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Editor’s Take: In praise of boredom
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: In praise of boredom

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It would be fair to describe the tone of farmers at this year’s Ag Days as ‘cautiously optimistic.’ Crop prices are down — but not out. And input prices are a mixed bag, according to analysts speaking at the event. They’re expecting urea prices to stay strong over the winter and into spring, but ammonia
Ranchers reliant on Crown land know exactly what leaseholders were promised and when they were promised it.
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Editorial: Much ado about nothing

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The Co-operator’s late 2023 interview with Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn included a carrot for forage Crown land leaseholders. He said there would be new announcements in the New Year. On Jan. 2, a press release arrived in media inboxes. Crown land changes were now in effect, it said, including that: Producers “felt abandoned by
“Farmers today can produce two times as much with the same level of inputs,” says a new FCC report.
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Editorial: Production, productivity and climate change

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A tantalizing report from Farm Credit Canada recently estimated the riches that would flow if the productivity growth of the decades leading into the 21st century were to return. “Assuming the Canadian agriculture industry returns productivity growth to the plateau we recorded two decades ago, this would add as much as $30 billion in net
Editorial: The proxy war of Bill C-234
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Editorial: The proxy war of Bill C-234

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Good governance is often boring to watch from the outside. If things ever become entertaining, something has usually gone off the rails. Boring is not the word I’d use to describe Bill C-234’s push to clear Parliament in the last few weeks. On Dec. 7 and 8, drama around the bill had spilled back into
Canada can produce its own sugar. But it doesn’t.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Note: Sugar shortage makes for sticky business

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How can a strike involving 138 workers at a single refining operation in Vancouver affect the availability of sugar for 11 million Canadians in the four western provinces — and what does this situation tell us about our national food system as a whole? It certainly suggests that our sweet tooth has become too dependent
Some ag sectors will probably be less than kind toward a new film that looks at modern agricultural practices.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Finding ‘Common Ground’

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This year’s Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association Regenerative Ag Conference had something different on the schedule — a movie night. The association was granted Manitoba’s first screening of the documentary “Common Ground,” a follow up to “Kiss the Ground,” which debuted on Netflix in 2020. Like that one, “Common Ground” marketed itself as a hopeful
It’s amazing to think that the work of two plant breeders at publicly funded universities transformed a machine lubricant into an edible oil.
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Editor’s Take: Setting research priorities a complex puzzle

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[UPDATED: Nov. 24, 2023] It’s often observed that from tiny acorns, mighty oaks grow. Nowhere in the western Canadian agriculture scene is this truer than in the canola sector. When one pauses to reflect, one can only marvel at what has happened. A relatively obscure crop, grown largely as a machine lubricant, was transformed into one of
‘As urban populations cry for housing, there’s a long list of rural communities that have watched their populations shrink for decades.’ – Alexis Stockford.
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Editorial: The rural housing solution

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Canada’s housing crisis is getting a lot of attention. In September, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre introduced a private members bill that would tie the infrastructure funding the federal government provides to municipalities to a stated threshold of extra homes built in that municipality per year. On Nov. 7, federal Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves
How data is compiled, analyzed and managed serves to magnify its impacts, be they good or bad.
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Editor’s Take: The dark side of data sharing

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Data is a big part of our lives. It is built into the cell phone plan we pay for every month, our credit score and every part of every supply chain that brings us the things we use and consume. It can be used to spot patterns, optimize operations, save money and create better end
Much of our past investment in water management infrastructure has been dedicated to either keeping water at bay or getting rid of it as quickly as possible.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Division or unity on water?

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Wab Kinew wouldn’t be the first Manitoba premier who came into office vowing to represent all Manitobans or to preach the politics of unity. However, he may be looking at a steeper slope. He comes into office as post-pandemic discord has created deep societal polarization and faces a quagmire of intersecting crises, including the escalating

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