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The U.S. was already dramatically outspending Canada with its latest Farm Bill. But now it’s thrown repeated ad hoc programs at the sector under the guise of offsetting the effects of a trade war and the coronavirus.

Editor’s Take: The new normal of subsidies

By Gord Gilmour October 8, 2020

Many would say Canada’s suite of agricultural business risk management programs is falling short of blunting the whipsaw of the markets. Now, it faces being further overwhelmed by non-market forces. That was the gist of a recent policy note issued by the Agri-Food Economic Systems think tank, authored by respected agricultural economists Al Mussell and

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Editor’s Take: Precedents and partisanship

By Gord Gilmour October 1, 2020

[UPDATED: Oct. 1, 2020] Manitoba’s Municipal Board has, for the first time, overruled an RM council decision regarding a development application. If the fact that a politically appointed board can override the decisions of a duly elected local council isn’t raising eyebrows, it should. We only have to look south at what has taken place

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Editor’s Take: A provincial community

By Gord Gilmour September 24, 2020

One thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has made abundantly clear is just how intertwined all Manitobans really are. In the complex ecosystem that is our province, it’s now clear less separates urban and rural residents than one might think at first glance. To understand this, one needs to look at how our second wave of

Keeping kids safe on the farm is a dilemma the farming community needs to address.

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Editorial: Too many kids still dying on farms

By Laura Rance-Unger September 17, 2020

Over the last two decades there has been a noticeable increase in education and training designed to make farms safer places for children to grow up. Kids, even toddlers, often like to tag along with their farming parent. As they grow older and more capable they have traditionally been an important source of labour on

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Reporter’s Take: COVID-19 too close

By Alexis Stockford September 10, 2020

My father doesn’t waterski much anymore, although I remember him as an avid skier when I was younger. I remember watching him cut the wake on the slalom, on the wakeboard, and even turning the occasional 180 on the trick skis. Nowadays, though, inviting him to take a turn behind the boat is more likely

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Editorial: Surplus food purchases symbolic of broader discussion

By Laura Rance-Unger September 4, 2020

On the surface, the $50-million Surplus Food Rescue Program recently launched by the federal government is simply a sensible response to highly unusual circumstances. The government is buying up surplus fruits, vegetables, meat, fish and seafood from farmers and fishers who would normally supply the foodservice sector and distributing it to Canadians suffering from food

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Editor’s Take: Pork sector inefficiently efficient

By Gord Gilmour August 20, 2020

Has the drive for efficiency gone too far in the pork sector? For the past few decades the drive has been to vertical integration, closely matching production and processing capacity, and larger and more efficient (and far fewer) processing plants. In this MBA-driven world view, any excess surge capacity is viewed as an inefficiency to

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Editor’s Take: COVID-19 a shared problem

By Gord Gilmour August 13, 2020

There’s being good, and there’s being lucky. Sometimes it’s easy to confuse the two. That’s likely what was happening while Manitoba’s COVID case numbers failed to mount. With day-after-day reports of no cases, many seemed to conclude that while COVID was a problem, it wasn’t a Manitoba problem. That’s simply incorrect and it ignores how

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(Former) Editor’s Take: Our most important customer

By John Morriss August 6, 2020

It will take a couple of weeks until the final figures are out, but now that the 2019-20 crop year is over, it’s interesting to note how well grains and oilseeds have been moving, and to where. As of Week 50 with two weeks left to go, producer deliveries were a whopping 60.7 million tonnes,

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Editorial: Trade shenanigans divide and conquer

By Laura Rance-Unger July 30, 2020

While many Canadians were enjoying backyard barbecues this summer after months of being isolated from family and friends, the country quietly embarked on a new era of trade with two of its largest trading partners. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), referred to as the CUSMA in Canadian documents, came into force to replace the North American

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Editor’s Take: The new normal of subsidies

Editor’s Take: Precedents and partisanship

Editor’s Take: A provincial community

Editorial: Too many kids still dying on farms

Reporter’s Take: COVID-19 too close

Editorial: Surplus food purchases symbolic of broader discussion

Editor’s Take: Pork sector inefficiently efficient

Editor’s Take: COVID-19 a shared problem

(Former) Editor’s Take: Our most important customer

Editorial: Trade shenanigans divide and conquer

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