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‘There’s little doubt that climate can erode a farmer’s wellbeing, be it emotional or economic, but others argue that policy uncertainty around the climate file adds another layer of stress.’ – Gord Gilmour.
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Editor’s Take: Self-care key before the spring rush

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From my viewpoint, this last stretch before spring can be the dreariest time of year. A constant freeze-thaw cycle has rendered our landscape an icy mess, slightly less attractive than the ice planet Hoth from the Star Wars film franchise. It’s also about as safe to walk on as a concrete floor covered in ball
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Editorial: In defence of 4-H

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I was a 4-H kid as I was growing up. I didn’t do beef club, although my family’s farm did run beef cattle. All my friends did activity club, so I did the same.  The environment was one of continually expanding exploration and skill acquisition, not surprising for an organization whose motto is “learn to
Farmer at Dawn
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Editorial: The yearly farm safety reality check

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Farming is a dangerous job. It’s a sentence most of us have heard so often that it doesn’t resonate the way it probably should. The sector involves a lot of heavy equipment, powerful livestock and in many cases a farmer working alone, far from help and in areas with patchy cell service if something goes
Editorial: Farming in the age of Asimov
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Editorial: Farming in the age of Asimov

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The first time I picked up a book by Isaac Asimov, I was in high school and the book was “Foundation.” More recently, I got around to another Asimov classic, “I, Robot.”  If your only experience with Asimov’s AI-centred opus is the 2004 movie, forget everything you know. The book has less violent robot revolution
It makes sense that a group of industries already bitten, who now sees the same issues on the horizon, is loath to show up for another round.
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Editorial: Ghosts of CETA

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Canada’s cattle sectors aren’t the only ones up in arms about U.K. acceptance into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.  On Feb. 12, the pork industry also weighed in. It is vehemently against the idea of British participation in a trade agreement that, so far, has been pretty good to Canada’s meat-producing sectors.
Editorial: Fertile ground needed
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Editorial: Fertile ground needed

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Canada is the latest nation to join a multinational group looking to advance efficient and novel fertilizers. It’s not a shocking development for a federal government that’s made climate policy one of its signature initiatives.  The stated goals of the group are downright ‘mom and apple pie’, as it looks to support applied research that
Editor’s Take: In praise of boredom
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Editor’s Take: In praise of boredom

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It would be fair to describe the tone of farmers at this year’s Ag Days as ‘cautiously optimistic.’ Crop prices are down — but not out. And input prices are a mixed bag, according to analysts speaking at the event. They’re expecting urea prices to stay strong over the winter and into spring, but ammonia
Ranchers reliant on Crown land know exactly what leaseholders were promised and when they were promised it.
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Editorial: Much ado about nothing

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The Co-operator’s late 2023 interview with Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn included a carrot for forage Crown land leaseholders. He said there would be new announcements in the New Year. On Jan. 2, a press release arrived in media inboxes. Crown land changes were now in effect, it said, including that: Producers “felt abandoned by
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Comment: Non-AI doggerel

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The tree is took down and the sugar-free shortbread’s all eaten.That means that it’s time for the next New Year’s greetin’,And in doggerel (bad verses) to take a moment’s reflection,Plus make fearless predictions of farming’s future direction. Now given their druthers, farmers have usually thunk,That the ideal would be land in one contiguous chunk.But last
“Farmers today can produce two times as much with the same level of inputs,” says a new FCC report.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Production, productivity and climate change

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A tantalizing report from Farm Credit Canada recently estimated the riches that would flow if the productivity growth of the decades leading into the 21st century were to return. “Assuming the Canadian agriculture industry returns productivity growth to the plateau we recorded two decades ago, this would add as much as $30 billion in net

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