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A sapper of the State Emergency Service inspects an area for mines and unexploded shells in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on March 21, 2023.
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Editor’s Take: A season of uncertainty looms

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The world is once again facing a growing season in the Northern Hemisphere that’s shrouded in uncertainty. A little uncertainty is nothing new, but over the past few years, things have reached a whole new level. As you’ll read on pages 6 and 7 of this issue, few unknowns are larger than what’s going to
If Canadians want improved environmental outcomes at the farm level, farmers need to be compensated accordingly.
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Editor’s Take: The window opens

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It’s been a long-held dream of many in the agriculture sector to see farmers paid for the environmental goods and services they provide to society. The argument goes that farmers can do great things for the environment. But as Bill Campbell, past president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), has often noted, farmers can’t be
The thorny issue of Crown lands is shaping up to be an election issue for rural voters later this fall.
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Editor’s Take: Crown lands an election issue

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If the goal of changes to Manitoba’s Crown land rules was to get more young producers into the cattle business, it’s been an unequivocal failure. And that was one of the major justifications offered for the 2019 changes that shortened leases, did away with unit transfers, raised rents and added an auction component to win
shopping for food in a grocery store
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Editor’s Take: A nuanced take on ‘Food Freedom’

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The Canadian Federation of Agriculture took a different approach this month when it marked its annual ‘Food Freedom Day’ on February 9, just one day later than last year. Ordinarily, it’s a straightforward affair where they note that by this date, the average Canadian has earned enough to pay their food bill for the year.
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Editor’s Take: Woe Canada

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Canada faces many issues internationally that are going to determine the success or failure of its agri-food sector. Is enough being done to address them? That was the subject of a recent summit in Ottawa that John Greig attended on behalf of Glacier FarmMedia. One of the latest and most-hyped endeavours in the agriculture sector
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Editor’s Take: Apocalypse soon-ish?

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It’s the job of the commentator to be a bit provocative and to make people think. Geopolitical economist Peter Zeihan, who gave a keynote address at last week’s Ag Days, certainly accomplished that. Pulling many threads together, from the war in Ukraine and Russia’s historic borders, past the sclerotic regime in Beijing incapable of adapting,
Editor’s Take: Coming together
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Editor’s Take: Coming together

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It’s been an interesting few years. Since March of 2020, it seems in some ways like decades have passed. Perhaps that’s the way it goes when you’re forced to spend too much time alone at home, in your own company. But every now and then a milestone passes, and I realize the whole experience of
Editorial, Op/Ed

(Guest) Editorial: A review of two-two

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As longtime readers know, what we do each year first isReview the one that’s just past, but in doggerel (bad verses)A look back to review things is usually a good practice gainfulBut this year it’s one that feels kind of painfulUps and downs for farmers here seem only a piffleCompared to those in Ukraine dodging
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Editorial: Global food system productive but not sustainable

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One of the world’s leading advocates for global food security had a sobering message for the movers and shakers of Canada’s agricultural sector who attended the Nov. 30 GrowCanada conference. “The reality is, the food system is productive, but it’s not sustainable, folks,” Ertharin Cousin, told her audience of 500 industry and farm organization executives.

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