Mike von Massow
Average Farm Size Has Stopped Growing
By Reanna Braeker and Alfons Weersink Average farm size in Canada has fallen! In the 2021 census it was only 809 acres, down from 820...
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Mike von Massow
Jul 12, 20223 min read
Farm Numbers in Canada Continue to Fall but the Trend is Slowing
By Reanna Braeker and Alfons Weersink Farm numbers in Canada have been falling since the Great Depression and the numbers continue to...
Mike von Massow
Dec 17, 20203 min read
Revisiting Canadian Beef Processing: Is Everything Back to Normal?
Nicholas Bannon, Alfons Weersink, and Michael von Massow At the beginning of June, a Food Focus blog post spoke about the significant...
Mike von Massow
Aug 7, 20203 min read
Barriers to Precision Agriculture Adoption Across Canada and in the United States
By Nicholas Bannon, Sean Mitchell and Alfons Weersink Farm size, crop types, topography, climate, and labour use are only some of the...
Mike von Massow
May 1, 20201 min read
Why is Foodora leaving and what does it mean for food delivery in Canada
We recently heard the news that Foodora has decided to pull out of Canada's market. This came as a surprise as under today's social...
Mike von Massow
Apr 30, 20201 min read
No meat shortages expected in Canada
This news article was originally posted on the University of Guelph's news page on April 20th, 2020 and can be found here. Although...
Molly Gallant
Oct 24, 20194 min read
Is self-checkout on its way out?
At the end of every trip to the store, we are faced with two checkout options. The first is to step right up to a self-checkout machine,...
Molly Gallant
Sep 6, 20193 min read
Shaping the Canadian food waste conversation
This blog post discusses our team's recently published peer-reviewed article. For the full article, please visit this page. As we have...
Nicholas Bannon
Aug 29, 20193 min read
Canadian fertilizer application rates
This article was written by Nicholas Bannon and Alfons Weersink and was originally posted on farms.com. Rather than simply examining...
Mike von Massow
Aug 28, 20194 min read
African swine fever in China affects Canadian pork export market
I was recently asked to complete an email interview on African swine fever, the Chinese pork industry and Canadian exports. I thought it...
Nicholas Bannon
Aug 20, 20193 min read
Fertilizer use on the rise?
This article was written by Nicholas Bannon and Alfons Weersink and was originally posted on farms.com. Our recent article explored the...
Nicholas Bannon
Aug 12, 20193 min read
Crop acres and fertilizer applications
This post was written by Nicholas Bannon and Alfons Weersink and was originally posted on farms.com. Fertilizer use in agriculture is...
Mitchell Gingerich
Aug 2, 20194 min read
Canadian food is worth celebrating
August 3rd is Food Day Canada; a day set aside to celebrate Canadian food. Not only does that involve celebrating food planted, grown and...
Mike von Massow
Jul 5, 20192 min read
China and trade: easy to criticize but not much Canada can do
China continues to put up new barriers to trade for Canadian food products. Each action is built on the pretence of a technical issue,...
Mike von Massow
Jun 24, 20192 min read
Is Canada’s food policy biting off more than it can chew?
Last week, the Government of Canada released “Everyone at the Table”; a food policy for Canada. It has an ambitious agenda covering a...
Nicholas Bannon
Jun 3, 20193 min read
Are farm numbers declining across Ontario?
This post was written by Nicholas Bannon and Alfons Weersink and was first published on farms.com. While farm numbers have dropped at the...
Mike von Massow
Apr 1, 20193 min read
The weaponization of trade will hurt Canadian ag and food industry
Export trade has been an important part of Canada’s agriculture and food economy. Half of what we produce in this country is sold in...
Molly Gallant
Mar 25, 20194 min read
The fight against food waste should take place in the kitchen
Growing concerns about the environmental, economic and social impacts of food waste have resulted in this topic making headlines almost...
Molly Gallant
Mar 11, 20194 min read
Are all of the eggs in your basket the same?
The infamous egg has been through it all with us – the ups, the downs and the altogether scrambled. The rollercoaster ride of...
Mike von Massow
Mar 4, 20192 min read
Vegan virtue signalling complicates trend interpretation
Vegans and vegetarians have been getting considerable attention. The move to increasingly plant-based diets was reinforced by the newly...
RELATED PROJECTS
Considering the complexity of food, it is no surprise that conversations about it can be broad and diverse. In order to better understand how people think about food, Mike is involved in several projects. Learn more about each project below.
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH SUSTAINABLE RESTAURANT PROJECT
Our team is a group of students, faculty and community partners that are committed to working towards a more sustainable future for the restaurant industry. Every year we hold a forum, bringing prominent speakers to the University of Guelph to discuss issues in the Canadian Restaurant Industry.
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