Risky business: debt in modern agriculture

When it comes agriculture, there’s much to celebrate these days in new trade agreements. But there are also hard questions about the future of the sector Canada is counting upon to be a champion in growing trade.
Canadian farmers are facing serious problems—like extraordinary debt loads, mental health woes and unusually bad harvests in the Prairies—that are encroaching on the sector as a whole.
Canadian farmers are facing serious problems—like extraordinary debt loads, mental health woes and unusually bad harvests in the Prairies—that are encroaching on the sector as a whole. While some of these problems are as old as the industry itself, there are recent shifts that may have far-reach...

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