Opinion: The Bunge-Viterra merger dangerously decreases grain transportation competition in Canadian agriculture.
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Opinion: Defence of Bunge-Viterra merger has holes
Opinion: Is it time for a farmer venture fund?
I would love to see a farmer investment fund here, like Fulcrum Global Capital, that is made up of farmers putting together a pot of cash to invest in ideas that will move the industry forward, and from which they should also get a return.
Editorial: Do you know your cybersecurity risk?
Farms and agricultural businesses are in danger, and most don’t know the extent of their problem. As reporter Janelle Rudolph notes in our front-page story in the May 30 issue of the Co-operator, Canadian producers, agribusinesses and farm groups have all felt the sting of a cyberattack within the past few years. Technology and digital
Opinion: Agriculture is part of the solution for Lake Winnipeg
Laying blame on farmers fails to capture nuance of the problem
It is not your great-granddaddy’s farm anymore. While some may have nostalgia for the old farm with a little red barn that housed a few chickens, a couple of pigs and a dairy cow, it is better for both the environment and the economy that agriculture has modernized. Today’s farmer has taken, and is taking,
The wild side of zoonotics
RATIONS | Did the U.S. practice of feeding chicken litter contribute to the bovine flu outbreak?
Commonly known as bird flu, avian influenza A has crossed the boundaries from the chicken barn to the dairy farm and from there to a human in the United States. This is a serious virus that has infected poultry in 50 American states since 2022. The person infected in April is the second U.S. human
Opinion: Our protein problem
Sources should be evaluated head-to-head on a lifecycle basis and include contribution to human nutrition
Glacier FarmMedia – The world has a protein problem. To be more precise, it has a protein shortage problem. Once digestibility and amino acid balance are considered, there is actually less protein than what’s needed to satisfy human requirements. This shortage can only get worse in coming years with rising populations, a desire by a
Opinion: Diversity may buffer risk of farmland buys
Should farmers consider ecological diversity as a risk management tool?
Glacier FarmMedia – It’s the time of year that farmland often changes hands. This spring, there is an increase of sales in certain sectors, driven by land stress and owners’ inability to weather another financial or literal storm. Many of these properties are monocultures or singularly focused production units and highly dependent on one source
Opinion: The barons of the dinner table
New book pulls back the curtains on ag mercantilists
Manufacturers are “an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public.” That quote is originally from the first economist, Scotland’s Adam Smith, almost 250 years ago, and is repurposed by writer Eric Schlosser in the foreword of Iowan Austin Frerick’s new book, “Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption
Opinion: Agri-culture embraced at Royal Manitoba Winter Fair
Events like the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair help ag connect with urban consumers, but how much difference does it actually make?
Visitors to the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon at the end of March were entertained by an aggressively hungry ewe. They also saw newborn chicks flopping and flipping a few minutes after cracking their eggs. Horses clopped down the alleys, hefty-muscled and throwing off anxious-for-the-ring energy. There was straw, boots, company-branded gear, ropes, helmets,
Opinion: Someone needs to talk tough on trade. Canada, anyone?
More Canada may be just what the moribund global trade scene needs
Glacier FarmMedia – Canada is good at building coalitions and consensus. Maybe it’s time to get tougher. “Why are you so concerned about upsetting people?” asked CropLife International President Emily Rees at the Canadian Crops Convention. Canada could benefit from being “a little less sorry and not having the same fear of upsetting trade partners