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Editorial: COOL fight not over yet

By Laura Rance-Unger June 1, 2015

The WTO has made its final-final decision in Canada’s favour on U.S. labelling laws. It now appears that U.S. legislators in the House of Representatives will vote next month on a bill to repeal it. But Canada’s COOL fight isn’t over. Support for repealing the legislation is less secure from the U.S. Senate where the[...]

Beef cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Beef production and the view from Alberta

By Laura Rance-Unger June 22, 2015

The view is different out here — and it’s not just the scenery. Granted, Co-operator staff had the rare opportunity last week to visit with ranchers in and around Calgary that were specifically selected by their colleagues at Alberta Farmer Express specifically because they do things a little differently. Nevertheless, it was an eye-opener listening[...]

Crops, Opinion

Editorial: The buzz around bees, neonics and the 'big picture'

By Laura Rance-Unger June 15, 2015

In our business, getting the facts right and keeping them in context is a constant challenge. Such is the case with the materials circulated as part of the Buzzing Gardens campaign rolled out last week by Bees Matter, an industry group formed to present information on bee health. It offers free flower seeds to gardeners[...]

Crops, Opinion

Editorial: What’s it going to take to stop soil erosion?

By Laura Rance-Unger May 4, 2015

You could have mistaken Co-operator reporter Lorraine Stevenson for a coal miner, coated as she was with black dirt, after she ventured out across southern Manitoba during those 70- to 90-kilometre-per-hour winds April 15. But for the modern farm equipment and steel granaries in the background, her photographs of airborne and drifting soil could have[...]

Crops

The gift of water 28 years later

By Laura Rance-Unger March 27, 2015

The old man’s eyes grew teary when he was asked to remember what it was like before the water came. “There was a drought,” Ahmed Sahle Ahmed said through an interpreter as he sat on a floor mat in the family’s home. “We were having problems, we had no food.” That was in the early[...]

Opinion

Editorial: The information age and agriculture’s footprint

By Laura Rance-Unger November 24, 2014

The latest global supply-and-demand outlooks make it a little difficult to get too excited over worries the world will run out of food any time soon. World grain prices are weakening under what are characterized as burdensome supplies of staple commodity crops. Most of the pundits are now predicting we’re in for a prolonged period[...]

Opinion

Editorial: Why do women in agriculture go largely unrecognized?

By Laura Rance-Unger April 20, 2015

Two realities collided in our news release inbox last week. First, we received a release from the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) announcing a research project that will examine and address critical barriers to advancement that women face in the agricultural industry. “The purpose of this initiative is to engage women and stakeholders within[...]

Crops, International news

Irrigation project means year-round food, and more

By Laura Rance-Unger April 7, 2015

Vegetables were once a rarity in this community located three hours northeast of Asosa in the remote Benishangul-Gumuz region of Western Ethiopia. If onions, potatoes and tomatoes were available at all, they had travelled a long distance and been on at least three trucks. They were expensive, often prohibitively so, and poor quality. Two of[...]

Crops, International news

Making life a little less hard for women

By Laura Rance-Unger April 8, 2015

If there’s a list of “worst places in the world to be born a woman,” Benishangul-Gumuz would rank near the top. This is a place that remains steeped in cultural taboos and superstitions, many of them targeted at women. The sanitized bureaucratic terminology is “harmful traditional practices (HTPs),” the origins of which no one seems[...]

Crops, International news

Can conservation agriculture save Africa’s soils?

By Laura Rance-Unger March 13, 2015

It was the end of a very long day. We had travelled to remote areas on bad roads, walked barefoot across a flooding creek and hiked nearly an hour both ways to reach one of the three farmers we were scheduled to visit. We were on the trail of conservation agriculture (CA) success stories, and[...]

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures set record highs on scarce supplies

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CBOT Weekly: Projections, tensions pressure prices

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures set record highs on scarce supplies

U.S. grains: Soybean futures extend losses on favorable US weather, weak demand

CBOT Weekly: Projections, tensions pressure prices

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Editorial: COOL fight not over yet

Editorial: Beef production and the view from Alberta

Editorial: The buzz around bees, neonics and the 'big picture'

Editorial: What’s it going to take to stop soil erosion?

The gift of water 28 years later

Editorial: The information age and agriculture’s footprint

Editorial: Why do women in agriculture go largely unrecognized?

Irrigation project means year-round food, and more

Making life a little less hard for women

Can conservation agriculture save Africa’s soils?

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