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Cereals, News, Opinion

Province active in Growing Forward discussions A letter (“Where is the vision?” July 5) from the PC member from Midland, Blaine Pedersen, failed to provide Manitobans and producers in our province with helpful information when it comes to Growing Forward 2. Growing Forward is often referred to as the single most important Agricultural Policy Framework
Cereals, Dairy cattle, Opinion

The buttermilk of the issue

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There are few things more refreshing on a hot summer’s day than a tall glass of cold buttermilk. It has a bracing sourness that challenges the senses, but with none of the bitter aftertaste of milk that has gone off before its due date. It is in this category we place the recent efforts of
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Canadian dairy industry is a source of pride

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Iam proud of Canada’s national agriculture policy for dairy — supply management. Like many rural initiatives of the past, it has deep co-operative roots that have nurtured the development of a viable, modern dairy sector in every region of Canada. It provides the degree of discipline and organization necessary for dairy farmers in the organized
Crops, News, Opinion

An innovative way to encourage agricultural development

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Canadian Foodgrains Bank is always looking for creative ways to fight hunger. That’s why the organization welcomes a new idea announced by the G20 at its recent meeting in Mexico that offers rewards for companies that can solve certain food-related problems. Called AgResults, the new program offers incentives to the private sector to pursue new
News, Opinion

Futures industry shaken as another broker goes bankrupt

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Reuters / Russell Wasendorf Sr., arrested last Friday, confessed to a 20-year fraud at Peregrine Financial Group (PFG), his now-bankrupt Iowa brokerage, saying business troubles and his “big” ego left him no choice: “So I cheated.” In the dramatic conclusion to a week-long saga that has shaken trader confidence in the trillion-dollar U.S. futures markets,
Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

No way to duck crop insurance disaster

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  Many on Capitol Hill are quick to point out that “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s a duck.” What they never add is that this little blinding glimpse of the obvious has never stopped legislative quackery in the past, and it’s not stopping it now. For example, as
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Supply management is in trouble

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Good news. Canada is joining talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will open lucrative new trade opportunities — if we give up supply management. Or so you’d think by reading national newspapers these days. Ever since Canadian participation in the TPP talks was announced last month, columnists in the Globe and Mail and National Post
Opinion

Looking for that amazing tree

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In these first days and weeks of summer here in the Red River corridor, our basin’s trees are fully decked out in their leafy finery. Not only do they protect living areas, fragile lands and riverbanks, but they provide glorious scenes for our winter-weary eyes. But how often do we take these grand living structures
Opinion

Letters, July 5, 2012

We welcome readers’ comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases we cannot accept “open” letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Please forward letters to Manitoba
Livestock, Opinion

Producers must speak up on trade

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Trade negotiations. I can almost hear the pages turning as people turn to other things that seem more relevant. For years everyone involved in agriculture has been subjected to the strong arguments on both sides of this issue. And yet, very little seems to change. For example, since 2001, the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha

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