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Agriculture isn’t often on the agenda, or radar, at City Hall in Winnipeg. Councillor Brian Mayes is trying to change that.

Winnipeg councillor seeks to promote Grain Innovation Hub

Farmers are doing more than just feeding cities, they are also filling their coffers

By Shannon VanRaes November 1, 2016

Agriculture isn’t usually an agenda item when it comes to City of Winnipeg committee meetings, but one city councillor is trying to change that. Last week St. Vital Councillor Brian Mayes proposed that the city use some of the cash earmarked for innovation to promote the province’s Grain Innovation Hub, created in 2014 to bring

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Of interest

By Gord Gilmour October 27, 2016

Ordinarily there’s not much interesting about interest rates. If things are functioning as they should, most of us rarely think about them. Anyone who does bring them up soon finds it’s a surefire topic to make a dinner companion’s eyes glaze over. But when they do get interesting, it’s rarely a good news story. Just

News

Low interest rates a risk too

Pay attention to the financial obligations you’re assuming, says FCC’s head economist

By Alex Binkley October 27, 2016

Make good use of low interest rates, but don’t get carried away. That’s the message from Farm Credit Canada’s chief economist, J.P. Gervais, in the wake of announcement from the Bank of Canada that the key overnight interest rate would be left at 0.5 per cent. Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz also said Canada

Comment, Opinion

Food deflation troubling

Consumers may welcome cheaper food, but it spells challenges for the food industry  right through to the primary producer

By Sylvain Charlebois October 11, 2016

It is becoming cheaper to buy food in Canada. Canada experienced deflationary food prices in August for the first time in years. While consumers may be delighted to see food prices decline, August numbers are pointing to a significant challenge for the food industry. Making money in the food business is not what it used

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Armchair economist

By Gord Gilmour September 15, 2016

It’s been said that anyone who thinks about economic forecasts for more than about a half an hour a year is wasting their life. A professional economist told me that, and what she was getting at is the intractable nature of economics. Even the experts can’t agree on what’s happening, or has happened, never mind

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Various views on the feeder cattle market

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen July 27, 2015

If you talked to three Western Canadian cattle buyers this week, you probably would receive four different views on the market. Certain auction barns were reflecting an average week-over-week decline of $3 to $5 but feature strings of cattle were back up to historical high prices. Early sales in the season are like tryouts at a

Daily Network News

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Winnipeg councillor seeks to promote Grain Innovation Hub

Editorial: Of interest

Low interest rates a risk too

Food deflation troubling

Editorial: Armchair economist

Klassen: Various views on the feeder cattle market

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