Editorial & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

VIDEO: Editor’s Take: Off the rails

By Gord Gilmour April 13, 2022

We live in an era of the primacy of markets. In particular, regulation of markets has been deemed as undesirable, a long-term trend that began with neo-conservatism in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But Canadians are increasingly being hit in the face with examples where greater regulation is becoming a necessary evil. From price-fixing

John Deere plans to have its autonomous 8R tractor at dealers in 2022.

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(Guest) Editorial: Choices in autonomy grow

By John Greig March 31, 2022

John Deere’s recent announcement that it will be selling autonomous 8R tractors for tillage this year elicited a not-surprising reaction from farmers. It was a mixed response, as is often the case for new technology, especially technology that might significantly change something they’ve been doing and, in many cases, liked doing, for generations. This isn’t

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Editorial: The world of unknowns

By Gord Gilmour March 24, 2022

A few years back, the world made a lot of fun of the late Donald Rumsfeld, formerly the defence secretary in the George W. Bush administration, over his comments about the war in Iraq. His statement, albeit delivered in tortured syntax that fired up the emerging mockery machine was, essentially: There are things we know.

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(Guest) Editor’s take: Marketing versus educating

By Kristy Nudds March 17, 2022

It’s annual meeting season, and some of the highlights for me are the updates on marketing efforts and consumer outreach. I’ve attended numerous annual meetings, and I’m amazed at the exciting and creative approaches. Highlighting the farmer or farmers who produce agricultural products has been the focus of many campaigns in the last decade. Educating

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Editor’s Take: On rent-seeking

By Gord Gilmour March 10, 2022

If you’ve already read Allan Dawson’s story featured on the front page of our Mar. 10 issue of the Co-operator, there’s a fairly high likelihood you’re feeling a bit sour. In it he details the work done by agricultural economist Ryan Cardwell on the topic of ‘rent-seeking’ behaviour generally, and how farmers are particularly good

Rescuers work at a residential building damaged by recent shelling, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Chernihiv, Ukraine March 3, 2022.

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Editor’s Take: Winds of war

By Gord Gilmour March 3, 2022

As I write this editorial Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, is under attack by Russian troops, as Russian leader Vladimir Putin attempts to assert a new world order… one that happens to look a lot like the old world order. The former KGB agent-turned politician and head of the crony-capitalism oligarchy that replaced the Soviet Union

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Editor’s Take: Managing short supply

By Gord Gilmour February 24, 2022

Early on in the pandemic I recall standing in line in the cold outside Costco, waiting for my turn to get into the store. As I waited, more or less patiently, I noticed several hastily made signs on printer paper that lined the crowd control fences — or perhaps ‘human corral’ might be a more

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Editorial: Farm face of protest unhelpful

By Laura Rance-Unger February 17, 2022

Like many Canadians watching the pandemic protests unfold across the country, it’s taken me some time to sort out how I feel about it all. Everyone loves a parade. No one likes the pandemic restrictions. We’d all like to be done with COVID-19. The question is, restrictions or not, whether it’s done with us. As

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Editor’s Take: The countdown on the next farm policy review begins

By Gord Gilmour February 10, 2022

The next national agricultural policy framework will take effect April 1, 2023. That gives the federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers just over a year to make the new rules that will govern countless aspects of your business’s financial life. That’s not much time to get them right. One of the biggest bones of contention

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Editor’s Take: Eastbound and down

By Gord Gilmour February 3, 2022

There’s been a lot of noise generated around a trucker convoy to Ottawa protesting vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers. As our Alexis Stockford reports in our Feb. 3 issue, some of the supporters included Manitoba farmers. And some of the province’s farm groups expressed some muted support for the goals, especially when framed as keeping

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VIDEO: Editor’s Take: Off the rails

(Guest) Editorial: Choices in autonomy grow

Editorial: The world of unknowns

Editor’s Take: On rent-seeking

Editor’s Take: Winds of war

Editor’s Take: Managing short supply

Editorial: Farm face of protest unhelpful

Editor’s Take: The countdown on the next farm policy review begins

Editor’s Take: Eastbound and down

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