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Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Manitoba farmers falling through the cracks

By Gord Gilmour September 19, 2019

The past couple of months have been frustrating ones for the staff of this publication. For us in the agriculture sector the election was particularly ill-timed as it encompassed much of a particularly challenging growing season. We’ve run into more than a few examples of gun-shy provincial civil servants, who have been extremely reluctant to

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Yellow dogs

By Gord Gilmour September 12, 2019

Forty-seven years. Under a plan put forward by the Progressive Conservatives in the waning days of the provincial election, that’s how long it will have taken farmers to get a fairer education tax system. It was a foundational issue in 1984 when the province’s general farm organization, the Keystone Agricultural Producers, came into being. To

Columns, Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Productivity potential

By Gord Gilmour September 6, 2019

A recent agriculture report from the Royal Bank of Canada paints a picture of a sector with big opportunities and big challenges. Farmer 4.0: How the coming skills revolution can transform agriculture is all-in on the concept of farms thriving in the digital age. It paints a picture of autonomous equipment, sensor-driven agronomy and other

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

Editorial: Farmer support complex issue

By Gord Gilmour August 30, 2019

A recent call from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture for more support for farmers affected by trade issues raises some interesting questions. The CFA was responding to the announcement of $1.7 billion in direct payments to dairy producers over eight years, compensation for opening a portion of the dairy market to international competition under a

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: No shortage of politics for Manitobans

By Gord Gilmour August 22, 2019

Over the coming months Manitobans have not one, but two elections in front of them. Sept. 10 the province goes to the polls, and the federal election is scheduled for October 21 under the fixed-date election law. Most of us are probably bracing ourselves for some pretty nasty campaigning, as the tone of politics has

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Truck licensing snafu needs fixing

By Gord Gilmour August 15, 2019

Not just anyone should be able to jump behind the wheel of a semi-trailer and go rolling along a public road. After all, these rigs can carry staggering amounts of weight — for example, a Super-B can carry 42 tonnes of grain in a single load. To put that into perspective, it’s the equivalent of

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

(Former) Editor’s Take: Cover crop funding decision unfair to cattle producers

By John Morriss August 8, 2019

High-tech agriculture has been hogging all the attention lately. Mainstream media run stories starting with “It isn’t Old Macdonald’s farm anymore,” describing drones, satellites and tractor cabs fitted with computer screens. Farm media regularly feature stories on the latest precision agriculture innovations and how farmers can figure out how to use all that computer data

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Canada’s farm labour gap needs holistic solution

By Gord Gilmour August 1, 2019

Farm labour, or rather the shortage of it, is getting much attention lately. In recent weeks, there’s been a pilot program announced to provide temporary foreign workers (TFWs) with a path to permanent residency. There’s also been a study that suggests farms are going high tech, automating and mechanizing at an even faster rate —

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

(Former) Editor’s Take: Record exports are not a problem

By John Morriss July 25, 2019

Canadian farm organizations have been making the case for better business risk management programs, and with margins getting tighter, they may be justified. But farm leaders should ask for the right reasons, and they shouldn’t include market access problems or being caught in a trade war, especially when export demand has never been better. Hardly

Columns, Editorial, Farmit Manitoba

Editor’s Take: Canada at a crossroads

By Gord Gilmour July 19, 2019

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Canada remains either a leader or laggard in the realm of support for its agriculture sector, depending on how one approaches the problem. A free market idealist who favours letting the invisible hand sort it all out might think less support to producers is a

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Editor’s Take: Manitoba farmers falling through the cracks

Editor’s Take: Yellow dogs

Editor’s Take: Productivity potential

Editorial: Farmer support complex issue

Editor’s Take: Truck licensing snafu needs fixing

(Former) Editor’s Take: Cover crop funding decision unfair to cattle producers

Editor’s Take: Canada’s farm labour gap needs holistic solution

(Former) Editor’s Take: Record exports are not a problem

Editor’s Take: Canada at a crossroads

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