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Welcome to our brand new, soon-to-be regular Q&A feature: Ask an egg farmer! For our first edition, we’re chatting with Stephanie Nanne, a seventh generation egg farmer in Perth, Ontario. Stephanie grew up around egg farming, and her family helped instill in her a strong work ethic and values that she embraces day-to-day with her […]

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. – Adrienne Clarkson Canada is turning 150 years young and it has got Canadians thinking about what makes our country so great. For us, part of our greatness is our complexity. This country is home […]

Covers of magazines are always promising to make healthy living easier, promising you can “Lose 5 pounds with this one easy trick!” Most of these promises are simply far-fetched. However, it turns out some healthier eating tricks can actually be that easy: researchers at Purdue University have discovered that simply adding eggs to colourful salads […]

For Marysol Foucault, the egg is the ultimate comfort food. That’s one reason why eggs feature prominently on the menu of Edgar, her acclaimed pocket-sized restaurant in Gatineau, Québec. Edgar focuses on breakfast, brunch, pastries and take-out. There’s one egg dish every weekday, and poached eggs are a star of the weekend brunch. Foucault says […]

Guelph researcher says understanding animal behaviour is critical The simplest way to describe what Tina Widowski does is to say she’s trying to understand what makes for better housing systems for laying hens. Except that improving housing for hens is no simple matter. It involves study of the animals’ behaviour, as well as an understanding […]

Whether you enjoy them hard-cooked, poached or over-easy, eggs are pretty simple to cook. But getting those eggs from the farm to your table within less than a week? That takes behind-the-scenes effort and coordination across the industry’s entire supply chain. The Canadian egg industry, like most industries, is made up of several independent yet […]

OTTAWA, February 17, 2016 – Egg Farmers of Canada and Chicken Farmers of Canada are proud to be the Visionary Sponsors of Forum for Young Canadians, a program that supports an aspiring generation of Canadian leaders. Every year, Forum for Young Canadians welcomes hundreds of students from across the country, who are seeking a unique experience to learn […]

Emily Bland St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador Age: 21 Though Emily Bland grew up on an egg farm, her dream was to make a career as far away from it as possible. “I swore I’d never go back!” she says. Instead, she imagined herself wearing a power suit and working in the business world. Now […]

With the Pan Am Games kicking off in Toronto this week, it’s an opportune time to think of our Canadian athletes and all of the hard work and dedication they put into their sport and achieving their goals. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview Canadian professional alpine skier Valérie Grenier recently. […]

Bruce Muirhead says the true value of supply management often goes unappreciated. Muirhead is an academic who has made a career of studying agriculture and trade policies. Recently, he has turned his attention to the supply management system used for egg production in Canada, among other commodities. Not only does the system keep the cost […]