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CFA Leading Push For National Food Strategy


The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is one of the leading groups in search of a National Food Strategy. Federation Vice-President Mark Wales says intensive work on such a strategy began at the annual general meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in February.

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A working group from the CFA is leading the National Food Strategy project with participants from other organisations and representatives from the value chain and various government agencies.

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.