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Fertilizer Pricing The Last Straw For Farmers

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“Well, if they (farmers) won’t pay our prices, we’ll grow the grain in China or India.” In the late winter of 1975, our family was having lunch in a Brandon, Manitoba restaurant. At the table next to ours, three fertilizer executives (two local and one from the U. S.) were discussing product pricing and bemoaning
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 1, 2009

MWI intervened to save home economics I read with interest, the item, “Home economics heads to the second century at U of M.” (Pg. 12, Sept. 17, 2009) Members of Manitoba Women’s Institute, an organization that has from the start been closely connected with the University of Manitoba and home economics, will also celebrate its
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Powerful Legacy

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World attention was focused last week to the passing of Norman Borlaug, the American scientist known as the Father of the Green Revolution and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his efforts to end world hunger. Borlaug died at the age of 95, still passionately committed to the role science can and
Cereals, Opinion

Saving Manitoba’s Rural Infrastructure

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It seems every time you turn around, rural Manitoba loses another piece of grain-handling or transportation infrastructure. Arborg saw the loss of the Viterra elevator in April, and as of Sept. 12, Canadian National Railway (CN) will no longer deliver producer cars to nine of its loading sites. The future of these sites is still
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Starvation In An Age Of Plenty

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Other countries’ domestic and foreign policies are often at the root of food disasters What is it about Africa? With its tropical climate and rich soil, it should be able to feed its teeming millions many times over. Yet too often Africa becomes a metaphor for famine and hunger. In 1984-85 a horrified world responded
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

The Most Serious Blunder Of Their Lives

I t seems that Manitoba farmers’ periodic attraction for U. S. wheat varieties of uncertain quality is not a recent phenomenon. This item appeared in the January 1886 issue of the Nor-West Farmer. The Northwestern Miller in a recent editorial says: it may be sad news to the London miller that a large number of
Opinion

These Grassroots Are All Astroturf

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In the long, expensive battle fought by U. S. farmers to make corn-based ethanol the premier alternative fuel in America, few Washington, D. C. influence-peddlers fought harder and spent more in opposition to it than the American Petroleum Institute. In fact, you name the biofuel issue and API and its fat cheque-book made it into
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‘Tis The Season — To Be Careful

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Iwas looking forward to my late-summer vacation with the same mix of anticipation and dread as my farmer friends look forward to harvest. There was a long list of outdoor jobs waiting for a few open days – provided the weather co-operated. Then, there was a plan to escape for a few days of camping
Opinion

Slung mud won’t patch program cracks

“This Conservative government puts farmers first in every decision we make.” This recent quote is from a letter by our agriculture minister, Gerry Ritz. It should be the way a government reacts to all decisions that concern agriculture in Canada. But a letter that I received from Mr. Ritz says something very different. When the
Cereals, Opinion

World Loses Its Leading Hunger Fighter

CIMMYT joins with members of the international development community to mourn the passing of Nobel Peace Laureate and renowned wheat scientist, Norman E. Borlaug, who died Sept. 12 at the age of 95 from complications from cancer, after an exemplary life dedicated to fighting hunger in developing countries. Borlaug worked as a CIMMYT wheat breeder

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