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Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Editorial: Farmers shouldn’t get mad, they should get organized

Present regulatory system doesn't allow Canadian farmers' voice to be heard

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It will be bitterly disappointing to many farmers that the Canadian Transportation Agency chose to reject a level-of-service complaint filed by the Canola Growers of Canada over last winter’s rail service. The Canola Growers’ level-of-service complaint was the one opportunity farmers had to extract some compensation for their losses in last winter’s debacle, even if
Opinion

Editorial: the ‘wicked problem’ of herbicide-resistant weeds

It's not only a problem of chemistry, but human behaviour itself

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When I first tuned into a recent summit on herbicide resistance being broadcast live by webinar from Washington, D.C., my first thought was that I had virtually stumbled into the wrong conference. The keynote speaker wasn’t a weed scientist. He is a sociologist. But as I listened, it became clear this speaker, and the ones
Beef products at a Japanese market.
Beef cattle, Hogs, Markets, Opinion

Editorial: Customers, not competitors, come first

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Is there anyone out there who thinks it’s a good thing for Canadian agricultural representatives to join with their competition from other countries to criticize their best customers? The answer is almost certainly no, but on the other hand we didn’t hear any objections when the Canadian Pork Council did exactly that earlier this month.
The image in question that mistakenly referred to these threshermen as "shoveling hay" instead of "pitching sheaves." Our apologies for the error.
Opinion

Editorial: Hay there!

Telling your stories in the big, broad world of agriculture

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Several readers called in about our reference last week to “shovelling hay” into a threshing machine in our front-page cutline. The general consensus was as a farm paper, we should know better. And we do, most of the time. Of course, you don’t shovel hay into a threshing machine. You pitch in the sheaves. However,
Editorial: The waiting game
Crops, Opinion

Editorial: The waiting game

Support is greatly needed for farmers affected by flooding, but what will it be and when?

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“May the odds be forever in your favour” is a memorable quote from the The Hunger Games, a popular book trilogy later made into movies. Although it is voiced as a cheery sendoff into competition, the irony is that the child protagonists face unspeakably cruel odds, pitted against one another in a fight-to-the-finish match from
Manitoba's potato industry faces a fundamental shift in demand for french fries.
Opinion

Editorial: A growth strategy

A strategy for Manitoba's processing sector must focus on needs of all players

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Researchers with the Rural Development Institute, which is affiliated with Brandon University, recently set out to answer a seemingly simple question: how big might the Manitoba food processing and beverage industry be in 2020? The answer they came up with suggests a better question might have been — how small? After crunching the numbers and
Editorial: Trends and anomalies
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Editorial: Trends and anomalies

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It’s easy to get a little giddy when things go much better than expected. For example, take last year’s bin buster of a crop. By any measure, it was an astounding production feat. Western Canadian farmers shattered all previous records on most major crops, growing a whopping 76 million tonnes, 50 per cent higher than
Telling the story of grass
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Telling the story of grass

Is the beef industry ready – and willing – to use extra forage if more producers add it to their rotation?

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If you’re looking for proof that there is no such thing as bad publicity, beef may be a good example. For years it’s been painted as a public health and environmental villain, and recently there were more reports on how bovine frontal and rearward methane emissions are a major source of climate-altering greenhouse gas. All
Editorial: The third option
Forages, Opinion

Editorial: The third option

Trials have shown adding a perennial forage to your crop rotation can be effective weed control

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At a time when soil erosion is recognized as one of the biggest threats to the world’s ability to continue feeding itself, it’s disturbing to see weed scientists advising tillage to address invading “superweeds.” There is no question that addressing the lengthening list of weeds that have developed resistance to glyphosate must be a top
Editorial: Who is confused? How consumers view agriculture
Opinion

Editorial: Who is confused? How consumers view agriculture

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The final report to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada from a series of consumer focus groups it commissioned last year is enlightening, but not because of what it tells us about how domestic customers view this country’s agriculture sector. Rather it speaks volumes about the people asking the questions. The final report “Modern agriculture and agricultural

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