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App Application Deadlines Extended

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Manitoba corn, sunflower, soybean, edible bean and pulse growers with crops still on the field have been granted extensions on their deadlines to apply under the 2009 advance payments program (APP). Producers who still have unharvested crop that’s insured by crop insurance will now have more time to apply for pre-production advances and also to
Opinion

Agricultural Policy For Developing Countries: Back To Basics

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While many in the U. S. see single-desk marketing boards controlled by farmers as problematic, one needs to consider the nature of the markets into which farmers sell their products. Agricultural policy in developing countries has been an ongoing concern since the end of the Second World War and the dismantling of colonial European empires.
Opinion

Earning A Living From The Marketplace – for Oct. 8, 2009

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What we have heard them say over and over again is they would rather earn their livelihood from the marketplace than the mailbox. Agricultural economists have long known that the price elasticity of food on both the demand side and the supply side is very low. Translated from economist-speak, what that means is that when
Crops, Opinion, Pulses

Touring The Drought Zone

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This will not go down in history as one of the big drought years in Saskatchewan. When everything is tallied, 2009 will not rival years such as 1988 and 2002 for crop-related drought losses. In early July, the drought conditions in west-central and northwest Saskatchewan were steadily worsening. Farm group leaders and opposition politicians were
Crops, Livestock

Cattle Producers Call For Price Insurance Coverage

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“This is an area where we’ve been short every time.” – MARTIN UNRAU, MCPA Canada’s free-enterprise cattle producers have taken a radical step in risk management by asking for a government-run price insurance program. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association recently called for a national cattle price and basis insurance program to guard against drastic dips in
Cereals, Opinion

Myths Distort Canadian Farm Policy

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“(T)he argument that we need to subsidize farming in case the world collapses and we need to supply ourselves simply makes no sense. Myths exist about the strategic position of food, the importance of the family farm to the preservation of rural Canada, and the need to defend Canadian farming in the face of European
Opinion

Policy Shifts Can Be Penny-Wise But Dollar Foolish

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The 1996 Farm Bill’s elimination of the grain storage program, coupled with the elimination of an acreage management program, increased the cost to taxpayers for farm programs by an average of $5.7 billion a year. During the debate over the 1996 Farm Bill, the proponents for eliminating a government stock program argued that the traditional
Opinion

Seeing The Future

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“I subscribe to the view that we’ll see more shortages and better prices more often in the years to come.” To which view of the future of the grain business do you subscribe? View No. 1: the growing world population and increasing prosperity will lead to a long-term uptrend in agricultural prices. View No. 2:
News

Canada Must Be Cautious In Trade Talks

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Canada has good reasons to be leery of the outcome of the negotiations for a new world trade agreement, says veteran trade observer Peter Clark. “We bought and paid for in the Uruguay round better behaviour by other countries on their subsidies,” he told the Commons agriculture committee June 2. “It hasn’t been delivered. We’re
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Time For A Wheat Reserve

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And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:

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