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Hog Losses Cut Wide Swath

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I was one of many who believed Saskatchewan, with its landlocked feed grain supply, was a logical place for the hog industry to prosper. Alarge number and individuals and businesses have lost money due to the demise of the Saskatchewan pork industry. Big Sky Farms, which is currently under creditor protection, is just the latest
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Potash “Oligopoly” May Crack In Longer Term

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“The oligopoly’s discipline has formed the backbone for the group’s valuation.” – DAHLMAN ROSE AND CO. REPORT Amajor U. S. investment bank following the potash sector sees a “ratcheting up” in the sector’s risk profile that may suggest a possible shift in market competition in the longer term. In a recent report on its longer-term
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Dawn Of The Decade Doggerel

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The holiday season is over, I hope you weren’t naughty Now it’s 2010, the end of the decade called “aughties” So it’s that time again, to which you all look ahead-fully Our year-end review in verse which rhymes dreadfully How time flies; I recall my first-ever annual bad-versification Cheered the end
Cereals, Opinion

Groundbreaking Moments In Global Agriculture

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Chicago | Reuters – Organized cultivation of food crops like wheat and barley began about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, what is now the Middle East. Great strides in agriculture have been made since through innovation, technology and genetics to help feed the world’s growing population. Despite this, however, more than
Opinion

Green Box Subsidies Can Also Distort Trade

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Efforts to overhaul agricultural support in rich countries are increasingly under challenge for failing to remove the unfair distortions in global trade that they purport to eliminate, a new study says. The study by agriculture and trade economists, published by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), questions the thrust of farm negotiations
Opinion

Letters – for Jan. 7, 2010

Bigger issues than climate change Pat Mooney, an Ottawa-based consultant and crop diversity enthusiast, addressed the NFU convention in Saskatoon in December, as reported by your Allan Dawson (“Crop diversity key to food security,” Co-operator, Dec. 10, page 16). In Mooney’s future, climate change will change everything in world agriculture, including what crops can actually
Opinion

Open Letter To Transport Minister

I am writing to express the profound consternation all farmers have with CN Rail’s announcement of the delisting, or closing, of numerous producer car loading sites in Western Canada. Producer car loading sites are an absolute necessity if farmers are going to be able to exercise their hard-fought right to load rail cars themselves. If
Opinion

A Holiday Wish

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One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live amongst peoples who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in the stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants. So begins the 2009 Massey Lecture series by Wade Davis,
Cereals, Opinion

CashPlus Controversy Has Little Traction

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Alittle over two years ago, the Canadian Wheat Board came up with a program called CashPlus for malting barley sales. Depending on who you listen to, it’s either been an absolute failure or a tremendous success. CashPlus was initiated at a time when the Conservative government was doing everything in its power to end the
Oilseeds, Opinion

Canola Election Process Flawed

With 2010 marking the 10-year anniversary of evermore farmers democratically helping an unwilling canola organization (MCGA) become more democratic, I am troubled by what was and was not reported in the December 17 “For Farmers Since 1925” issue covering the 2009 canola directors’ election. Vote123 was the sixth of six producer-initiated reforms. Which farmer-requested democratic

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