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“Fertilizer Wars” Throw Spotlight On Three CEOs

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Mike Wilson, Steve Wilson and Mike Bennett are patient men. Embroiled in a nine-month three-way takeover battle, the chief executives of fertilizer companies Agrium Inc., CF Industries Holdings Inc., and Terra Industries Inc. have stayed in the headlines even as a recession and falling grain prices pushed the stocks of their companies off their 2008
Livestock, Opinion

Environmental farm plan process like a lottery — but less fun

The first round of successful BMPs (Best Management Practices) applications is over and the few lucky winners have received their notices – as have the many, many unlucky losers. The current Environmental Farm Plan program, in many respects, resembles a lottery. Buy a ticket and take your chances. In the southwest, we had 296 applications
Cereals, Opinion

Ritz Must Stand Up For Farmers’ Marketing Systems At WTO

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The upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Geneva are targeting farmers’ marketing agencies – including supply-management and the Canadian Wheat Board single desk. I predict that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz will return home from the current round of negotiations announcing that these so-called “state trading enterprises” are no longer legal under WTO trade rules
Opinion

Agricultural Policy For Developing Countries: Back To Basics

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While many in the U. S. see single-desk marketing boards controlled by farmers as problematic, one needs to consider the nature of the markets into which farmers sell their products. Agricultural policy in developing countries has been an ongoing concern since the end of the Second World War and the dismantling of colonial European empires.
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Farm building codes could save lives

In the Nov. 5 story “Farm Building Codes to Vary With Operations,” Peter Wiebe, the New Bothwell broiler producer quoted in your farm building code article is simply missing the point by stating that “bringing farm buildings under the code could be a crack in the door for animal welfare activists to eventually get even
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Not The Time To Neglect Agriculture

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The 34th North American European Union Agricultural Conference, a major forum for discussion on solutions to the world economic crisis affecting farmers, was hosted by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture at Niagara Falls, Ontario this fall. This year, there were representatives from 73 farm organizations from 19 different countries. It is widely agreed that agricultural
Opinion

Inheriting Their Contributions

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Our office basement contains a treasure of bound copies of the farm publications that preceded some we have today. The Nor-West Farmer, which later became the Grain Growers’ Guide and then the Country Guide, dates to 1882. Occasional trips into these archives can be hazardous to productivity, as it’s easy to
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

The Fundamental Challenge For The Beef Industry

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Excerpts from an opinion published in the Oct. 12 issue of Alberta Farmer Express. The Beef Industry Alliance (BIA) is made up of Alberta Cattle Feeders Association, Western Stock Growers Association, Canadian Legacy Partners, Border Beef and the Alberta Feeders Association. It says several other organizations across Western Canada are expected to join soon. In
Opinion

Globalization Creates A Race To The Bottom

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Th e Wo r l d Tr a d e Organization’s (WTO) Public Forum, which happens every two years, was held in Geneva at the end of September. There were few farm groups represented at the forum, but the CFA and some of its members did attend. Walking into the plenary session can be likened
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

It’s Your Turn

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This week’s announcement of federal loans and another Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council investment to support Keystone Processors’ bid to become Manitoba’s largest federally inspected meat processor isn’t enough to turn the tide for this province’s struggling beef producers. But it’s a step in the right direction. The move by this company along with two smaller

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