Editorial & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

Editorial: Food and the four-leaf clover

By Alexis Stockford May 5, 2023

Today’s teenagers aren’t eating particularly well, and it’s not just those in cities. In fact, according to a recently released study of Grade 9 students by the University of Manitoba, rural kids might be eating worse in terms of things like sugars and saturated fats. And when it came to veggies or certain major nutrients,

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Editor’s Take: Slipping one in

By Gord Gilmour April 27, 2023

Many years ago, I saw a cartoon that caused my cynical inner journalist to chuckle. A man in a suit sat behind a massive desk, handing a paper to a lackey, saying “Take this, Henderson, and hide it from the public.” I laughed because even a wet-behind-the-ears cub reporter in the early 1990s could recognize

Manitoba’s elk industry has yet to record a CWD case in farmed animals, and the industry wants to keep it that way.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Now or never on chronic wasting disease

By Alexis Stockford April 20, 2023

The first deer was standing, unconcerned, on the edge of the highway near Holland as I drove past. It was the middle of the day. Then there were a few more chowing down on the remains of a bale and a veritable conga line of them along the railway near Treherne. The next day, in

The contents of a recent report on a looming retirement crunch in Canadian farmers really isn’t a huge surprise.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Durable solutions needed for human capital crunch

By Gord Gilmour April 13, 2023

When Canada has a systemic problem, all too often our national reaction is to slap a Band-Aid of some kind on it and call it a day. Nursing shortage in Manitoba? Jump on a plane and poach every available nurse from the Philippines. Doctor shortage? Hoover up every available international doctor from South Africa, India

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(Guest) Editorial: The eternal promise of the flooded mind

By Alexis Stockford March 30, 2023

There are two quotes bookending reporter Geralyn Wichers’ front-page story in the March 28 issue of the Co-operator on the bogged-down Lake St. Martin and Lake Manitoba outlet channels. Outside of the fact there’s seven years between them and one comes from the Progressive Conservatives and the other from the NDP, there’s not a big

A sapper of the State Emergency Service inspects an area for mines and unexploded shells in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on March 21, 2023.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: A season of uncertainty looms

By Gord Gilmour March 23, 2023

The world is once again facing a growing season in the Northern Hemisphere that’s shrouded in uncertainty. A little uncertainty is nothing new, but over the past few years, things have reached a whole new level. As you’ll read on pages 6 and 7 of this issue, few unknowns are larger than what’s going to

If Canadians want improved environmental outcomes at the farm level, farmers need to be compensated accordingly.

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Editor’s Take: The window opens

By Gord Gilmour March 16, 2023

It’s been a long-held dream of many in the agriculture sector to see farmers paid for the environmental goods and services they provide to society. The argument goes that farmers can do great things for the environment. But as Bill Campbell, past president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), has often noted, farmers can’t be

The thorny issue of Crown lands is shaping up to be an election issue for rural voters later this fall.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Crown lands an election issue

By Gord Gilmour March 9, 2023

If the goal of changes to Manitoba’s Crown land rules was to get more young producers into the cattle business, it’s been an unequivocal failure. And that was one of the major justifications offered for the 2019 changes that shortened leases, did away with unit transfers, raised rents and added an auction component to win

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: A nuanced take on ‘Food Freedom’

By Gord Gilmour February 16, 2023

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture took a different approach this month when it marked its annual ‘Food Freedom Day’ on February 9, just one day later than last year. Ordinarily, it’s a straightforward affair where they note that by this date, the average Canadian has earned enough to pay their food bill for the year.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Woe Canada

By Gord Gilmour February 10, 2023

Canada faces many issues internationally that are going to determine the success or failure of its agri-food sector. Is enough being done to address them? That was the subject of a recent summit in Ottawa that John Greig attended on behalf of Glacier FarmMedia. One of the latest and most-hyped endeavours in the agriculture sector

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Editorial

Editorial: Food and the four-leaf clover

Editor’s Take: Slipping one in

Editorial: Now or never on chronic wasting disease

Editor’s Take: Durable solutions needed for human capital crunch

(Guest) Editorial: The eternal promise of the flooded mind

Editor’s Take: A season of uncertainty looms

Editor’s Take: The window opens

Editor’s Take: Crown lands an election issue

Editor’s Take: A nuanced take on ‘Food Freedom’

Editor’s Take: Woe Canada

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