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Oilseeds, Opinion

It’s A Winner — Trust Us

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It’s no secret that the seed business has undergone dramatic changes over the past two decades. But two graphic examples have surfaced recently that illustrate some unforeseen consequences of those changes. The first, cancellation of the annual seed show at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair, is unlikely to have any noticeable effect on how farmers
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Put Age Verification On Hold

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Our national mandatory program for age verification for cattle needs to be put on hold until there is careful study and round table discussions with farmers. Governments need to talk to actual farmers, not merely to organizations that claim to represent farmers and to the so-called industry leaders. The federal Standing Committee on Agriculture needs
Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 15, 2010

Disastrous economic development The warning previews are being posted, as John Oliver speaks out on global energy, with food and water shortages on the horizon. (March 25 Manitoba Co-operator story by Daniel Winters.) We read that more than one billion people go hungry every single day and have little or no clean water to drink,
Opinion

Manitoba’s messages mixed on manure, sewage

Regarding “Don’t reject the ejector” (Letters, Co-operator, March 11, page 5): if sewage ejectors are to be banned in rural Manitoba because of threats to human health and harmful effects to the environment and water, as professed by Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship, then there are much bigger issues that have to be addressed by
Opinion

Markets Within Reach For Farms’ Pent-Up Energy

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Manitoba farmers could become major players in the energy marketplace with the right programs. No, that doesn’t mean finding oil under the farm – though that never hurts. It means tapping into markets for the energy products we already produce. As farmers, we are really just managing the landscape to use the sun, water and
Opinion

Middlemen Win, Farmers Lose

Ten years ago, I was billed about $8 per ton at my local wooden elevator. The wood-ens have now been replaced with efficient high-throughput concrete elevators with 100-car load-outs. You will be better off, I was told; it will be more efficient. Now I pay $14 per ton at the concretes. Ten years ago, a
Opinion

Feeling Full, Satisfying Hunger

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The food, beverage and supplement weight management product market in the U. S. last year was $3.64 billion and growing fast. For the industry, beyond the traditional claims such as low fat (food minus), a burgeoning new field involves a shift to satiety claims (food plus). Foods marketed for satiety have enhanced levels of fibre
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

The Russian Bear Is Back

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The former Soviet Union may not have been a model of economic efficiency, but there was one thing that it did very well, and that was import grain. In the grain trade heyday of the 1980s, the Soviets would import up to 50 million tonnes a year and distribute it far
Opinion

Farmers Are In This Together

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It might be time to start paying attention. Consumers are beginning to use their dollar power to drive agriculture and we farmers don’t know where that will take us. Ihave no argument with the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council. My goal is always for farmers to work together to find innovative solutions as the food world
Opinion

Be Bold, Not Balanced

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B y most accounts, the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council’s 2010 annual meeting was well attended, full of new members and democratically run. Those are all signs of a healthy organization – at least on the surface. So why the hard feelings? A former director went home bitter after the nominating committee did not renew her

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