Ontario’s ag policy is shifting quietly—from chasing novelty to deploying infrastructure that actually works.

The question isn’t “what’s new?” It’s “what scales, holds under pressure, and delivers in the real world?”

That changes who wins, what gets funded, and what capabilities matter next.

#AgPolicy #Resilience

https://open.substack.com/pub/intravision/p/from-risk-narrative-to-infrastructure?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5bh5bl

Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint.

Of course, policies that would mitigate climate impact got stripped out by the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Good reporting by Floodlight

https://floodlightnews.org/corn-ethanol-clean-energy-vs-climate-costs/

#corn #AgPolicy #Climate #ClimateChange #GroundwaterPollution #biofuels #KingCorn #NitrousOxide #ethanol #nitrate #nitrogen #groundwater #NitrogenFertilizer #agriculture #lobbying #CorporateLobbying #OBBBA

Mass deportations could slash U.S. GDP by up to 6.8%—a $1.7 trillion hit. Rural counties that backed Trump would be hit hardest, losing critical immigrant labor in farming, construction & manufacturing. Labor gaps = higher costs, fewer jobs, and deeper economic decline.

Add tariffs to the mix—already raising costs & sparking retaliation—and these policies risk gutting rural economies. The same communities that voted for Trump are the ones most at risk.
#Immigration #Tariffs #RuralEconomy #LaborCrisis #AgPolicy #TrumpCountry #Economics #MastoPolitics #PolicyAnalysis #UndocumentedWorkers

Forever young? The crisis of generational renewal on Canada's farms

Darrin Qualman
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Annette Aurélie Desmarais
Sharada Srinivasan

#CanAg #FarmPolicy #AgriculturePolicy #AgPolicy #Farmers #YoungFarmers #FoodStudies #OpenAccessJournal #OpenScholarship
#FoodPolicy #OpenAccess

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/284