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Educational systems for 2050 — lessons from history

An essay from Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050 an assessment of 
Prairie agriculture’s readiness for climate change

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“Education is what survives when what was learned has been forgotten.” (B.F. Skinner 1964, New Scientist, 21 May) “(Education) has produced a vast population able to read, but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.” (G.M. Trevelyan 1942, in English Social History) Taken together, these quotes are
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News & Opinion, Opinion

Thinking of bees

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Bees rank right up there with climate change these days for the volume of studies and stories that cross a farm newspaper editor’s desk. Sometimes the two are even linked, such as the prediction that Africanized honeybees, which can be fatally aggressive, will make their way north from the southern U.S. as median temperatures rise.
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Opinion

Ecological farming has bright future

Natural systems agriculture offers a practical alternative to ‘command and control’ production models

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Industrialized countries use a “command and control” model in agriculture — where we try to control many of the biological processes in farming. But, problems like herbicide and antibiotic resistance, water pollution and loss of wildlife and biodiversity demonstrate that no matter how hard we try, the most diligent “command and control” approach cannot keep
Opinion

Coming clean on antibiotics

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Canadian health and veterinary authorities have been discussing the virtually unregulated and poorly monitored antibiotic use in farm animals since the late 1990s. Now Health Canada is starting to do something about it. In new protocols to be phased in over the next three years, producers wishing to use antibiotics considered important to human medicine
Oilseeds, Opinion, Weather

Change is constant

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The next time you have an hour or two to spare, find your way to the National Centre for Livestock and Environment’s website and download a paper called: Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050. But be forewarned, while reading through it doesn’t leave one with any overriding sense of panic, neither does it leave one feeling
Cereals, Opinion

Lunar eclipses, voodoo — and doughnuts

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The mythology around lunar eclipses — especially “blood moons” like the one we witnessed early April 14 — is that they foretell of significant events, ranging from doomsday scenarios to the second coming. Without any pretence of superstition, we couldn’t help but note this in the context of our story this week about three major farm
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

The grain market needs a dose of ‘good cholesterol’

More regulation is not the solution to improving grain transportation

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Just as there is both good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, there are both good and bad regulations. The CWB single desk was an example of a bad regulation — it clogged the arteries of western Canadian grain commerce by burdening farmers with high costs and no evidence of premium prices. Markets are efficient and effective
Opinion

Rules and reality

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It’s hard not to have a soft spot for farm families attempting to participate in the local food movement. For one thing, they put a fresh face on farming, as many are younger than the greying statistical demographic of Canadian farmers. That said, it’s much easier to partake in a 100-mile diet living on the
Long line of grain rail cars.
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

New insights into Canadian Wheat Board orderly marketing

Markets work best when unfettered and there is competition

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I have a new understanding of the term “orderly marketing.” I once thought of it simply as the approach the now defunct single-desk Canadian Wheat Board took to selling western Canadian wheat and barley. You know — pricing to market, not flooding markets to avoid driving prices down and providing equitable delivery opportunity for farmers.
Opinion

Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) and Bill C-18

Despite what detractors say, both farmers and breeders will benefit

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As public plant breeders with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the University of Saskatchewan for a combined total of over 100 years, we were pleased to see the recently tabled Agricultural Growth Act (Bill C-18). This bill encompasses desirable amendments to the present Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) Act that will bring Canada into conformity with

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