Canadian Food Focus, a national consumer outreach program to tell Canadian food and farming stories, explore how food is grown and raised, share recipes, and provide advice to help people make confident food choices.
Stuart Lawrence represents the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers on the FFC SK Board. He farms west of Rosetown in west central Saskatchewan and grows red lentils, durum wheat, malt barley, canary seed, flax, and canola. Lawrence Farms celebrated 100 years of farming in 2007 and also won the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association's Conservation Farm Family of the Year Award that same year.
Farm Food 360
Three new virtual reality tours, filmed throughout 2022 on bean and potato farms and processors, as well as at a broiler breeder farm, have been added to FarmFood360. These new tours join 22 other farm and food processing tours already filmed and available for viewing.
Watch and learnexactly how potatoes are grow, harvested, and stored, how they get to the potato chip facility and how they go from delicious potatoes to scrumptious potato chips.
to learn all there is to know about dry beans grown in Canada: who grows them, where they’re grown, how they go from the field to the processing facility, and more!
Take a look inside a Canadian broiler breeder poultry farm and learn all there is to know about raising this type of poultry flock. Then, you’ll travel to a Canadian hatchery and learn exactly what happens as the fertilized egg turns into a chick!
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In Canada, cattle are part of the prairie grasslands ecosystem, helping keep our native grasslands intact. Without cattle and the ranchers who raise them, we would be in danger of losing more of our native grasslands.
Genetic engineering refers to specific methods of plant breeding that use laboratory methods to change an organism’s DNA. It can be used to introduce one or more genes into a plant’s genetic makeup.
