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A Positive Proactive Response To Activists

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The following is an excerpt from the Manitoba Swine Seminar 2009 proceedings. Dan Murphy is a veteran food and meat industry journalist, commentator and author of the book The Meat of the Matter. He outlined to the February seminar strategies animal industry can use to counter animal welfare activists. More information can be found at:
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Wetlands vital to nutrient management

The Government of Manitoba’s March 25 throne speech includes a statement identifying more research being undertaken to reduce nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg. This comes at the right time as Ducks Unlimited Canada’s (DUC) new water quality research in the Broughton’s Creek watershed in southwest Manitoba shows the need to assist landowners as a critical
Cereals, Opinion

Is This “Modernization?”

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR While appointments to the Canadian Wheat Board have traditionally been at a reasonable arm’s length from politics (at least until the director appointments were hijacked by the current government), it’s always been understood that things are different at the Canadian Grain Commission. Appointments have almost always been given to those with
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The Oligarchs Of Ag

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Former General Motors boss Rick Wagoner evidently did not understand the meaning of the biblical admonition of those who live by the sword often die by it. It’s easy to see why. Detroit has owned Washington, D. C. for, well, forever: no increase in car mileage standards since the Pinto; no new fuel technologies since
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Innovation Capacity

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You could say mad scientists and farmers operating on the lunatic fringe brought about one of the greatest innovations of 20th century agriculture. Some might go so far as to suggest it has saved Prairie farming – from plowing itself into a dusty oblivion. Zero tillage or no-till farming, as it has come to be
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No Insurance For Off-Farm Workers

The following is taken from a brief calling for changes to Canada’s Employment Insurance program presented by Joan Brady, women’s vice-president of the National Farmers Union (NFU) to the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women in Ottawa March 24. The brief chronicles how past and current eligibility requirements make the program
Opinion, Poultry

Debating Feed Contamination And Foodborne Illness Links

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Whether animal feed contaminated by salmonella or E. coli 0157:H7 contributes to the overall burden of food-borne illness in humans is a contentious issue. In a letter March 26 to The Manitoba Co-operator, Graham Cooper, executive director of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada indicated that the Canadian feed industry has adopted measures to prevent
Opinion

Protect the honeybees

I’d like to thank the Co-operator for the coverage you have given to the honeybee problem. Sadly, it doesn’t make me optimistic for the future fate of these wondrous creatures. We have let harmful chemicals insinuate themselves so completely into our lives, we can no longer separate reality from industry or government hype. For instance,
Cereals, Opinion

People Before Politics: Harper Has Failed To Deliver

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For the past three years, the Harper government has been criss-crossing the country making announcement after announcement, promise after promise to Canadian farmers. Big commitments were made to help with things like cost of production, to help build processing capacity and to help farmers create practical programs on the ground. Unfor tunately, Stephen Harper and

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