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Editorial: Corporate interest makes sustainability in agriculture tangible

By Laura Rance-Unger December 19, 2019

It didn’t take long for a young cattle rancher from Saskatchewan to capture the audience’s attention at the Canada 2020 National Forum on Agri-Food in Ottawa earlier this month. “For me, the word ‘sustainability’ is synonymous with McDonald’s,” said Adrienne Ivey, who is part of a family corporation managing 3,000 beef cattle on a 10,000-acre

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Charting a different path for Canadian ag

By Gord Gilmour December 12, 2019

The National Farmers Union used its 50th annual convention to release a major discussion paper that charts a new path for agriculture. There are a lot of details, but it makes the case that farmers have committed to a form of high-input agriculture that can be environmentally harmful and economically risky. The document’s key conclusion

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: The crops groups merger vote nears

By Gord Gilmour December 5, 2019

Are you ready for the Manitoba Crop Alliance vote? The MCA is the name a new merger of crops groups is poised to take on if their amalgamation proposal passes votes to be held at this winter’s CropConnect conference. That meeting, slated for February 11-13 in Winnipeg, will see the annual meetings of the Manitoba

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Lack of leadership on Food Safety Act leads to limbo

By Gord Gilmour November 28, 2019

On June 11, 2009 Gary Doer was contemplating his pending exit from provincial politics, Barack Obama had less than six months under his belt as president of the United States and Stephen Harper was still nearly two years away from receiving his first majority mandate. In popular culture, Jason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor” was burning

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Editor’s Take: Ignoring the rural electoral base

By Gord Gilmour November 21, 2019

Just weeks after the last provincial election campaign wrapped up, it might seem too soon to talk about the next one. But in the context of discontent in Manitoba’s farm country, it’s a topic worth considering. The governing Progressive Conservatives benefited, as they typically do, from strong support in rural Manitoba. In fact, agro-Manitoba voted

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Editor’s Take: Crime waves

By Gord Gilmour November 14, 2019

One day, while working in downtown Winnipeg, I left my job for a dentist appointment just a few blocks away. In a rush to get there on time, I cut through a parking lot and was headed down a short alley to the next street. I was just walking along, minding my own business, when

If government bodies want agriculture and food to help drive economic growth, they need to be prepared to ride out the cyclical nature of the profession right alongside farmers.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Farmers need better financial supports

By Gord Gilmour November 7, 2019

One thing the designers of farm programs at the governmental level can’t seem to wrap their heads around is the myriad of ways things can go wrong out in the countryside. They like to slot things into neat boxes and sketch out a few likely scenarios, and design the programs around them and call it

The key issue in the seed royalty debate appears to be that farmers are very reluctant to any system that costs them more money.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Seed royalties just one option

By Gord Gilmour October 31, 2019

Ron DePauw wouldn’t get a second look from most Canadians. But his worth to the country is measured in the billions, yes, with a “B.” Born in rural Saskatchewan and raised on a Treherne-area farm, the now-retired DePauw is one of the most prolific wheat breeders in the world. He was involved in the research

A house and farmyard are obscured by blowing snow as tree branches weighed down by heavy snow bend under the strain.

Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Opinion

Editorial: What if those weather forecasts are right?

By Laura Rance-Unger October 24, 2019

To say Thanksgiving weekend was a wake-up call for those of us living in rural Manitoba would be an understatement. The mid-October snowstorm that swept through the south-central zone between Brandon and Winnipeg is one for the memory books, ranking right up there with the Colorado low that shut down the region in March of

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

Editor’s Take: Picking food fights

By Gord Gilmour October 17, 2019

Milk, in particular Canada’s supply management system, has always been a preoccupation of our southern neighbours. If you want to make someone in the U.S. agriculture sector go apoplectic in short order, just bring up the subject. To quote the current occupant of the White House in a tweet launched in the midst of USMCA

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Editorial: Corporate interest makes sustainability in agriculture tangible

Editor’s Take: Charting a different path for Canadian ag

Editor’s Take: The crops groups merger vote nears

Editor’s Take: Lack of leadership on Food Safety Act leads to limbo

Editor’s Take: Ignoring the rural electoral base

Editor’s Take: Crime waves

Editor’s Take: Farmers need better financial supports

Editor’s Take: Seed royalties just one option

Editorial: What if those weather forecasts are right?

Editor’s Take: Picking food fights

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