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Editorial: Time for a time-out

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What are your vacation plans this year? I ask because I suspect the answer for many of you will be that you don’t really have any plans, or more likely, you feel too busy to take a break. It’s understandable. After all, summer is the busiest season on any farm, and doubly so in this
Editorial: Big crops on the horizon
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Big crops on the horizon

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There are some among us who plan their drive across the Canadian Prairies so they do most of it under the cover of darkness, ostensibly to avoid the tedium of vast horizons on which there is “nothing” to see. To each their own. I’ve taken that drive twice this spring — with the help of
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Brexit, red beans and rice

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The plates served up to reporters attending a World Refugee Day event hosted by Canadian Foodgrains Bank June 20 were symbolic of rations for refugees displaced from their homes by war — red beans and rice. Three days later, the industrialized world was trying to swallow a heaping plate of Brexit — also symbolic —
Editorial: Time to change
Editorial, News & Opinion

Editorial: Time to change

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Afew years back, while working as a writer for our sister publication Country Guide, I spoke at some length with Saskatchewan-based agriculture economist Murray Fulton, about how farm policy is typically set in Canada. He told me that what tends to happen is something he called “punctuated equilibrium” — which is to say that Canadian
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Keeping PEDv out

Plus, restoring prison farms to be studied

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Is it a coincidence that three Manitoba hog operations have experienced outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) within weeks after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reinstated protocols for washing trucks returning from the U.S.? We think not. During the height of the PEDv outbreak in the U.S. two years ago, the CFIA suspended a
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: A fine balance

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Few would doubt the special nature of the agriculture industry. After all, it’s the only sector I can think of that rates its own census, and one of the very few which has its own federal and provincial governmental departments. There are programs such as AgriStability and provincial crop insurance and special dispensation in a
Editorial: Stepping back
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Stepping back

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I first heard the words Manitoba Co-operator in the mid-1960s, when my father Bill Morriss, a Free Press reporter at the time, came home wondering why the editor kept offering him a job. “What do I know about farming?” Not much, but then editor Q.H. Martinson was looking for a successor, and he wanted a good newspaperman,
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: A voice for you

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One of the greatest issues you face as a farmer in the coming years is going to be ensuring you have a voice in the public realm. Increasingly, there are people who have opinions about the way you farm and that’s not going to change. You can attempt to educate them about what you do
Editorial: What’s in a name?
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: What’s in a name?

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The newly elected Pallister government wasted little time putting its stamp on government in this province. Almost as fast as you can say Ralph Eichler, the provincial department responsible for agriculture got a new name this month: Manitoba Department of Agriculture (MDA). It has a nice simple ring to it. But it also reflects a
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Editorial: Stuck in time

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Is it time for a fundamental rethink of Canada’s agriculture trade policy? That simple question is, these days, tantamount to heresy in the agriculture sector, long preoccupied with trade issues. However, a new policy note from the independent research group Agri-Food Economic Systems in Guelph, Ontario, suggests it might be worth asking. The research team,

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