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Saskatchewan Land A Solid Investment

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Financial guru and author Jim Rogers recently suggested to an assembly of Toronto investment bankers that they “sell their houses in the city, move to Saskatchewan, buy tractors and farmland and start farming.” Seeing investment bankers employed in a productive profession would of course be interesting, but the real message is that Rogers expects crop
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Time For A Wheat Reserve

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And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:
Opinion

Big Oil Invests In Ethanol

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If it’s even partly true that you’re known by the company you keep, then the farmer-loved ethanol business got a lot less lovable Feb. 8 when Valero Energy Corp., the largest crude oil refiner in North America, announced its intent to purchase five of the choicest plants owned by mega-biofuel maker, mega-bankrupt VeraSun Energy. Should
Opinion

Feed millers go above and beyond safety regs

The March 12 Manitoba Co-operator features an article in which Richard Holley of the University of Manitoba suggests that there are insufficient regulatory and manufacturing controls in Canada to prevent the widespread inclusion of pathogens in animal feed (“Stop recycling pathogens in animal feed,” March 12, page 27). He is quoted as saying that “there’s
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Time To Rethink The Beef Business

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We are encouraged by a growing consumer movement towards not only organic foods, but just as important, local foods. Has anyone paid much attention to the NFU’s November 19, 2008 report on The Farm Crisis and the Cattle Sector? Among other things, the report reveals that average cattle prices are nearly half what they were
Livestock, Opinion

What’s The Alternative?

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“Never forget this – it’s a pennies business,” Keystone Processors president Kelly Penner said last week following the new beef-packing company’s official opening in the former Schneider’s pork plant on Marion St. in Winnipeg. It’s also a business in which new players need to watch their backs. As one industry participant put it recently, the
Opinion

Aggies To Obama: No!

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“…if your local butcher put his greasy thumb on the scale in such a clumsy manner, you’d slap him with your chequebook. Congress does it, however, and you hand it your chequebook.” Of the many talents Americans– and especially American politicians – have acquired in the last 25 years, coupling fact with fiction to create
Livestock, Opinion

An Open Letter To The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association

A recent letter from the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association (MCPA) to a National Farmers Union (NFU) member who had requested a refund of her MCPA checkoff went to great lengths to fabricate a fictitious partnership between the NFU and R-CALF. Based upon previous experience related to MCPA attacks upon the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement checkoff, and
Cereals, Opinion

Food Labels Might Include Carbon Footprint

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Irecently received a call from a commodity organization that had a request from Japanese grain buyers. To sumarize, the grain industry is getting more questions from Japanese consumers who want to know what the carbon footprint is of the foods they are consuming. People worldwide are becoming more cognizant of global warming, climate change and
Opinion

The Time Has Come

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It was bound to happen sooner or later, but the Manitoba government may have poked a hornet’s nest with its proposal to make membership in a general farm policy group mandatory. If the current proposal comes to pass, farmers would register their operations and be required to directly support a general farm operation sanctioned by

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