POLICY Why would a farm group dedicated to farmers support a report undermining farmers?
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has a long and proud history of supporting the pillars of Canadian farm policy. The NFU has over the years supported good public policy such as crop insurance, the Crow Rate, orderly marketing, supply management, the Canadian Wheat Board, public plant breeding, and the PFRA, which included the tree nursery
Comment: NFU stance on business risk management programs mystifying
Why would a farm group dedicated to farmers support a report undermining farmers?
Comment: Biofuels are a fake climate change solution
There are too many costs of all types to make biofuels a solution to our problems
Biofuels in Canada cannot be produced without a subsidy or a government order called a mandate. The Canadian and various provincial governments are again increasing biofuel mandates as a simple solution to the serious climate change crisis we face. But are biofuels the solution politicians claim? Biofuels sound good and with mandates they cost government
Letters – for Nov. 17, 2011
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