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Oilseeds, Opinion, Weather

Change is constant

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The next time you have an hour or two to spare, find your way to the National Centre for Livestock and Environment’s website and download a paper called: Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050. But be forewarned, while reading through it doesn’t leave one with any overriding sense of panic, neither does it leave one feeling
Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Editorial: Everybody is responsible

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The livestock industry in the Netherlands has had to make a lot of changes to comply with growing public pressure for more environmentally sustainable and humane practices. But it hasn’t had to do it alone. That fact was inescapable during a recent whirlwind tour of Netherlands livestock operations by a Canadian delegation, courtesy of the
Weyburn Inland Terminal's board plans to seek a ''definitive transaction agreement'' to sell the company to an as-yet unnamed buyer. (WIT.ca)
Opinion

Editorial: Losing more farmer ownership

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One almost hesitates to say the words “wheat board” these days, as regardless of how you felt about the pros or cons of the single desk, you’re probably relieved that you don’t have to fight about it anymore. And regardless of how you felt about it, the old board is never coming back. But while
Opinion

Getting the mail — and much, much more

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Tucked away in various corners of this old house are bundles of letters, held together by elastic bands or stuffed into a big envelope. One of those bundles dates back more than 60 years. It was exchanges between two young people working in different communities the year before they married. That bundle of letters survived
News & Opinion, Opinion

Editorial: Keeping the farm organizations in line

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“Hardly a day goes by” may be an overused phrase, but not when it comes to the frequency of news releases from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — we received 13 for the month of November. There’s nothing wrong with governments communicating with citizens, and some of the releases are pure business, such as brief notices
Opinion

Is “adequate” good enough?

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is doing his best to put a brave face on what appears to be a looming train wreck when it comes to getting this year’s crop to market. While rail movement of 5,000 to 5,500 cars per week to export ports is high by historical standards, grain companies are reporting a
Oilseeds, Opinion

Now that’s value added

We always appreciate it when readers take the time to write to us, even if you don’t agree with the story or opinion piece in question, and especially when you are pointing out an error. So when a reader emailed the Co-operator to question the prices quoted in a story we carried about research showing
Opinion

The value of trees

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On bitterly cold and blustery winter days on the farm, there wasn’t much by way of trees to block our view of those fiery red sunsets framed by sundogs over the drifting snow. It’s a view I am glad I experienced. But as beautiful as it was, it’s not a view I miss. We grew
Oilseeds, Opinion

The rise of Twitter and other modern mysteries

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One of the great mysteries of the modern world has to be how a company like Twitter, a micro-blogging medium built around delivering short bursts of inconsequential information, can attract a value of $25 billion in its initial stock offering when the company hasn’t turned a profit since it was formed seven years ago —
Opinion

As we remember…

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I don’t know a lot about my grandfather’s experiences as a sergeant with the horse brigade in the First World War. He didn’t talk about it with us; I doubt he talked about it much to anyone. It just wasn’t done in those days. I do know that while he never fought in the trenches,

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