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Comment: Extremes make bad food policies

When ideologues at either end of the spectrum stifle debate, we’re all worse off

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Not a day goes by without seeing a group, or even a government, changing rules for farmers. In the name of the planet, animal welfare or our own health, rules are changing despite our farmers’ knowledge and experience. It’s an interesting phenomenon and it’s happening all around the world. Farmers have long been regarded as
Soldier fly larvae like these can convert waste food into high-protein feed.
Comment, Opinion

Comment: Bugs for cows

Feeding insects to cattle could make meat and milk production more sustainable

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The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59 per cent, which is 98 per cent above current levels. In particular, there will be increased demand for high-quality protein foods such as meat and dairy products. Livestock producers
Editorial, Opinion

Editor’s Take: A return to normalcy

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What a long, strange trip it’s been, to quote the old song. Back in March 2020, most of us were probably expecting a brief interruption — a few weeks at most — to our lives. Needless to say, that’s not how it played out. It’s been more than two years of cancellations, delays and shelved
Climate change requires all net CO2 emitters to cut output.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Real GHG emissions solutions need open mind

First steps in ag climate fight are honesty and courage, not offsets and credits

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[UPDATED: May 19, 2022] Last May, the Canadian National Farmers Union (NFU), submitted a detailed response to the Canadian government’s earlier “Draft Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations.” The response, like the government request, went relatively unnoticed in U.S. ag circles. It shouldn’t have because the 23-page reply by the NFU was as shocking in
Canada will be fine when it comes to food access, but food will cost more which will make things difficult for some consumers.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Is Ottawa aware the world is on the brink of a food shortage?

Canada needs to boost its food security and its sustainable agriculture trade

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Food supply chain issues have enticed many to question the global nature of our food systems. Some are suggesting we need to deglobalize and refocus our energy into making most economies around the world food sovereign. Given what the world is about to face this year, with major famine among millions experiencing acute hunger, it’s
Global wheat prices hit record levels in March after war broke out among top exporters Russia and Ukraine, and that came on the heels of an already-tight supply situation.
Op/Ed, Opinion

U.S. winter wheat health among worst ever, yield prospects dicey

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Reuters – The U.S. winter wheat crop has emerged from dormancy in miserable condition following a historically dry winter in key production states, almost guaranteeing that the harvest will not rank among the country’s better ones. The timing is not great since tensions in the wheat market are running high. Global wheat prices hit record
The U.S. Department of Agriculture pegged 2022 U.S. corn plantings at 89.49 million acres based largely on producer surveys conducted in the first half of March.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Analysts blow U.S. corn acreage predictions again

The trade could redeem itself in June when the next estimates drop

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Reuters – U.S. planting intentions kept their unpredictable reputation alive March 30, as corn acres fell outside the range of analyst estimates for a fourth consecutive year. The trade reversed its overestimation trend on soybean area, but the miss was still substantial. Market participants have recently come a little closer to the reported corn and
In 1981, before anyone knew how to spell ethanol, U.S. wheat acres hit a record-high 88 million.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: The coming war for U.S. crop acres

Ethanol might be a sacred cow for now, but expect a renewed food-versus-fuel fight

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Farmers are long familiar with acre wars. This late-winter scrum is a showdown over how many acres of which crop farmers will plant. Most years these fights are decided by a variable — and oftentimes volatile — combination of three elements: what market prices are calling for, how government farm programs could affect prices, and
Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: A broken system

Supply chain fragility reveals overall economic fragility of globalization

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One of the most beautiful – and inexplicable – aspects of economics is how its practitioners never seem to be wrong. Indeed, almost every school of economic thought, from John Maynard Keynes’ demand-driven economics on the left to Arthur Laffer’s supply-side economics on the right, is crowded with disciples defending their leader’s theories and just
Should farmers be pleased that land prices appear to have room to rise or should they be pleased that today’s rocketing land prices might be running out of fuel?
Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: Up, down or sideways??

Farmland values picture becomes unclear when you delve into the numbers

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It’s the choices we make in the good times, the grandson of a Kansas homesteader once told me, that determine our farming successes, not the choices we make in the bad times. Why? Because, he explained, in the good times we have the money to make big mistakes and in the bad times we’re too

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