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Doug Wray is among several Alberta cattle producers experimenting with adding a variety of forages to feed his cattle. The mix adds important nutrients to the cattle’s diet, but also increases the diversity on the land.
Forages, Opinion

Editorial: Increasing your farming options

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Even in June, you could feel a drought in the making as we tramped across the bone-dry paddocks of Doug Wray’s ranch north of Calgary. Far from the lush, succulent feel of the pastures here in Manitoba, the grasses there rustled and crunched underfoot. Conditions haven’t improved — in fact, the situation out west has
U.S. Capitol Hill senate building
Livestock, Opinion

Editorial: COOL fight not over yet

U.S. legislators will soon vote to repeal, but how it will all play out remains to be clear

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The WTO has made its final-final decision in Canada’s favour on U.S. labelling laws. It now appears that U.S. legislators in the House of Representatives will vote next month on a bill to repeal it. But Canada’s COOL fight isn’t over. Support for repealing the legislation is less secure from the U.S. Senate where the
cwb sign outside building
Crops, Editorial

Editorial: The farmers’ (equity) trust in the CWB

The sale of the CWB to Global Grain Group leaves many new questions for Prairie farmers

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The farmers’ equity component is perhaps the most puzzling aspect of last week’s announcement that CWB has been sold. We can see the advantages to the Harper government of getting the company off its books. Moving the western Canadian grain-marketing system to an open market was an election promise that came with baggage; the administration
biofuel facility
Crops, Opinion

Editorial: Black swan?

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Among the many topics in the science news releases last week was one from the University of East Anglia in the U.K. “A new study pinpoints five strains of yeast capable of turning agricultural byproducts, such as straw, sawdust and corncobs, into bioethanol — a well-known alcohol-based biofuel,” the release said. We’ve seen similar news
soil
Crops, Opinion

Editorial: They brought in plows?

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When a consortium of Canadian non-government organizations funded by the Canadian government arrived in the Benishangul-Gumuz state in Western Ethiopia five years ago, their primary goal was to help smallholder farmers boost productivity and food security. They came in with “modern” farming methods. In this context, that meant oxen and plows, showing farmers how to
pouring a chemical pesticide
Opinion

Editorial: Just follow the label

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How should farmers and the agricultural community react to news that a French agency has labelled glyphosate as “possibly carcinogenic”? We’ve already seen the battle of the competing press releases questioning the science. The usual anti-GMO suspects are no doubt having a heyday. Farmers, as usual, will be stuck in the middle. Rather than picking
Opinion

Editorial: Taking the bus — Malawi style

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I’ve done a lot of things with chicken in my life, mostly related to eating. But sharing a bus with one was a first. When taking the bus in rural Malawi there’s no telling who you might be travelling with. In a country where few can afford a car and one of the few luxuries
WTO in Geneva, Switzerland.
Beef cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Winning at the WTO for real

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Canadian livestock producers won something to crow about but little else in the latest WTO ruling to support their claim that the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling rules are unfair and discriminatory. The ruling was accompanied by the now-familiar volley of press releases from Canadian livestock and meat producers, and more sabre-rattling by federal politicians about
Restless farmers and the Prairie grain business
Cereals, Opinion

Restless farmers and the Prairie grain business

What goes around…

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While the percentage of grain buyers in heaven may only be slightly higher than that for railroaders, the stories that grandpa (or now great-grandpa) told about being shafted by the grain companies early in the last century may have been a trifle exaggerated. Then, as now, there was a bit of a “shoot the messenger”
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Opinion

Editorial: Getting out to vote

Eleven municipalities in rural Manitoba will have no election on Oct. 22

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Newcomers to rural communities are occasionally shocked at how longtime residents seemingly pay lip service to the democratic process in the name of “getting the job done.” You know the scene. There is sometimes no election at all at the annual meetings to elect an organization’s officers, simply an affirmation through a show of hands

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