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Greater cyber vulnerability is part of the price we pay for technological sophistication.
Opinion

Editorial: Do you know your cybersecurity risk?

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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
An algae bloom photographed in 2017.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Agriculture is part of the solution for Lake Winnipeg

Laying blame on farmers fails to capture nuance of the problem

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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,
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News & Opinion, Opinion

The wild side of zoonotics

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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
We need a new research model to address the problem of accurately comparing protein sources whether they be of natural, or manufactured processes.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Our protein problem

Sources should be evaluated head-to-head on a lifecycle basis and include contribution to human nutrition

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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
The average increase in value of cultivated Canadian farmland was 11.5 per cent in 2023, and there is clear evidence that the cost of owning land in some areas now outstrips its income generation ability.
Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: Diversity may buffer risk of farmland buys

Should farmers consider ecological diversity as a risk management tool?

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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
According to a new book, pigs outnumber people in Iowa seven to one and produce the ‘manure equivalent to the waste of nearly 84 million people.’
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: The barons of the dinner table

New book pulls back the curtains on ag mercantilists

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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
Kids crowd to see chicks hatch at the 2024 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon.
Op/Ed, Opinion

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?

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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,
Canada has a vested interest in rejuvenating the world trading order and could take on the role of world trade cop, but the political will appears to be missing.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Someone needs to talk tough on trade. Canada, anyone?

More Canada may be just what the moribund global trade scene needs

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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
Pasture south of Medicine Hat shows little snow cover to rejuvenate water levels as of December 2023 following another drought year in Alberta. PHOTO: ALEX MCCUAIG
Opinion

Wider conversation needed on climate causes

PERSPECTIVE | Agriculture has a role to play, but so does society at large

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It’s tough being a farmer today and it is easy to be fixed on sky watching, that proverbial hope of rain or snow and even perhaps a wee bit of wind. Even as the farmer watches, there are political and social expectations that we, the keepers of the land, do something to change the course
Supported by social media, millennials have challenged the food industry, advocating for clean labelling, better sourcing of ingredients and healthier options.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: The times, they are a-changin’

Canada is undergoing a generational change, and that’s shifting consumer food choice

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Millennials now outnumber boomers in our country, says Statistics Canada. As of July 1, 2023, the millennial population (born in 1981-1996), has surpassed baby boomers (born in 1946-1965) for the first time. Likewise, generation Z (born in 1997-2012) has surpassed generation X (born in 1966-1980) to become Canada’s third-largest generation and is projected to become

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