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Mike von Massow

Sep 8, 2022
2 min

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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Farm Numbers in Canada Continue to Fall but the Trend is Slowing

Mike von Massow

Jul 12, 2022
3 min

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...

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Revisiting Canadian Beef Processing: Is Everything Back to Normal?

Mike von Massow

Dec 17, 2020
3 min

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...

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Barriers to Precision Agriculture Adoption Across Canada and in the United States

Mike von Massow

Aug 7, 2020
3 min

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...

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Mike von Massow

May 1, 2020
1 min

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...

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Mike von Massow

Apr 30, 2020
1 min

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...

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Molly Gallant

Oct 24, 2019
4 min

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,...

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Shaping the Canadian food waste conversation

Molly Gallant

Sep 6, 2019
3 min

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...

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Nicholas Bannon

Aug 29, 2019
3 min

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...

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African swine fever in China affects Canadian pork export market

Mike von Massow

Aug 28, 2019
4 min

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...

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Nicholas Bannon

Aug 20, 2019
3 min

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...

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Nicholas Bannon

Aug 12, 2019
3 min

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...

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Mitchell Gingerich

Aug 2, 2019
4 min

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...

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China and trade: easy to criticize but not much Canada can do

Mike von Massow

Jul 5, 2019
2 min

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,...

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Is Canada’s food policy biting off more than it can chew?

Mike von Massow

Jun 24, 2019
2 min

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...

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Are farm numbers declining across Ontario?

Nicholas Bannon

Jun 3, 2019
3 min

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...

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The weaponization of trade will hurt Canadian ag and food industry

Mike von Massow

Apr 1, 2019
3 min

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...

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The fight against food waste should take place in the kitchen

Molly Gallant

Mar 25, 2019
4 min

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...

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Are all of the eggs in your basket the same?

Molly Gallant

Mar 11, 2019
4 min

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...

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Vegan virtue signalling complicates trend interpretation

Mike von Massow

Mar 4, 2019
2 min

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...

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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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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