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Comment: The bold choice

The front-runner for U.S. agriculture secretary would be a break with tradition

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It’s a challenge to find one person with the combined skills of a farmer, rancher, forester, food aid administrator, tribal leader, attorney, economist, conservationist, miner, insurance expert, food scientist, and finance specialist to fill the about-to-open job of the secretary of agriculture. In fact, that person — described, in part, by the titles of the
In the opinion that led to the settlements, one of the appellate judges who denied Smithfield a retrial, asked a simple question: “How did it come to this?”
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Comment: Gambling on the future of food, rural communities

As wealth and power concentrate in the ag sector, the outcomes are getting worse

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Three events on consecutive mid-November days show farmers, ranchers, and all citizens where agriculture now is. Event One: On Nov. 18, the Iowa Capital Dispatch, a not-for-profit news website, detailed allegations on how managers at Tyson Food’s hog-killing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, literally gambled on employee lives as the coronavirus took root last April. “In
Compared with the initial lockdown this past spring, shoppers have been more disciplined, and for the most case, aren’t buying more than they need.
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Comment: Lockdowns – The Sequel

At least this time around we’ll all have the benefit of experience

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Many markets in Canada will likely go through a second lockdown, including the Atlantic bubble. With potentially 60,000 cases a day within weeks, it seems inevitable. The virus knows no borders, and the virus is now spreading like a wildfire. Toronto and Peel region are now experiencing a second lockdown in nine months. As news
Opinion: Playing the long game
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Opinion: Playing the long game

Canada should consider how to re-engage China for when time is right

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Glacier FarmMedia – Despite a massive roadblock between China and Canada, conversations on how to improve the trading relationship between the two countries are worth having. The Canada West Foundation’s (CWF) recent report entitled Re-engagement Strategies for China on Agricultural Issues, written by Carlo Dade, the CWF’s director of its Trade & Investment Centre and
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Editor’s Take: Riding the tide

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Will the farm of tomorrow be larger than the farm of today? Most farmers and people familiar with the industry would likely answer that question with a resounding ‘yes.’ After all, it’s been the pattern we’ve all observed for decades. Since the end of the Second World War, we’ve seen farm size grow, farm numbers
In lieu of positioning the product as unique, or an alternative, Beyond Meat has become its own worst enemy by encouraging consumers to ditch meat.
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Comment: Ditching Beyond Meat

McDonald’s is divorcing itself from the plant-based food giant’s anti-meat rhetoric

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One of the most bizarre food stories of the year, other than the panic buying we witnessed in the spring in the western world, is the quasi-divorce between McDonald’s and Beyond Meat. While McDonald’s recently announced its new McPlant products to be rolled out in 2021, Beyond Meat, that was working with the fast-food chain
It’s not true to say that AgriStability is fundamentally broken, says Keystone Agricultural Producers.
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Letters: BRM not ‘fundamentally broken’

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In a November 5 Manitoba Co-operator article on AgriStability reform, we read some frustration into Minister Pedersen’s comment, “And what we keep asking KAP to do is to look at the long term on this.” KAP is intently focused on the long term. That is why our vision statement is “A sustainable and profitable future
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Editor’s Take: Un-plandemic

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It’s an old axiom: if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. Nowhere, it would appear, is this truer than when it comes to battling the COVID-19 pandemic. As our Geralyn Wichers reports for the front-page story in our Nov. 26 issue of the Co-operator, Manitoba processors who had plans in place to
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Letters: Crown land leaseholders betrayed

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Our provincial minister of agriculture wants you to believe that he generously gave leaseholders what they wanted after there was a huge uproar over proposed Crown land modernization changes made by then minister Ralph Eichler. That is not the case. After huge leaseholder protests, Ralph Eichler conceded and agreed to bring back family transfers, ensuring

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