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Home > Life and Society > What's Happening to the Family Farm? |
 What's Happening to the Family Farm? |
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Whether they raise wheat, peaches, beef or potatoes, the Canadians who run our family farms have sometimes struggled to keep pace with the demand for cheap, abundant food. Threats to the family farm have ranged from the high cost of land and crippling interest rates to corporate competition and encroaching cities. Some farmers have adapted and thrived, but for others the strain has proven too much. CBC Archives looks at the evolving family farm. |
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 Three generations of the Huffman family raise peaches, potatoes and corn on their Essex County farm. (TV; runs 9:46) |
 Will a government program keep more farmers on the land — or create a generation of modern-day sharecroppers? (TV; runs 2:43) |
 A government report says McCain's is exploiting potato growers and creating unfair competition with its corporate farm. (Radio; runs 13:00) |
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 Farm activist Allen Wilford organizes a penny auction and goes on a hunger strike to protest banks foreclosing on family farms. (TV; runs 7:39) |
 The all-too-real prospect of losing the farm leads to stress and, for some, thoughts of suicide. (TV; runs 5:30) |
 Small-scale farmers give up fertilizer and pesticide to try their hands at organic farming. (TV; runs 12:47) |
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 Terra Nova vegetable growers say they're losing valuable farmland to residential development. (Radio; runs 7:30) |
 An urban advocate says federal subsidies to Canadian farmers outweigh their economic output. (Radio; runs 8:35) |
 An Alberta family thrives on the original homestead by focusing on the business of farming. (TV; runs 5:38) |
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