Letters & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

Letters: Winds of change turn against pork industry

By Vicki Burns July 4, 2023

Manitoba hog producers would do well to pay very careful attention to California’s Prop 12 and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding it. Consumers around the world are letting their views on animal welfare be known, both through the power of their buying habits and through their support of issues like Prop 12. Contrary

Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Pork should lead with values

By Ruth Pryzner June 21, 2023

In response to the May 2 Co-operator article, “Values lead on public trust”: As Amy te Plate-Church, presenter at the Manitoba Pork Council’s most recent annual meeting said, “lead with values” in the debate about industrial hog methods of raising pigs. Let’s do that. The crux of this value debate lies in the reality of

Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: More hogs, more problems

By John Fefchak June 12, 2023

In response to the May 26 Co-operator article “Meat industry hits hard times”. Without the benefit of taxpayers’ dollars (read: government support), the Manitoba hog industry (not farming) would have collapsed many years ago. Born and raised on a farm, I appreciate the proper raising and care of swine. Pigs produced in a factory-type situation

Comment, Letters

Letters: Burgers are not ‘junk food’

By Ian Thorleifson May 19, 2023

In response to the Manitoba Co-operator article, ‘Rural kids fall short on nutrition,’ I have a few questions for the writers and editors of the May 4 edition: 1. How could anyone describe a meal that includes a modest amount of healthy bread, a proper serving of healthy beef and several fresh vegetables as “junk

Letters

Letters: Water, our most precious finite resource

By John Fefchak May 2, 2023

In response to the Co-operator’s article “Change in water culture necessary, experts say,” published April 4. As a matter of fact, water usage estimates in swine production were introduced at the 2007 hearings by the Manitoba CEC (Clean Environment Commission). Also, a study by DGH Engineering put the estimated water use by type of operation

Letters, Op/Ed, Other

Letters: Crown land changes botched

By Ron Kostyshyn April 6, 2023

For the past seven years, ranchers and producers have seen their way of life undermined by the PC government. The changes brought in under Brian Pallister and his minister of agriculture, Blaine Pedersen, to the Crown Land Lease system were done without consultation or regard for the impact it would have on Manitoba producers. Ranchers

Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Crown land leaseholders deserve vote

By Ian L. Robson February 28, 2023

Since 2016 Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) and Manitoba Ministers of Agriculture have badly served 1,700 Manitoba Agricultural Crown Land Lease holders and destroyed the points-based unit transfer system. This is a scandal. It is a scandal that was disguised as ‘red tape cutting’ and driven by the erroneous idea that agricultural Crown land access for

Comment, Letters

Letters: Reverse senseless Crown land policies

By Dale Myhre February 3, 2023

It is sad and disheartening to see how the Manitoba government has treated the small cattle ranchers who are the stewards of our grasslands. They forced most of the First Nations ranchers out of business with the Portage Diversion flood of 2011. The people and the land have never recovered. In the last three years,

Letters

Letters: Pots and kettles

By John Fefchak November 14, 2022

So, Premier Heather Stefanson is “exceedingly concerned for Manitoba when it comes to the federal government imposing things in areas of provincial jurisdiction.” She “hasn’t ruled out borrowing a page from the new Alberta premier to protect Manitoba’s jurisdiction and interests from interference by the federal government.” (Brandon Sun, Oct. 13) However, she had no

Comment, Letters

Letters: Time to redefine ‘progress’

By John Fefchak August 9, 2022

I am a first-generation Canadian, born and raised on a Manitoba farm in the 1930s. I did not take up farming as my livelihood, however I did learn to recognize that farm life can be extremely rewarding in so many different ways. I also learned to appreciate and realize that water and the environment were

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Letters

Letters: Winds of change turn against pork industry

Letters: Pork should lead with values

Letters: More hogs, more problems

Letters: Burgers are not ‘junk food’

Letters: Water, our most precious finite resource

Letters: Crown land changes botched

Letters: Crown land leaseholders deserve vote

Letters: Reverse senseless Crown land policies

Letters: Pots and kettles

Letters: Time to redefine ‘progress’

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