Article La Presse, September 7 2026
With each new tariff threat, the same call is made: buy Canadian. But you can’t rebuild a supply chain when a crisis hits. As we learned during the pandemic, food resilience is built years before it’s needed.
With each new tariff threat, the same call is made: buy Canadian. But you can’t rebuild a supply chain when a crisis hits. As we learned during the pandemic, food resilience is built years before it’s needed.
Images of heavy rains, flooded fields, historic droughts, and compromised harvests are multiplying. Every year, climate change reminds farmers of an increasingly costly reality: producing our food is becoming riskier.
Winter barley is a cereal crop that has been cultivated for centuries by European farmers. Recently, it has appeared in Canada, mainly in Ontario, on small plots. Since 2024, a group of farmers in the Montérégie region, guided by FoodBridge, has been conducting evaluation trials, with high hopes for this new cereal.
Dans le paysage agroalimentaire québécois, certaines entreprises jouent un rôle discret mais innovant dans nos chaînes d’approvisionnement…
Microbreweries want more Quebec-grown barley for their beers, but malting barley cultivation is rare in Quebec. Yet, this grain could help regenerate depleted soils. Producers are trying to reverse this trend.