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Improving access to broadband connectivity is fundamental to the future of rural Canada.
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Editorial: Rural connectivity gap widening

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For some reason, the release of yet another report highlighting the deepening disconnect between urban and rural Canada over internet connectivity made me think of telephones. Growing up in rural Manitoba, where our telephone “party line” was shared by six large families, connectivity was often a topic of discussion. Sometimes the line was in use
It can be tempting to eliminate wet areas in your field such as the one seen here, but one researcher equates it to short-term gain for long-term pain.
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Editor’s Take: A slight depression

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It might be time to consider the business case for the humble slough, pothole and other low-lying areas on your land. Typically they’re viewed as an annoyance at best, and a waste at worst. Larger equipment has made draining them more tempting over the years and there’s always the understandable desire to maximize acreage by
Railway tracks
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Editor’s Take: Rubber, meet road

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In recent years the country’s two major railways have all but dislocated their metaphorical shoulders patting themselves on the back. They’re rightly very proud of record grain movement year after year, and have pointed to major investments in infrastructure, equipment and personnel as key to that success. And to be clear, both CN and CP
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Editor’s Take: A closer mirror

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A few years back I stumbled across the work of the late Barbara Tuchman, a historian who wrote bestselling books about everything from the events leading to the First World War to the folly of governments pursuing policies that were actually contrary to their own interests. The book that initially captured my interest was A
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Editor’s Take: A deal’s a deal

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Let’s play ‘what if?’ What if you signed a contract with your local grain company for $15 a bushel? And suddenly a few months later, prices had fallen to just $10 a bushel. Would you be rushing down to the elevator to assure the local agent that it was OK, and they didn’t need to
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Editor’s Take: Simple solutions

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The agriculture industry is — rightly — proud of its track record of adoption of cutting-edge technology and techniques. From GPS positioning and auto steer to data collection and prescription soil mapping, information is the lifeblood of the farm of today and tomorrow. Which is why it’s so perplexing that relatively few farmers avail themselves
Editor’s Take: On vaccine efficacy
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Editor’s Take: On vaccine efficacy

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One of the key metrics that crop protection products are evaluated on is one known as ‘efficacy.’ You’re quite right if you think that’s a $5 word for ‘effectiveness.’ Whether or not a crop protection product does what it says it will do is a critical part of its evaluation by federal regulators. If it
It’s clear there’s going to be a big crop insurance payout this year, even if nobody’s exactly sure how big.
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Editor’s Take: A tale of two programs

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Crop and beef farmers across the province have faced the same challenging times this year but when it comes to being backstopped by support programs, there are some sharp differences. Early reports suggest many grain farmers are seeing yields in the 60 per cent of normal neighbourhood on their cereals. Some have, of course, done
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Editor’s Take: The political winds are blowing

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For those who care about such things, it’s been an eventful few days in politics, both provincially and federally. Here in Manitoba, Brian Pallister, the only Manitoba premier in many years to have grown up on a farm, confirmed speculation that he won’t be leading the Progressive Conservatives into the next campaign. And federally, the

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