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Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Should the province sell its agricultural lands?

By Gord Gilmour October 10, 2019

In 1932 my grandfather moved north from the drought-stricken plains of southern Saskatchewan, to the province’s parkland region. Chasing rain and a better life, he first homesteaded a rocky quarter, turned it back in and the next year bought an irregularly shaped piece of property, totalling 204 acres, bounded by two creeks, from the Hudson

About three dozen animal activists trespassed who illegally entered a barn at the Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony near Fort MacLeod, Alta., on Sept. 2 in what they called a “Liberation Lockdown.”

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: A camera in every (barn) corner

By Gord Gilmour October 3, 2019

Sir Paul McCartney, of pop music fame, once famously observed, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.” Built into this statement is the assumption that most people are too squeamish to look what they eat in the eye, and there is a grain of truth there. Most people prefer to only meet their

When farmers of all stripes do their job well, consumers have the option to safely choose between meat or plant-based sources of protein.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Is fake meat just a flash in the pan?

By Gord Gilmour September 26, 2019

How much real interest is there in fake meat? By that I mean not the sort of interest you see in the equity markets where share prices have been driven through the roof because some investor doesn’t want to miss the next Microsoft or Amazon. Or the latest media hype, of which there’s been no

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Manitoba farmers falling through the cracks

By Gord Gilmour September 19, 2019

The past couple of months have been frustrating ones for the staff of this publication. For us in the agriculture sector the election was particularly ill-timed as it encompassed much of a particularly challenging growing season. We’ve run into more than a few examples of gun-shy provincial civil servants, who have been extremely reluctant to

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Yellow dogs

By Gord Gilmour September 12, 2019

Forty-seven years. Under a plan put forward by the Progressive Conservatives in the waning days of the provincial election, that’s how long it will have taken farmers to get a fairer education tax system. It was a foundational issue in 1984 when the province’s general farm organization, the Keystone Agricultural Producers, came into being. To

Columns, Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Productivity potential

By Gord Gilmour September 6, 2019

A recent agriculture report from the Royal Bank of Canada paints a picture of a sector with big opportunities and big challenges. Farmer 4.0: How the coming skills revolution can transform agriculture is all-in on the concept of farms thriving in the digital age. It paints a picture of autonomous equipment, sensor-driven agronomy and other

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

Editorial: Farmer support complex issue

By Gord Gilmour August 30, 2019

A recent call from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture for more support for farmers affected by trade issues raises some interesting questions. The CFA was responding to the announcement of $1.7 billion in direct payments to dairy producers over eight years, compensation for opening a portion of the dairy market to international competition under a

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: No shortage of politics for Manitobans

By Gord Gilmour August 22, 2019

Over the coming months Manitobans have not one, but two elections in front of them. Sept. 10 the province goes to the polls, and the federal election is scheduled for October 21 under the fixed-date election law. Most of us are probably bracing ourselves for some pretty nasty campaigning, as the tone of politics has

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Truck licensing snafu needs fixing

By Gord Gilmour August 15, 2019

Not just anyone should be able to jump behind the wheel of a semi-trailer and go rolling along a public road. After all, these rigs can carry staggering amounts of weight — for example, a Super-B can carry 42 tonnes of grain in a single load. To put that into perspective, it’s the equivalent of

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

(Former) Editor’s Take: Cover crop funding decision unfair to cattle producers

By John Morriss August 8, 2019

High-tech agriculture has been hogging all the attention lately. Mainstream media run stories starting with “It isn’t Old Macdonald’s farm anymore,” describing drones, satellites and tractor cabs fitted with computer screens. Farm media regularly feature stories on the latest precision agriculture innovations and how farmers can figure out how to use all that computer data

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Editor’s Take: Should the province sell its agricultural lands?

Editor’s Take: A camera in every (barn) corner

Editor’s Take: Is fake meat just a flash in the pan?

Editor’s Take: Manitoba farmers falling through the cracks

Editor’s Take: Yellow dogs

Editor’s Take: Productivity potential

Editorial: Farmer support complex issue

Editor’s Take: Truck licensing snafu needs fixing

(Former) Editor’s Take: Cover crop funding decision unfair to cattle producers

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