Canada is clinging to a rules-based international trade system: The problem is, that system doesn’t seem to be carrying as much weight.
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Is Canada playing the right game on trade?
The rules-based international trade system only works if everyone's willing to play by the rules: That's feeling less and less true
Public trust in food is harder to find
Views on the food system have become more cynical since the pandemic, and since inflation shot food prices into the stratosphere
Views on the food system have become more cynical since the pandemic, and since inflation shot food prices into the stratosphere. Farmers should be concerned.
Is the biofuel market cooked?
A flood of cheap imported feedstocks like used cooking oil from China is undermining growth in the U.S. biofuel market for crops like canola and soybeans
A flood of cheap imported feedstocks like used cooking oil from China is undermining growth in the U.S. biofuel market for crops like canola and soybeans.
The stories behind seeded acreage stats
Seeded acreage estimates offer insight to farmer decision-making philosophy
Statistics Canada's seeded acreage estimates offer insight to farmer decision-making philosophy.
We need to talk about resiliency
Metaphorical and actual storm clouds punctuate resiliency conversation
Volatile weather over farm fields in Manitoba punctuates conversation around resiliency both on farm and in policy-making halls of government.
Soil: the great unifier
Senate soil report highlights shifting focus on core issues
Senate report, "Critical Ground: why soil is essential to Canada's economic, environmental, human and social health," marks a pivotal shift in how we value soil and soil health.
Editor’s Take: Reflection key to ag labour challenges
Agriculture has to face its workplace shortfalls.
Editorial: Do you know your cybersecurity risk?
Farms and agricultural businesses are in danger, and most don’t know the extent of their problem. As reporter Janelle Rudolph notes in our front-page story in the May 30 issue of the Co-operator, Canadian producers, agribusinesses and farm groups have all felt the sting of a cyberattack within the past few years. Technology and digital
Editorial: The bill’s coming for bad roads
It’s been a good spring for bad road stories. To be fair, it’s prime time for it — the season of frost boils, weight restrictions and ruts from vehicles and machinery on gravel roads that are still firming up. Even by the standards of spring, though, it feels like it’s been hard to drive any
Editorial: Grain business consolidation and concentration
Press releases are often notable because of what they don’t say. Then again, sometimes they unintentionally speak volumes. For example, consider the official statements coming from the Glencore team related to their role in the continuing consolidation and concentration of the grain handling business in Canada. In 2012, when Glencore announced it was acquiring Viterra,
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