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Editorial: A place of refuge

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The news, including our own front page story this week, is full of stories these days about the preparations for and arrival of Canada’s newest citizens, many of them refugees from wartorn Syria. The stories are heartwarming and hopeful: Toronto schoolchildren learning to sing a welcome song in Arabic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau personally greeting
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Editorial: Conservation connections

Thoughts on the Manitoba Conservation Districts Association annual convention

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The kids were heading for their buses as I arrived at the 40th Manitoba Conservation Districts Association (MCDA) annual convention in Brandon last week, just in time to help hand out plaques to the district award winners. There were hundreds of them, students brought in for the day by the association with support from community
Editorial: GHG-reduction policy not a bad deal
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Editorial: GHG-reduction policy not a bad deal

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The chart in last week’s Winnipeg Free Press article on the Manitoba government’s new policy to reduce greenhouse gas neatly illustrated some of the interesting but complex implications for agriculture. It listed Manitoba’s top GHG-producing facilities, and No. 1 by a wide margin is the Koch nitrogen fertilizer plant at Brandon. The No. 2 emitter
Editorial: Posturing or reality?
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Editorial: Posturing or reality?

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Pssst! Want to buy a port? It comes with your very own railroad. Take your time. Think about it. We don’t expect a bidding war. In the wake of its smallest shipping season in recent history, there are now reports that Colorado-based OmniTrax wants to sell the Port of Churchill and the rail line that
Editorial: Unmuzzling the civil service
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Editorial: Unmuzzling the civil service

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The mainstream media has been having a field day over the newly reacquired ability of Environment Canada’s “rock snot” scientist to speak to the press about his work. Max Bothwell, who has published multiple studies on the freshwater algae and what makes it grow, became somewhat of a poster boy for the federal scientists affected
Opinion: Here we go again
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Opinion: Here we go again

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First, the bad news. Farmers around the world did a great job last year. The good news? Farmers around the world did a great job last year. Such is the unfortunate reality of the grain market. As speakers at last week’s Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg said, the world is “awash with grain,” which
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Editorial: Just the numbers

'Then' and 'now' statistical figures in the world of agriculture

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World average wheat yield 2015 (bushels per acre): 48.4 U.S. 43.6 EU 86.5 Ukraine 57.4 Uzbekistan 76.4 Canada 40.3 Percentage increase in five-year average Prairie canola yields, 2005-09 to 2010-14: 5.9 For spring wheat: 15.6 Average per capita U.S. meat consumption, 1965, ounces per day: 7.8 In 2015: 9.34 USDA recommended daily consumption for men
Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
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Editorial: Knocking on new doors in Ottawa

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Aside from the difference in political stripe, the new federal government means quite a change for western farmers. You may or may not have agreed with their policies, but at least the Conservatives had plenty of MPs who knew how to run a swather, sort cattle or fill out an AgriStability form. There are some
Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: An inconvenient truth

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U.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers recently released the results of a study they commissioned on how much farm supports in four key markets are costing U.S. farmers. The premise behind the analysis, conducted by Iowa State University economists, is that countries such as Brazil, India, Turkey and China are depriving
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Editorial: A terrible loss

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The deaths of the Bott sisters from Withrow, Alta., last week touched all of us. We extend our deepest sympathies to their family and all who knew them. The tragedy has focused attention on farm safety, particularly how dangerous the farmyard can be for young children. From some quarters of the farming community has come

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