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Editorial: A shifting paradigm

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Since the start of the Second World War, food guides in the western world have all shared a similar singular focus. Military recruiters of the time were shocked to learn that many men at the time wouldn’t make adequate soldiers because their basic nutritional needs had not been met in the depths of the Great
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Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: The unavoidable death of ‘click and collect’

Consumers want to get food products delivered directly to their homes but they don’t necessarily want to pay for it

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Grocers can no longer afford to wait for their money to show up at their stores. That’s a given. They need to go after it as well. E-commerce in the grocery business was barely a thought five years ago. Most of them did not want to cannibalize sales and decrease foot traffic. The primary idea
Opinion: It’s not really a ‘Farm’ Bill
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Opinion: It’s not really a ‘Farm’ Bill

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You might think that U.S. Treasury officials would have cringed last month when the president and Congress signed off on a Farm Bill with a total cost of US$867 billion. That’s 155 times more than President Trump’s US$5.6-billion request for the border wall, which shut down parts of the U.S. government. In fact, they probably
The 2018 Farm Bill does nothing about the major problem farmers face — the lack of a price that is even close to the full cost of production.
Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: U.S. Farm Bill: ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’

The latest Farm Bill does nothing about the major problems — low prices and overproduction

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As we began reading details from the recently passed 2018 Farm Bill, it reminded us of the old 1960s spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Except in this case no one is likely to end up with the gold. Let’s start with the
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Meeting in the middle

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Health Canada has delivered some reassuring news for people worried about glyphosate in their food and the environment in the wake of some of the controversial reports and court rulings last year. The much-publicized jury ruling in favour of a California plaintiff claiming long-term exposure to the weed killer caused his cancer, has touched off
Opinion: Time to buckle up on buses
Opinion, Other

Opinion: Time to buckle up on buses

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With treacherous winter driving conditions upon us and the holidays over, a group of parents is feeling uneasy about sending their children to school on the school bus — and I am among them. My daughter is currently a first grade student at St. Anne Immersion. Since the first day my daughter stepped on board
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Rubber meets road on trade deals

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It’s an article of faith in many parts of Canada’s agriculture economy that trade is good, the freer the better. In the run-up to recent deals with the European Union (CETA) and a group of Asian-Pacific trading partners (CPTPP,) many of your industry groups were among the loudest and most supportive voices. Both are now
Wheat seeds spilling from hand, close-up
Opinion, Other

Opinion: The backstory on Seed Synergy

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Over the last two months farmers have become aware of an ominous drive, co-ordinated by elements of Canada’s seed industry and financially aided by our federal government, that is attempting to eliminate our right to freely save and reuse our own seed. This story actually begins in 1990, when the Canadian government adopted the UPOV
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Back to business

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I’ll never forget my young daughter’s reaction a few years ago to the first day back to school after Christmas break. As I tried to gently shake her awake and tell it was time to get ready for school, she peered at me bleary eyed and wailed: “So there’s no more holidays? You mean it’s
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Doggerel — 30th anniversary edition

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The holiday is over, with all its big meals epicurious You know what that means: it’s time to get serious And start the new year with a bit of reflection On how the past year went in an agricultural direction Then look ahead to advise which crops to be seeding And give you one or

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