Letters: ‘Be careful what you ask for’ on Crown lands

Crown land leaseholders are frustrated and financially drained, but industry lobbying is what set the ball rolling on the changes they blame

Many beef producers currently leasing Crown land are questioning whether their organization’s lobbying efforts, adopted by the previous Pallister government, have achieved any of the organization’s expectations of “advantaging young producers” and making the system “more flexible and transparent.” “Modernization” has relieved the current minister of agriculture of any responsibility for the reported annual increases

Letters: Hydro lines offer headaches

Letters: Hydro lines offer headaches

Manitoba Hydro is planning a 230-kV metal-structured power line to boost capacity in Portage la Prairie from the Dorsey Converter Station (near Rosser). The proposed completion date is 2025. We live on a 430-acre farm near Poplar Point and are very concerned about the ‘preferred route’ Manitoba Hydro has chosen. It will go over our


Letters: ISO a grain-grading poem

Hello readers. I’m hoping someone out there remembers the words to a poem about grain grading. I recall it recited by a long-time grain inspector once. The poem features a farmer discussing the grade of the wheat being delivered to an elevator with either an inspector or an elevator operator. We are hoping to include

Letters: Anti-meat rhetoric too simplistic

I read with dismay the recent article, “Meat and dairy gobble up subsidies worldwide,” in your op-ed section, January 20, 2022. Mr. Springmann states there that agricultural subsidies prop up a food system that is neither healthy nor sustainable referring specifically to those that go to the meat and dairy production sector. He advocates shifting



Letters: Crown land pain continues

Two years have gone by since the Manitoba Conservatives dropped a bombshell on the leaseholders of this province. How are things going out here? Really bad. Crown land lease bills came out, late last year, due Jan. 1. Most bills had tripled since 2019. Calf prices are pretty rough and input costs have gone through


Letters: Eichler should worry

Editor’s note: This letter was written before the announcement that the Manitoba government had shuffled its cabinet and had appointed Derek Johnson as Manitoba agriculture minister. Recently one of the Winnipeg radio stations had two climatologists as guests. They were discussing last summer’s drought and both mentioned Manitoba was the epicentre of the disaster. If a

Letters: Glyphosate review warranted

As noted in the article Glyphosate: treating science like a buffet (Manitoba Co-operator, Aug. 19), public pressure has caused Health Canada to delay a proposed increase to the amount of glyphosate allowed on legumes as a residue. The authors of the article then go on to suggest that the idea of glyphosate being dangerous (other



Letters: Invitation to discuss hog production accepted

I accept Cam Dahl’s invitation to join the conversation about modern agriculture, pig production and public trust. A couple of years ago I visited the Greenfield Maple Leaf hog facility. ML Greenfield takes sows that have been confined almost their entire lives in crates a little bigger than their bodies and “teaches” them how to