Read more
The National Farmers Union (NFU) urges the federal government to withdraw Bill C-2, The Strong Borders Act. Bill C-2 jeopardizes the safety and rights of migrants and refugees, threatens agricultural production, and grants sweeping powers for the government to pry into the private lives of all Canadians. The bill empowers the government to cancel, suspend, or change … Read more
The NFU sent the following letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney (Nepean, Ont.) and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand (Oakville East, Ont.): “The National Farmers Union would like to express our strong support for Canada’s demand for the cessation of all Israeli military operations against Palestinians in Gaza and for Israel to uphold the principles … Read more
