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Comment: Workers make Christmas happen

Our holiday season is filled with food, thanks for farm and food workers

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It is the holiday season, a time to enjoy dinners with family and friends and time to be thankful and proud of our world-class Canadian food system, providing us with abundant, healthy, safe and affordable food. Canadian farmers and processors, with the help of a skilled agricultural workforce, feed 37 million Canadians. We are also
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As the year closes, some troubling numbers

Wall Street, the 'Trump bump' and the near future for commodity markets

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If it’s all about the numbers, a journalist’s stock-in-trade, what are the numbers telling this journalist as 2016 fades and 2017 rises? First, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Plowprint Report, issued Nov. 16, “Since 2009, 53 million acres of grasslands — an area the size of Kansas — have been converted to cropland
Both farmed and wild elk, like these photographed near Glenboro, and other cervids such as deer, are frequently blamed for disease outbreaks in cattle herds despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Comment: Elk not responsible for TB outbreak

Too often farmed animals and wildlife are blamed for outbreaks, despite evidence to the contrary

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In recent months, several cattle from herds in Alberta and Saskatchewan have tested positive for exposure to tuberculosis. The index animal — a beef cow — was identified at slaughter at a U.S. processing plant. Since then several more suspects have been identified by skin testing. Over 22,000 cattle are affected by quarantines. A common
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Dwayne Andreas, the FBI, and me

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Dwayne Orville Andreas, the pocket-sized hurricane that built a sleepy soybean processor, Archer Daniels Midland Co., into a global giant, died Wednesday, Nov. 16, in a Decatur, Ill. hospital. He was 98. Andreas’s career was as long and profitable as it was remarkable and jaded. Just last week someone again asked me if it was
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Don’t derail trade deals

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It was a good harvest this fall, with many American farmers seeing record yields. But the blessing of a good harvest can also be a burden if you don’t have enough customers for your crops. With the lowest commodity prices on corn and soybeans in more than a decade, farmers need access to more markets
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Dwayne Andreas founded the ‘Supermarket to the World’

Former ADM chairman used his connections to build the world’s largest grain and oilseed processor

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Last week’s passing of former Archer Daniels Midland CEO Dwayne Andreas at age 98 serves to remind of his remarkable success and his influence on the world grain trade, including here in Canada. In 1993, Andreas was in Winnipeg to receive an International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from the University of Manitoba. A few journalists got
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Preparing for Trump’s food world

Many Trump policies could have wide-ranging impact on food and agriculture around the globe

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After the shock comes the reality of understanding what a Trump presidency and a Republican-dominated Congress will mean to all of us. Over the last two years, policies on immigration, trade and security have dominated the campaign. Not much was said about agriculture or food policies. By the looks of it though, a new approach
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No easy answers to greenhouse gas emissions

We’ll all have to be part of the solution or we’ll be part of the problem

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The solution to pollution is dilution is an old saying, but unfortunately there is a limit to its truth. For well over a century we have been mining, drilling and burning fossil fuels as if Mother Nature intended us to. One gallon of gas can give the equivalent of 600-man hours of labour. Coal and
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‘You’re wrong’ is the wrong message

Trying to dictate what products consumers should get or what 
food companies should supply them is surely a losing tactic


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When most of us hear the words, “Have I got a great deal for you!” we grab our wallets because experience suggests any forthcoming deal won’t be great. Similarly, when someone says, “Here’s the straight talk,” our baloney meters redline because we know the coming talk will be about as straight as a hound’s hind
It might look like a wild sunflower, but it’s actually a plant used in Cuba as a cover crop in between the rows on avocado and banana plantations, according to agronomist Scott Day.
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Cuba looks to adopt conservation agriculture

A recent UN-sponsored summit invited farmers and agriculture professionals to share their adoption experience

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I recently had the opportunity to spend some time in Cuba, along with 20 other visiting farmers, scientists and agronomists, meeting with 80 Cuban agriculture experts and officials. The meetings were made possible by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), that was hosting the first-ever Conservation Agriculture Summit for Cuba, on Oct. 16-22

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