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We need to move beyond passive efforts, such as unrestricted hunting, that have been shown to disperse wild pigs and make the problem worse. – Cam Dahl
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Comment: Wild pigs an alien invasion

It’s time for co-ordinated, targeted eradication efforts on wild pigs

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We have been invaded by aliens. No, not green creatures from Area 51, but by plants and animals that don’t belong here. Take, for example, the common dandelion, which is not native to North America. European settlers brought dandelions here in the mid-1600s to enhance their gardens. Zebra mussels are another example; they are not
That’s the problem with the “industrial mind” in today’s agriculture: It floats along on a rising sea of taxpayer money and unaccounted costs to a place where few profit but everyone pays one way or another.
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Comment: The actual costs of the ‘industrial mind’

Human ‘cleverness’ can’t outweigh nature, at least not for long

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In an essay in his new book, Hogs Are Up, Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute near Salina, Kansas, and a shrewd observer of U.S. agriculture, revisits a speech he gave in Coon Rapids, Iowa, in August 2009 to mark the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous visit to the Roswell Garst farm. During
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Comment: Could dangerous new COVID variants evolve in pets and farm animals? 

So far there appears to be little evidence of elevated risk, but it bears keeping a close watch

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People have been panicking about COVID-19 in animals since the very start of the pandemic. There’s now plenty of evidence that SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 – can cross from humans into other animals. This is known as spillback. The virus is capable of infecting a range of species, from hamsters to gorillas.
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Comment: The rise of the ‘grow’cer

Retailers are bringing agriculture right to the store floor

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Canadians have started to notice that grocers are starting to sell plants in miniature greenhouses. Gardens on rooftops, vertical farms close to stores — some are even selling gardening equipment to gardeners shopping for food. The farm is essentially merging with the retail food spaces we roam as consumers. Quite interesting. We are slowly witnessing
According to Statistics Canada, nearly a third of Canadian children are overweight or obese.
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Comment: The kids are not alright

Marketing unhealthy food to kids is taking advantage of their inability to make rational decisions

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Most would agree that protecting children should be our country’s utmost priority. Protecting children from unhealthy food products and fast-food chains has been the subject of many conversations. Ads for sugary food products geared towards children have been contested for years and some countries have opted to ban them, one way or another. The United Kingdom,
The agriculture industry must ensure that all international workers know that they have a right to get a COVID-19 vaccine and how they can access the distribution process.
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Comment: Farmers support worker vaccination

Doing everything we can to protect these essential workers is the right thing to do

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Despite some reports, producers in Manitoba are not blocking international workers from getting vaccinated. We value them and the contributions they make to our farms and communities. It is an understatement to suggest that keeping international workers healthy and safe is critical to the success of Manitoba’s agricultural industry. As a beekeeper, I rely on
Ransomware attacks have increased by nearly 500 per cent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Comment: JBS ransomware attack highlights need for new internet

The growing problem points to the need for a new, more secure system

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Make no mistake: We are also in the midst of a digital pandemic of ransomware attacks. The recent attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS USA — the world’s largest meat processor — underscore the growing brazen nature of organized, deliberate attacks on increasingly significant targets, and our chronic inability to defend against them. What we
The company is simply pocketing the lion’s share of the price increase as profit and blaming it on higher worker pay.
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Comment: Worker wages are not the cause of higher food prices

Big companies complain about worker wages but the data doesn’t support them

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After my first year at the Big U, I returned to the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth for a summer of work. The first task, however, was to ask my father to double my hourly pay from 50 cents an hour, the amount I’d been paid through high school, to $1 per hour
Bill 37 sets out a solid framework for economic growth by creating a mechanism for ensuring that development decisions are timely and consistent across Manitoba.
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Comment: Fair process, fewer appeals with Bill 37

The Manitoba Municipal Board will provide clarity and transparency

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There has been much discussion around Bill 37, The Planning Amendment and City of Winnipeg Charter Amendment Act, in recent weeks. This legislation sets out a solid framework for economic growth by creating a mechanism for ensuring that development decisions are timely and consistent across Manitoba. Critics have suggested this legislation will erode the democratic

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