Volatile weather over farm fields in Manitoba punctuates conversation around resiliency both on farm and in policy-making halls of government.
Op/Ed
We need to talk about resiliency
Metaphorical and actual storm clouds punctuate resiliency conversation
Soil: the great unifier
Senate soil report highlights shifting focus on core issues
Senate report, "Critical Ground: why soil is essential to Canada's economic, environmental, human and social health," marks a pivotal shift in how we value soil and soil health.
Editor’s Take: Reflection key to ag labour challenges
Agriculture has to face its workplace shortfalls.
Opinion: Defence of Bunge-Viterra merger has holes
Opinion: The Bunge-Viterra merger dangerously decreases grain transportation competition in Canadian agriculture.
Comment: Healthy food needs corporate support
Big food companies can do more to create healthier food environments
Canada’s food environment makes it hard to eat healthy. Delicious, attractive but unhealthy foods are promoted, priced and placed for easy access and consumption. Meanwhile, companies and their shareholders have legally mandated profit-driven interests — interests that may not align with a desire to support public health and healthy eating among Canadians. We studied the
Adobo, manomin and the illegal perogy lady
Local food history book tells the stories of many cultures that call Manitoba home
Many small-town Manitobans have had a “perogy lady” in their lives. For me, it was a perogy couple. They were older, of Ukrainian heritage, and had a deal with my dad. He would trade half a deer’s worth of venison for butchering services. Sometimes the meat would come back with perogies, and those were the
Opinion: Agriculture is part of the solution for Lake Winnipeg
Laying blame on farmers fails to capture nuance of the problem
It is not your great-granddaddy’s farm anymore. While some may have nostalgia for the old farm with a little red barn that housed a few chickens, a couple of pigs and a dairy cow, it is better for both the environment and the economy that agriculture has modernized. Today’s farmer has taken, and is taking,
Editorial: The bill’s coming for bad roads
It’s been a good spring for bad road stories. To be fair, it’s prime time for it — the season of frost boils, weight restrictions and ruts from vehicles and machinery on gravel roads that are still firming up. Even by the standards of spring, though, it feels like it’s been hard to drive any
Opinion: Our protein problem
Sources should be evaluated head-to-head on a lifecycle basis and include contribution to human nutrition
Glacier FarmMedia – The world has a protein problem. To be more precise, it has a protein shortage problem. Once digestibility and amino acid balance are considered, there is actually less protein than what’s needed to satisfy human requirements. This shortage can only get worse in coming years with rising populations, a desire by a
Editorial: Grain business consolidation and concentration
Press releases are often notable because of what they don’t say. Then again, sometimes they unintentionally speak volumes. For example, consider the official statements coming from the Glencore team related to their role in the continuing consolidation and concentration of the grain handling business in Canada. In 2012, when Glencore announced it was acquiring Viterra,
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