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Opinion: The anti-science of ‘sound science’

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For more than 20 years, farm and ranch groups, Congress, and Big Agbiz have used the phrase “sound science” like a sharp shovel to bury or undermine agricultural policy. Ask them to define “sound science,” however, and you’ll get no clear explanation. That’s because “sound science” is a political weapon, not a branch of knowledge.
Port of Churchill.
Opinion, Other

Opinion: OmniTrax not only ones that derailed Churchill

There’s plenty of other culprits in this sad story


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For over 100 years, the Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay was the gateway to northern Manitoba and communities in Nunavut. Served by 820 kilometres of railway line from The Pas, it shipped western grain to European markets until the port was stranded, then closed, and the hundreds of remote northern communities along the railway
Loblaw, Weston bake the numbers, burn consumers
Opinion

Loblaw, Weston bake the numbers, burn consumers

As shocking as it was, most of us will eventually forget Loblaw’s admission of price-fixing. Let’s hope the industry doesn’t


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Most Canadians were stunned and dismayed to learn that the country’s leading grocer was caught up in a price-fixing scheme with bread maker George Weston Ltd., which is owned by the same company. The scheme lasted from 2001 to 2015. As a result, Loblaw Companies fired several people and gave $25 gift certificates to millions
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Future farms

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What will the farm of tomorrow look like? There’s certainly no end of opinions on offer when that question gets asked. Will the average Prairie farm become a massive undertaking, measured in tens of thousands of acres, wired in every corner to harness the power of big data? That’s certainly one possibility, and if history
Opinion

Opinion: Not sufficient for gains to outweigh losses in trade

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One of the surprise issues of the 2016 U.S. election was trade policy. For decades Republicans and some Democrats have supported a succession of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements including the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement which includes the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations. Opposition to these agreements traditionally was concentrated among Democrats
Opinion, Other

Opinion: A rural view of the KPMG provincial review

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*[UPDATED: Jan. 10, 2018] There has been much discussion and analysis of the KPMG Manitoba Fiscal Performance Review recently released by the provincial government. However, the potential impacts that will occur in rural and remote Manitoba communities, if some of the review’s recommendations are implemented, have not yet been part of the dialogue. The review
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: No fake news here

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The tree is now down, the fruit cake all eaten So it’s time for our annual New Year’s greetin’ On the past year’s news we offer reflection And give a glimpse of the future direction Plus offer valuable free farming advice On what to grow, and when to sell at top price For a while
Opinion

The input industry championed the three-decade push for all-out production

Planned production reductions would eat into their bottom line, making them an unpopular policy topic

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Why are supply management programs such an anathema to so many people? Part of the reason can be traced to events that took place 34 years ago. Between the 1981 crop year and the 1982 crop year, corn ending stocks increased 1.0 billion bushels (12.2 per cent of production) to 3.5 billion bushels with grain
Opinion, Other

Blockchain could revolutionize food

It’s an impressive and high-tech solution to the problem of sharing information 
from many parties quickly and easily

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There has been a lot of noise on cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin of late. While some suggest cryptocurrencies are a fraud, others believe them to be the next economic revolution. Bitcoin has brought to light the interesting concept of blockchain technology, which offers great potential for the agri-food sector. Yet it is far from being the
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Happy Christmas

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Here in the heart of winter, those of us living north of the equator find our days drawing ever shorter until reaching their nadir; we must find comfort where we can. Societies through history have dealt with this by having a mid-winter celebration as a centrepiece of their calendars, be they written, celestial, lunar or

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