Editorial & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

Editor’s Take: The crops groups merger vote nears

By Gord Gilmour December 5, 2019

Are you ready for the Manitoba Crop Alliance vote? The MCA is the name a new merger of crops groups is poised to take on if their amalgamation proposal passes votes to be held at this winter’s CropConnect conference. That meeting, slated for February 11-13 in Winnipeg, will see the annual meetings of the Manitoba

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Lack of leadership on Food Safety Act leads to limbo

By Gord Gilmour November 28, 2019

On June 11, 2009 Gary Doer was contemplating his pending exit from provincial politics, Barack Obama had less than six months under his belt as president of the United States and Stephen Harper was still nearly two years away from receiving his first majority mandate. In popular culture, Jason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor” was burning

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Editor’s Take: Ignoring the rural electoral base

By Gord Gilmour November 21, 2019

Just weeks after the last provincial election campaign wrapped up, it might seem too soon to talk about the next one. But in the context of discontent in Manitoba’s farm country, it’s a topic worth considering. The governing Progressive Conservatives benefited, as they typically do, from strong support in rural Manitoba. In fact, agro-Manitoba voted

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Editor’s Take: Crime waves

By Gord Gilmour November 14, 2019

One day, while working in downtown Winnipeg, I left my job for a dentist appointment just a few blocks away. In a rush to get there on time, I cut through a parking lot and was headed down a short alley to the next street. I was just walking along, minding my own business, when

If government bodies want agriculture and food to help drive economic growth, they need to be prepared to ride out the cyclical nature of the profession right alongside farmers.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Farmers need better financial supports

By Gord Gilmour November 7, 2019

One thing the designers of farm programs at the governmental level can’t seem to wrap their heads around is the myriad of ways things can go wrong out in the countryside. They like to slot things into neat boxes and sketch out a few likely scenarios, and design the programs around them and call it

The key issue in the seed royalty debate appears to be that farmers are very reluctant to any system that costs them more money.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Seed royalties just one option

By Gord Gilmour October 31, 2019

Ron DePauw wouldn’t get a second look from most Canadians. But his worth to the country is measured in the billions, yes, with a “B.” Born in rural Saskatchewan and raised on a Treherne-area farm, the now-retired DePauw is one of the most prolific wheat breeders in the world. He was involved in the research

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

Editor’s Take: Picking food fights

By Gord Gilmour October 17, 2019

Milk, in particular Canada’s supply management system, has always been a preoccupation of our southern neighbours. If you want to make someone in the U.S. agriculture sector go apoplectic in short order, just bring up the subject. To quote the current occupant of the White House in a tweet launched in the midst of USMCA

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Should the province sell its agricultural lands?

By Gord Gilmour October 10, 2019

In 1932 my grandfather moved north from the drought-stricken plains of southern Saskatchewan, to the province’s parkland region. Chasing rain and a better life, he first homesteaded a rocky quarter, turned it back in and the next year bought an irregularly shaped piece of property, totalling 204 acres, bounded by two creeks, from the Hudson

About three dozen animal activists trespassed who illegally entered a barn at the Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony near Fort MacLeod, Alta., on Sept. 2 in what they called a “Liberation Lockdown.”

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: A camera in every (barn) corner

By Gord Gilmour October 3, 2019

Sir Paul McCartney, of pop music fame, once famously observed, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.” Built into this statement is the assumption that most people are too squeamish to look what they eat in the eye, and there is a grain of truth there. Most people prefer to only meet their

When farmers of all stripes do their job well, consumers have the option to safely choose between meat or plant-based sources of protein.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Is fake meat just a flash in the pan?

By Gord Gilmour September 26, 2019

How much real interest is there in fake meat? By that I mean not the sort of interest you see in the equity markets where share prices have been driven through the roof because some investor doesn’t want to miss the next Microsoft or Amazon. Or the latest media hype, of which there’s been no

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Editor’s Take: The crops groups merger vote nears

Editor’s Take: Lack of leadership on Food Safety Act leads to limbo

Editor’s Take: Ignoring the rural electoral base

Editor’s Take: Crime waves

Editor’s Take: Farmers need better financial supports

Editor’s Take: Seed royalties just one option

Editor’s Take: Picking food fights

Editor’s Take: Should the province sell its agricultural lands?

Editor’s Take: A camera in every (barn) corner

Editor’s Take: Is fake meat just a flash in the pan?

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