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Why is the White House linking your grain markets to its struggling immigration policy?
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Comment: Welcome to paradise, er, paradox

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There’s an interesting paradox occurring in today’s commodity and financial markets. Maybe you’ve noticed it; market watchers certainly have. Here’s what they’ve seen: Every time President Donald J. Trump takes to Twitter to threaten a nation with import tariffs — most recently, Mexico — the U.S. stock market shoots higher. Paradoxically, however, every time U.S.
A border fence in Arizona that separates Mexico from the U.S. President Donald Trump recently threatened Mexico with an import tax on all of its products entering the U.S. if it did not make greater efforts to control illegal immigration.
Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: Break out the guacamole

The U.S.-Mexico dispute could translate into both opportunities and perils for Canada

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In an unprecedented move recently, and in a single tweet, President Trump opted to impose five per cent tariffs on all Mexican imports until the illegal immigration issue gets resolved. As the world has now realized, when the White House is willing to intertwine both foreign and trade policies, markets around the world tumbled. In
Grain Farmers of Ontario wants a trade war fund created that will provide support for the non-supply-managed sector during turbulent times.
Opinion, Other

Opinion: Time for a trade war fund

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According to the analysts, futures, input costs, land prices, and market unpredictability are all lining up to create what could be a perfect storm for grain farmers; and unlike our neighbours to the south or the supply-managed sector, we have an inadequate safety net. U.S. farmers received US$9 billion this past year because President Donald
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: A fine balance

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Where does one individual’s rights end, and another’s begin? One famous definition runs like this: “The right to swing my arms in any direction ends where your nose begins.” It’s a straightforward common-sense approach that attempts to balance individual liberty with the rights of others. However, it’s also a very simplistic black-or-white view. The reality
Opinion, Other

Opinion: Animal activism and farmer safety

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The Crown’s recent decision to drop charges against an animal activist has fuelled frustration, fear, and action in Ontario’s farming community. The activist, who video-recorded herself breaking into a barn near Lucan and stealing two pigs, belongs to a group that opposes animal agriculture. On May 1st, the Crown attorney’s office in London dropped break-and-enter
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Brand name

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As the writing began to appear on the wall for the Canadian Wheat Board, many wondered what would become of Brand Canada. The nation has long enjoyed a global reputation as a producer of high-quality milling wheat. Canada has been a dominant player in this lofty quality grouping since the legendary Red Fife and Marquis
The U.S. president told agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue to hurry up with a plan to pay farmers, said one Capitol Hill watcher.
Comment, Opinion

Opinion: Fuel the market, not the trade war

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Complicating an already complicated spring, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced a broad, new scheme that could pay U.S. farmers up to US$14.5 billion. This second bailout plan will not feature a by-the-bushel payment like last year’s nearly US$9-billion bailout because, Perdue explained, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) doesn’t want the new
Canada’s food-processing industry employs more than a quarter of a million people across the country.
Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: Death by regulation

Canadian companies are being hampered by too much government oversight

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The regulation of food industries has always been necessary. In the western world, successive governments have successfully played the anti-business card by implementing regulations so that consumers and the public at large feel someone is looking out for them. But at times, governments are known to flirt with populist measures in their attempt to gain
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Back to normal

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A farmer who’s been around the block can’t be blamed for watching the current economic and political situation with growing nervousness. Anyone who was associated with a Prairie farm during the 1980s and ’90s has no choice but to remember those painful lost years, especially in the crops sector. Income dried up, losses mounted and
Growing young maize seedling in cultivated agricultural farm field with modern technology concepts
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Comment: Talkin’ about my generation

This farm generation is wrestling with bits and bytes in their generational revolution

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It’s a truism in agriculture that food-growing technology undergoes an industry-shaking metamorphosis every generation. When Grandpa (both yours and mine) farmed, better seed like hybrids came in and oat-eating horsepower went out. His sons, our fathers, were early adopters of anhydrous ammonia, 2,4-D, and, whoa, combines. Twenty-five years later, our generational farm-changing moment arrived with

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