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The skeleton of a fish is seen in the Navarro lagoon, which dried up due to the climate phenomenon La Nina, in Navarro in Argentina's Buenos Aires province on Dec. 5, 2022.
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Comment: La Niña’s long strange run

La Niña is finishing an extremely unusual three-year cycle – here’s how it affected weather around the world

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It was anchovy fishermen in Peru who first noticed and named El Niño events in the tropical Pacific hundreds of years ago. Their catches would fluctuate and the largest declines were seen near Christmas, when the ocean was at its warmest. They called it El Niño de Navidad, the boy of Christmas. With a larger
‘When farmers view themselves as commodity producers, there can be a tendency to think that the responsibility for their products ends upon delivery to the processing facility or the elevator. That is not the case.’ – Cam Dahl.
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Comment: We are food producers

Inside agriculture they might be commodities, but at the grocery store, what you produce is food

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Farmers are often referred to as “producers” – wheat producers, canola producers, cattle producers, hog producers, etc. While these references are logically rooted in the commodities grown on individual farms, they don’t provide a bridge to consumers filling their grocery carts. If we change the way we look at what farmers do, away from these
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Comment: Teaching old farmers new tricks

Becoming a delegate with Manitoba Crop Alliance gave me a whole new perspective

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The more I learn, the more I realize how much more I have to learn. I have been a delegate on Manitoba Crop Alliance’s (MCA) wheat and barley crop committee since 2020. One of the first things I learned about MCA was how wrong my assumptions had been – about what getting involved would be
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Comment: Taxes out, subsidies in

Australia and the U.S. are passing major climate bills – without taxing carbon

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At last, there’s action on climate change. The United States recently passed its largest climate bill ever and Australia is set to usher a 43 per cent emissions target into law, although the Greens will try to amend the bill so the climate impacts of new gas and coal projects are considered. Good news, right?
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Comment: What’s really behind higher milk prices?

According to leaked data, the answer isn’t empirical evidence

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Every year, the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC), a branch of the federal government, hires external consultants to assess the cost of producing milk on the farm. The CDC has never released any data about costing and has recommended farm milk price increases in most years, eventually impacting retail prices and Canadian families. Since February, dairy
COVID-19 and Elections Canada related signs seen inside Edmonton Expo Center in Edmonton, Alta.
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Comment: Your voice matters this election – let it be heard

Vote. This is your chance to ensure agriculture’s voice is heard in government

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Political campaigners have an adage, “public policy is set by those who show up.” We are in the middle of a federal election and now is the best time for individual producers to influence policy. Now is the time for you to actively participate in the political process and let your voice be heard, and
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Comment: Is it worth voting Conservative again?

ELECTION | There are perils in being seen as a too-reliable voting bloc

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Producers on the Prairies are expected to once again support the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). Polling suggests the CPC vote share could be on the rise, and there is a chance the party sweeps all the seats in Saskatchewan again – this time with a higher share of the vote than in 2019. We’ve
Comment: COVID-19 shows Canada’s need for an agri-food labour strategy
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Comment: COVID-19 shows Canada’s need for an agri-food labour strategy

In a complex economic sector, many solutions are needed for this intractable problem

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Canadian agriculture has had problems with insufficient and unstable labour supply for decades. In 2019, primary agriculture brought in over 60,000 temporary foreign workers and still had over 16,000 vacancies. In 2017, on-farm agriculture had the highest job vacancy rate of any industry at 5.4 per cent. The current labour gap is 63,000 employees and
Comment: Public investment needs to return public good
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Comment: Public investment needs to return public good

Change is coming and farmers need to get ahead of the curve

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If the ill-tempered and deadly first half of 2020 had been a first-calf heifer on the dairy farm of my youth, my father would have ticketed it for the freezer a month ago. His yardstick of heifer potential was short: If she lived up to her breeding, she was a “keeper”; if she “put more

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