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Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

Wanted: A Close Shave That Isn’t A Ripoff

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Excessive greed creates opportunity. If a collapsing economy caused mainly by unbridled greed is not enough of a wake-up call, a trip down the grocery store aisle will do the trick. It seems perverse that even as the buying power of society in general is weakened, the cost of food is soaring. But like many
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Letters – for Apr. 23, 2009

Confinement systems fail “freedoms” test In mid-March a group of animal welfare organizations met here in Winnipeg to discuss agricultural confinement systems. The organizations that gathered included the Humane Society of the United States, the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, the British Columbia SPCA, and the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, Humane Society International, and
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Farming To Feed The World – for Apr. 23, 2009

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If you had a nickel for every magazine story that detailed the best ideas to pass your farm or ranch on to your children and grandchildren, you’d have one wealthy farm or ranch to pass on. If, however, you had a nickel for every magazine story that detailed what economic, environmental and political actions are
Dairy cattle, Opinion

Finding A Better Farm Story

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One of the hardest jobs for a newspaper editor is deciding each week’s front-page lineup. Generally speaking, the stories chosen should carry some special significance that makes them newsworthy; they need to be unique, unusual, or just plain interesting. That’s how a rather mundane story about dairy farming wound up on the front page of
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Chemical Paranoia

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Basic scientific illiteracy is further compounded by our collective problem with innumeracy. On March 5, the front page of the Globe and Mail screamed the scary headline: “Tests find Bisphenol A in majority of soft drinks.” The story began in loaded and unqualified language: “The estrogen-mimicking chemical BPA, already banished from baby bottles and frowned
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More Than A Name

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Over much of Saskatchewan it was common for farmers en route to town to become trapped in soil drifts across the roads in summer as by snowdrifts in winter. – MEN AGAINST THE DESERT, JAMES H. GRAY 1967 Few of us can imagine much less remember the conditions that brought the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
Cereals, Opinion

Good Riddance To C-13

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Farmers should be grateful that Bill C-13, a bill to amend the Canada Grain Act, failed to make it through Parliament. The bill was removed from consideration for second reading by a motion supported by all three opposition parties. The motion called for the bill to be brought back to Parliament in six months, but
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Blame chemicals, not red meat

Regarding the recent article “Red meat boosts cancer risk: study” (Co-operator, April 2, page 1), I wonder if spraying glyphosate on standing crop has a connection. We know that grain loses germination after being sprayed with glyphosate. Seed growers cannot spray standing crop because of the germination factor. Maltsters reject glyphosatesprayed barley. Chemicals could be
Opinion

Sky-High Debt Puts Farmers At Risk

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George Brinkman is professor Emeritus in the department of food, agricultural and resource economics at the University of Guelph. This first appeared in the April issue of Canadian Farm Business Manager, published by the Canadian Farm Business Management Council. In the global business community, last spring seems like a lifetime ago. In almost every sector,
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Don’t Ignore Farm Succession Planning

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Farm succession is the elephant in the room that many farm operations don’t want to acknowledge. While some family farms have it figured out, for many others it’s a great source of anxiety. As with many family businesses, farmers would typically like to see their operation remain in the family. In fact, farm owners are

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