It appears that the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association’s last-ditch attempt to make itself sound as if it knew something about the world grain trade as per its Aug.
Opinion
WCWGA Needs To Do Its Homework
Like A Light Bulb
It may sound strange, and it is not meant to be disrespectful, but when I think of Jack Layton, I think of a light bulb. It has nothing to do with how his shiny bald head sparkled under the studio lights. Layton was like one of those incandescent bulbs that shines brighter than ever, just
If You Drain Them, Floods Will Come
Given how saturated the soil was last fall, coupled with record snowfall throughout the Canadian Prairies, it’s no surprise to witness the unprecedented flooding that has occurred along the Assiniboine River and its tributaries this year. However, this situation is much worse because of wetland drainage across the Prairies. Wetland drainage increases the probability of
Wheat Growers Outlines Plan For A New CWB
The new CWB is to be reconstituted, without any monopoly or regulatory powers, effective Aug. 1, 2012 and assume all assets, liabilities and contractual commitments of the existing CWB. The new CWB Act is to provide for the issuance of share capital and for continuation of the CWB as a company under the Canada Business
Letters – for Sep. 1, 2011
As the District 2 CWB director, I attended the three so-called producer information meetings set up by the CWB in Medicine Hat, Camrose and Falher. Having read some of the media reports of the meetings in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, I knew that these meetings were all about politics, and an all-or-nothing message from the CWB
Unearthing The Potential
As I looked down at the thick mat of rotting vegetation PhD student Caroline Halde was holding up for me to peruse, it was hard to fathom – at first – why anyone but the most devoted of researchers would find this exciting. I was at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm
New Quebec Policy Emphasizes Food Over Farming
Quebec’s recently released draft for a new agri-food policy, “Giving a Taste of Quebec,” doesn’t include all the ingredients that many in the sector had expected. Pierre Corbeil, the Quebec minister of agriculture, fisheries and food, unveiled the long awaited parliamentary “green paper” (draft policy) on June 7, 2011. The document featured three principal components
Joe Farmer Goes To Washington (Part 2)
Ihave to admit I didn’t pay much attention to Dan Glickman when he was U.S. secretary of agriculture for the Clinton administration in the late 90’s, but I did have a chance to listen to his keynote address at the Soil and Water Conservation Society’s (SWCS) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. What struck me was
Letters – for Aug. 25, 2011
Proper tire inflation crucial to performance I have spent a number of years teaching advanced driving techniques to groups such as police, ambulance and the general public, and I take exception to Jim Kerr’s statement that one not “inflate the tires to the pressure shown on the tire sidewall.” To say this is to indicate
Government Should Walk In The Shoes Of Lake Manitoba Flood Victims
There is a definite sense of anger and betrayal as we reside on our farm inside an eight-food earthen dike, living daily with the stench of the dying foliage from our tame hay crops instead of the sweet smell of curing hay. This stench circles us on all four sides. We do not live on