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Editor’s Take: Apocalypse soon-ish?

By Gord Gilmour January 26, 2023

It’s the job of the commentator to be a bit provocative and to make people think. Geopolitical economist Peter Zeihan, who gave a keynote address at last week’s Ag Days, certainly accomplished that. Pulling many threads together, from the war in Ukraine and Russia’s historic borders, past the sclerotic regime in Beijing incapable of adapting,

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Editor’s Take: Coming together

By Gord Gilmour January 20, 2023

It’s been an interesting few years. Since March of 2020, it seems in some ways like decades have passed. Perhaps that’s the way it goes when you’re forced to spend too much time alone at home, in your own company. But every now and then a milestone passes, and I realize the whole experience of

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(Guest) Editorial: A review of two-two

By John Morriss January 6, 2023

As longtime readers know, what we do each year first isReview the one that’s just past, but in doggerel (bad verses)A look back to review things is usually a good practice gainfulBut this year it’s one that feels kind of painfulUps and downs for farmers here seem only a piffleCompared to those in Ukraine dodging

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Editorial: Global food system productive but not sustainable

By Laura Rance-Unger December 22, 2022

One of the world’s leading advocates for global food security had a sobering message for the movers and shakers of Canada’s agricultural sector who attended the Nov. 30 GrowCanada conference. “The reality is, the food system is productive, but it’s not sustainable, folks,” Ertharin Cousin, told her audience of 500 industry and farm organization executives.

A study from the Canadian Agriculture Human Resource Council shows that agriculture wages lack compared to other sectors such as construction, manufacturing, and transportation.

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Editor’s Take: It’s a workers’ market out there

By Gord Gilmour December 15, 2022

I want to buy some wheat. Hard red spring. I’m willing to pay $7 a bushel. Wait, you mean to tell me it’s worth $11.74 a bushel these days, according to the latest figures from the province? But I can’t afford that! It’s more than I want to pay! I’ll never turn a profit at

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(Guest) Editorial: Will the country keep coming to the city?

By Kristy Nudds December 8, 2022

Earlier this month the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (RAWF) took place in Toronto, celebrating its 100th year. That’s an incredible achievement. The RAWF shares this achievement with a multitude of agricultural societies throughout Canada, some of whom have been hosting fairs almost as long as Canada has been a country. In Manitoba the only other

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Editor’s Take: It’s about time

By Gord Gilmour December 1, 2022

As a transplanted Saskatchewanian – now with a Manitoba tenure longer than my time in the ‘old country’ – I’ve adapted. I even cheer for the Bombers now, rather than the Riders. But there’s one difference I’ve never embraced. That’s the spring-forward, fall-back nonsense that is the twice-annual time change. I’ve always agreed with the

The pork industry is highly integrated throughout North America, so having a requirement in one state will have a ripple effect throughout the value chain.

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Guest editorial: California could set the rules on raising pigs

By Kristy Nudds November 24, 2022

The biggest pork market in the U.S. could no longer be accessible to Canadian producers if a ballot initiative known as Proposition 12 becomes law. Proposition 12 was part of the state of California’s general election ballot in 2018. Also known as the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, it aims to establish new minimum

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Editor’s Take: Many tools

By Gord Gilmour November 17, 2022

Everything changed for agriculture after the Second World War. As the world went to war, the sector was largely driven by horsepower. By war’s end, it was poised for rapid mechanization and the Green Revolution. which brought about increased use of fertilizer and herbicides, all products of wartime research efforts. The widespread use of nitrogen

According to the World Bank, for every one percentage point rise in food costs, 100 million people are pushed back into poverty.

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Editorial: Food security hurt by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Laura Rance-Unger November 10, 2022

The only clarity to emerge in the eight months that have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine is that there is no end in sight. Everyone can agree this war has profound implications for grain markets and global food security. However, our understanding of how fundamentally this conflict is changing the geopolitics of food is just

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Editor’s Take: Apocalypse soon-ish?

Editor’s Take: Coming together

(Guest) Editorial: A review of two-two

Editorial: Global food system productive but not sustainable

Editor’s Take: It’s a workers’ market out there

(Guest) Editorial: Will the country keep coming to the city?

Editor’s Take: It’s about time

Guest editorial: California could set the rules on raising pigs

Editor’s Take: Many tools

Editorial: Food security hurt by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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