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Hogs, Opinion

Standard practices due for review

Does anybody else aside from me see the irony of Laura Rance’s excellent editorial on the humane treatment of animals and in the same issue the rather angry letter directed at animal welfare activists regarding the castration of pigs without benefit of anesthetic? I believe that producers are underestimating the level of knowledge activists have
Opinion

Science Loses In Raw Milk Debate

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While most healthy people will recover in a week or so from small exposure to the pathogens that can be present in raw milk, for people with weakened immune systems such as the elderly, children and people with cancer, organ transplants or HIV/AIDS, exposure is dangerous, even fatal. There is a broad scientific consensus that
Opinion, Other livestock

A Serious Lapse In Judgment

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The facts in the case are not in dispute. All that’s open to question is whether the judge assigned to the case will impose a jail sentence instead of a hefty fine. A Steinbach-area trucker pled guilty to charges under the Health of Animals Act after Emerson border guards in Nov. 2007 discovered 14 badly
Opinion

So What? Now What?

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Managing the risk in your business is becoming increasingly important. Typically, people tend to associate risk with negative outcomes. But there can be an upside to risk as well, risk that correlates to opportunity. For some, the past couple of years have realized perhaps even windfall-like profits with an expectation that, due to a shift
Opinion

Battling World Hunger By Increasing Global Production?

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U. S. farmers began to believe that they had a responsibility to increase production and exports so that the hungry of the world could be fed. For some time now, we have focused our attention on the twin issues of production and exports of major crops as a way of examining the export-oriented policies that
Oilseeds, Opinion

Coalition’s Efforts In Bad Taste, Literally

I really got irate over reading the article in the March 25 edition of the Manitoba Boycott not the way to address flax issue After reading the article regarding the recent KAP meeting at Portage la Prairie April 8, I was somewhat concerned about the resolution regarding a boycott of products from the EU27 as
Oilseeds, Opinion

European boycott counterproductive

KAP’s call for a boycott of European goods in response the EU’s zero tolerance of GM contamination in flax in the (April 15 Manitoba Co-operator) is an ill-considered response to a ban which we have long known about, and which is our problem and not theirs. In calling for a boycott, we deny Europe’s right
Cereals, Hogs, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 22, 2010

Customers will determine industry trends Regarding the story “Gestation stalls could become Canada-U. S. trade issue,” Manitoba Co-operator April 15, Manitoba Pork Council chairman Karl Kynoch said his industry is not against loose housing for sows but change must be based on science, not human emotion and that MPC is going to make sure that
Oilseeds, Opinion

Mixing Math And Science

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This quote attributed to Albert Einstein underscores the risks of mixing math with science. The two go hand in hand for practical analytical purposes, but whereas one relies on absolute proof through repeatable patterns, the other is based on accumulating empirical evidence. In other words, in order for a mathematical equation to be accepted as
Opinion

Peak Does Damage Control

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Peak of the Market did some serious damage control late last week when it negotiated a so-called “cease fire” in what had come to be known as this province’s Potato Wars. The marketing agency for Manitoba’s potato and root crops was in an untenable position – under attack by a vocal coalition of locavores dedicated

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