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Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

(Former) Editor’s Take: Cover crop funding decision unfair to cattle producers

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High-tech agriculture has been hogging all the attention lately. Mainstream media run stories starting with “It isn’t Old Macdonald’s farm anymore,” describing drones, satellites and tractor cabs fitted with computer screens. Farm media regularly feature stories on the latest precision agriculture innovations and how farmers can figure out how to use all that computer data
Conservative party leader Andrew Scheer's attempt to brand himself as a friend of Canadian dairy farmers may have missed its mark.
Dairy cattle, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

Opinion: With friends like this

Canada's dairy farmers getting a bad image

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Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer was back in the headlines recently after a visit to an agricultural fair in Ste. Hyacinthe, Quebec, clearly intended to brand himself as a friend of Canada’s dairy farmers. This friendship may not be helpful. Scheer’s visit follows his widely reported comments to a Dairy Farmers of Canada meeting in
Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Fair’s fair

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An old friend lives in Winnipeg along a major thoroughfare that’s slated for expansion at some yet-to-be-determined future date. He and his wife have lived there for nearly 20 years, and the word of the planned roadwork came down shortly after they bought the house. They’ve been told, in no uncertain terms, that once the
If vegan activists wilfully interfere with the livelihoods of farmers and the people who celebrate food, veganism has a lot to lose.
Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: Hey vegans, time to grow up

Divisive and self-righteous tactics could easily backfire at a crucial moment

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Vegan groups are using billboards these days in the Atlantic region to denounce dairy farming practices, and telling consumers that dairy is scary. Some of these ads show a picture of a young calf, saying that someone “took its mom, its milk, then its life.” All this is to encourage people to switch to a
A combination of late planting and soggy soils can create a host of problems.
Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: Looks like 2019 is one of THOSE years

While the Canadian Prairies are dry, the U.S. is struggling with very wet conditions

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For many of us, certain years are permanently imprinted in the brain: 1983, 1993, 1995. While rainfall is generally welcomed, there are those years when one wishes that it would just hold off long enough to get the crop in the ground. Surely 2019 is destined to join that company. Worse than that, it looks
The almost automatic, guaranteed political support farmers and ranchers once received from the public is quickly draining.
Opinion, Other

Opinion: Agriculture leaking support fast

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When you’ve been in the ag journalism game for almost 40 years, few things surprise you. And, yet, on June 21, the Washington Post published a farm-based story that made even this greybeard marvel at how tone deaf and superior sounding rural politics has become. Even more startling was the reader reaction to that growing
falling number test
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Interests aligned?

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Canada’s major grain companies — through their industry voice the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA) — have come out swinging against a discussion paper that puts analytical testing on the table (see Allan Dawson’s front-page story). The Canadian Grain Commission has been reviewing whether falling number and tests for the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) would serve
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Pulling it together

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It’s been a long road towards merger for Manitoba commodity groups. Over the past three years groups have opted in and out of the process and at times it’s seemed like little or nothing was happening. But in truth that’s just been the long, slow process of trying to bring independent entities together into one

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