Editorial & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

Opinion: Keep balance in research funding

By John Greig August 28, 2023

Many ingredients went into the mix that resulted in the extraordinary success of agriculture in feeding a growing population. There’s the ability of farmers to constantly learn and increase their management skills. There are also vast improvements in technology – mechanical, digital and biological – that have come from researchers in both private companies and

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Emissions reduction needs a lifeline

By Gord Gilmour August 18, 2023

Nobody likes to change, especially not when they’re comfortable and things are going well. But that attitude can lead to complacency and inertia as the world passes by. This is the delicate balance that farmers are being asked to strike, with little evidence that it’s going to pay them dividends of any kind. The issue

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Cattle at a tipping point

By Alexis Stockford August 11, 2023

COVID-19 gave everyone a new archetype for the phrase, “may you live in interesting times.” Or, to sum up a few social media posts at the time, living through a historic event isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. That’s what it feels like when looking at the cattle sector. In Saskatchewan and Alberta, ranchers

Ford’s F-150 Lightning Lariat. (Ford.com)

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Editor’s Take: The rural problem with EVs

By Alexis Stockford July 21, 2023

Electric vehicles have a chicken-and-egg problem in rural Canada. Until there are enough charging sites that drivers feel no constraints on travel, electric vehicle purchase will be a hard sell. And until there are enough electric vehicles to create demand for those charging stations, there isn’t an urgent push to install them. When Western Canada’s

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Editor’s Take: Reconciliation roadmap

By Gord Gilmour July 13, 2023

I recently attended the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists annual conference. This year it was at Olds College in rural Alberta. As one might expect, agriculture in all its forms was front and centre. From autonomous sprayers to crop-scouting drones and everything in between, the future of agriculture on the Prairies was on full display.

'The success of Canada’s economy doesn’t truly rely on a few favoured firms that are able to capture regulators and curry favour with politicians.' – Gord Gilmour.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Checks and balances needed

By Gord Gilmour June 29, 2023

There’s a deepening need in Canada to increase oversight into competition in our economy, as evidenced by the latest food-related scandal. Canada Bread, an arm of the Mexican multinational Groupo Bimbo, just agreed to pay a $50-million settlement for its part in a bread price-fixing scheme. It was a conspiracy that ran for 14 to

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editorial: Carbon hype is not market reality

By Alexis Stockford June 26, 2023

It’s easy to understand why farmers want carbon credits to work. They want to be paid for the ecological goods and services they provide. On a more emotional level, it’s nice to be treated like heroes in times when farmers are sometimes painted as environmental villains. The public is increasingly focused on climate change and

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Booms and busts

By Gord Gilmour June 15, 2023

I’m just old enough to remember the farm bust of the 1980s. I was a teenager at the time, and like all good parents would, my folks tried to shield me from the worst of their worries and woes. But I grew up on a grain farm, and in that era, troubles were unavoidable all

The meat section in a grocery store in Selkirk, Man., on Jan. 30, 2022.

Editorial

The resiliency of ‘local’

By Alexis Stockford June 3, 2023

North America’s meatpackers are not having a good time. As our reporter Don Norman wrote in last week’s front-page story, there’s been a torrent of bad news from some of the biggest names in the business. In early May, Reuters reported that U.S.-based Tyson Foods, the world’s second-largest producer of beef, pork and chicken, had

A private member’s bill currently moving through a committee on international trade in the House of Commons aims to enshrine supply management in Canada and ensure it’s not undermined by future trade deals.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s take: Private member’s bill reveals deep divisions in agriculture

By Gord Gilmour May 11, 2023

Not long ago, the deepest division in Canadian agriculture — at least west of the Lakehead — was the Canadian Wheat Board. From protests to prison sentences for running the border with truckloads of wheat, it had enough drama to keep everyone interested. And perpetually outraged. On one side were those who favoured the monopoly

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Gene edited, PRRS resistant pig approved in Canada

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher

Editorial

Opinion: Keep balance in research funding

Editor’s Take: Emissions reduction needs a lifeline

Editorial: Cattle at a tipping point

Editor’s Take: The rural problem with EVs

Editor’s Take: Reconciliation roadmap

Editorial: Checks and balances needed

Editorial: Carbon hype is not market reality

Editor’s Take: Booms and busts

The resiliency of ‘local’

Editor’s take: Private member’s bill reveals deep divisions in agriculture

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