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The average increase in value of cultivated Canadian farmland was 11.5 per cent in 2023, and there is clear evidence that the cost of owning land in some areas now outstrips its income generation ability.
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Opinion: Diversity may buffer risk of farmland buys

Should farmers consider ecological diversity as a risk management tool?

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Glacier FarmMedia – It’s the time of year that farmland often changes hands. This spring, there is an increase of sales in certain sectors, driven by land stress and owners’ inability to weather another financial or literal storm. Many of these properties are monocultures or singularly focused production units and highly dependent on one source
A farmer might not think this is an important issue, but if processors, retailers and consumers do, that farmer will have to meet the standard, regardless of their own feelings.
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Editor’s Take: Accounting for change

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A life of spreadsheets might not be for everyone, but accountancy is important work. It’s how we measure success, track expenses, and how we hold people and organizations accountable. A new report from one of Canada’s major accounting firms, Deloitte Canada, proposes a different application for accounting principles, one that farmers may not be accustomed
Canada’s fire season is expected to begin earlier and last longer this year.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Canadians left high and dry on water management issues

Federal budget 2024 misses the mark on water-related investments

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Canadians are worried as they look ahead to summer. Forest fires in British Columbia are expected to begin earlier and last longer this year and the Prairies are still expecting continued drought. Other Canadians are also bracing for or are already experiencing extreme flood conditions. In the lead-up to the federal government’s 2024 budget, there
Deciding where to remove animals requires careful planning based on where CWD has been found.
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Managing CWD means some deer have got to die

Animal removal, including hunting, will be key to nipping chronic wasting disease at the bud

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British Columbia, like Manitoba, is in the early days of its fight against chronic wasting disease. Things are moving quickly, and they must. On March 13, the British Columbia government announced it would harvest deer in the Kootenays. The word came six weeks after CWD, a fatal prion disease in deer, elk, moose and caribou,
Comment: No room for raw milk
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Comment: No room for raw milk

Bird flu infections in U.S. dairies underscore reasons pasteurization rules are a good idea

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I was on the edge of the conversation, waiting for the speaker at the ag-event-of-the-week to finish mingling so I could corner him for an interview. His conversation with a few of the event attendees had turned to dairy. The speaker came from the U.S., where rules on the sale of raw milk for human
Comment: Sovereignty is sovereignty
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Sovereignty is sovereignty

We must support the right of the people of Mexico to determine their own relationship with corn

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In solidarity with Mexico, today (April 8) 31 Canadian organizations including the National Farmers Union stated their objection to Canada’s role in a trade challenge initiated by the United States under the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement, which aims to end Mexico’s restrictions on the use of genetically modified corn for certain foods. Corn, also known as
According to a new book, pigs outnumber people in Iowa seven to one and produce the ‘manure equivalent to the waste of nearly 84 million people.’
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: The barons of the dinner table

New book pulls back the curtains on ag mercantilists

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Manufacturers are “an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public.” That quote is originally from the first economist, Scotland’s Adam Smith, almost 250 years ago, and is repurposed by writer Eric Schlosser in the foreword of Iowan Austin Frerick’s new book, “Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption
Kids crowd to see chicks hatch at the 2024 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Agri-culture embraced at Royal Manitoba Winter Fair

Events like the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair help ag connect with urban consumers, but how much difference does it actually make?

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Visitors to the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon at the end of March were entertained by an aggressively hungry ewe. They also saw newborn chicks flopping and flipping a few minutes after cracking their eggs. Horses clopped down the alleys, hefty-muscled and throwing off anxious-for-the-ring energy. There was straw, boots, company-branded gear, ropes, helmets,

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