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Glance and find out...

• how bar codes in cows' ears help keep our food supply safe
• how manure can be handled in an environmentally friendly way
• how pumpkin farmers are diversifying into agri-tourism
• why leafcutter bees are so useful—even though they produce no honey
• why vegetable production is shifting away from traditional products
• what's behind the success of the Canadian wine and grape industry
• how new technology is used to improve production of milk and crops
• what a farm family looked like in 1871
• how to get car fuel and plastics from corn, and super silk from goat's milk.

Canadian Agriculture at a Glance explores these and many other developments and trends in Canadian agriculture. You'll want to return to its pages time and time again.

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What you need to know before you Glance
by Tom Vradenburg, Statistics Canada

First you take an ecumene...
by Gaye Ward, Statistics Canada

They're tilling that field behind the mall
by Jennie Wang, Statistics Canada

Little bees, big potential
by Cyd Rainville, Statistics Canada

Living with the farm next door
by Martin Beaulieu, Statistics Canada

It's waste and a valuable resource too
by Jennie Wang, Statistics Canada

Dairy and beef—contrasting industries
by Leon Laborde, Statistics Canada

A tag in every ear
by Barbara Keith, Statistics Canada

Watering our Prairie farms
by Amanda Elliott, Statistics Canada

Bud the Spud moves west
by Dr. Stan Blade, Tricia McAllister and Lori Delanoy,
Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development

From Concord to Chardonnay: Canada’s grape transformation
by Claire Bradshaw, Statistics Canada

What’s growing under glass?
by Ainsley Sparkes and Elizabeth Irving, Statistics Canada

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