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Canadian farmers have spring in their step from strongest commodity prices in years
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Pumpjacks draw oil out of the ground as a deer stands in a canola field near Olds, Alta., Thursday, July 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
TORONTO – Farmers like Andre Harpe have a little extra spring in their steps these days as agriculture crops fetch their highest prices in years, joining a boom in commodities such as lumber and base metals that is good news for the Canadian economy.
“Life is never perfect but I think it is a good time to be a farmer,” 56-year-old Harpe said during a break from seeding his 5,000-acre farm in Alberta’s Peace Region.
TORONTO - Farmers like Andre Harpe have a little extra spring in their steps these days as agriculture crops fetch their highest prices in years, joining a boom in commodities such as lumber and base metals that is good news for the Canadian economy.
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OTTAWA – While the 2021 federal budget is full of references to farmers and agriculture, it will take time to figure out the implications of some of the proposals announced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
The budget did brand farmers as “major players in Canada’s fight against climate change”, which suggests all the effort by farm groups to educate the government on what has been happening on many farms across Canada wasn’t in vain.
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