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Editorial: Grain business consolidation and concentration

By Laura Rance-Unger May 13, 2024

Press releases are often notable because of what they don’t say. Then again, sometimes they unintentionally speak volumes. For example, consider the official statements coming from the Glencore team related to their role in the continuing consolidation and concentration of the grain handling business in Canada. In 2012, when Glencore announced it was acquiring Viterra,[...]

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Proposition 12 ‘insulting,’ but economic effects muted

By Laura Rance-Unger January 19, 2024

Newly imposed animal welfare regulations in California will have little economic impact on the North American hog sector, an agricultural economist with the University of California Davis predicts. “California consumers like me are going to pay, I don’t know, five or 10 per cent more for pork that’s covered by the policy, which means a[...]

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Editorial: Prop 12 pork sector proposition a fascinating case study

By Laura Rance-Unger April 26, 2024

California’s Proposition 12, which sets minimum space standards for pregnant sows that produce pork destined for sale in California, has become a fascinating case study of voter-consumer behaviours as data emerges on the effects. More importantly, it’s a case study with ominous overtones for Canadian farmers as they watch the coveted U.S. market splinter along[...]

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Editorial: Production, productivity and climate change

By Laura Rance-Unger December 21, 2023

A tantalizing report from Farm Credit Canada recently estimated the riches that would flow if the productivity growth of the decades leading into the 21st century were to return. “Assuming the Canadian agriculture industry returns productivity growth to the plateau we recorded two decades ago, this would add as much as $30 billion in net[...]

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Editorial: Division or unity on water?

By Laura Rance-Unger November 6, 2023

Wab Kinew wouldn’t be the first Manitoba premier who came into office vowing to represent all Manitobans or to preach the politics of unity. However, he may be looking at a steeper slope. He comes into office as post-pandemic discord has created deep societal polarization and faces a quagmire of intersecting crises, including the escalating[...]

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Opinion: U.S. meat labelling changes could disrupt live animal trade

By Laura Rance-Unger April 21, 2023

As the late Yogi Berra once said, it’s “déjà vu all over again” as Canadian livestock producers nervously monitor new developments south of the border that threaten to unravel the tightly knit North American meat trade. The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service is seeking comment until May 12 on a plan to tighten its[...]

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Global food system productive but not sustainable

By Laura Rance-Unger December 22, 2022

One of the world’s leading advocates for global food security had a sobering message for the movers and shakers of Canada’s agricultural sector who attended the Nov. 30 GrowCanada conference. “The reality is, the food system is productive, but it’s not sustainable, folks,” Ertharin Cousin, told her audience of 500 industry and farm organization executives.[...]

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Net zero could be change catalyst

By Laura Rance-Unger March 24, 2023

As keynote presentations go, the kick-off speaker’s at a conference on the sustainability of Canadian agriculture hosted March 7 by the University of Manitoba was a bit of a downer — at least initially. Henry Janzen, a career Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientist with who now serves as an honorary research associate with the department’s[...]

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Food security hurt by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Laura Rance-Unger November 10, 2022

The only clarity to emerge in the eight months that have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine is that there is no end in sight. Everyone can agree this war has profound implications for grain markets and global food security. However, our understanding of how fundamentally this conflict is changing the geopolitics of food is just[...]

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Editorial: Gritty winds of change

By Laura Rance-Unger April 28, 2022

One of the downsides of spring, aside from its slowness to arrive, is the wind. Invariably before crops get established, we get a series of major wind events that cause soil to move, shearing off the newly emerging plants, and filling ditches with dirt, the air with fine particles and our teeth with grit. These[...]

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Editorial: Grain business consolidation and concentration

Proposition 12 ‘insulting,’ but economic effects muted

Editorial: Prop 12 pork sector proposition a fascinating case study

Editorial: Production, productivity and climate change

Editorial: Division or unity on water?

Opinion: U.S. meat labelling changes could disrupt live animal trade

Editorial: Global food system productive but not sustainable

Opinion: Net zero could be change catalyst

Editorial: Food security hurt by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Editorial: Gritty winds of change

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