The private elevator companies and the railways are expecting more revenue at the expense of the farmers’ income if Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz destroys our Canadian Wheat Board. The power of price negotiation for farmers is
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Open Letter To CWB Directors
Shhh… Don’t Tell The Canola Council
We want to believe those promises of good things to come Western Canada’s way once the Canadian Wheat Board is outa’ the way. We really do. According to Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz, the CWB monopoly is weakening our clout in world wheat and barley trade. “What was once Canada’s signature crop has fallen behind,”
Australia Offers Grain Research Model For The Prairies
Excerpts from the agriculture section of the Moving Alberta Forward report by the Alberta Competitiveness Council. It refers to the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation, which collects a levy of .99 per cent from growers of 25 crops, with contributions matched by the national government. The Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation experience offers
Wetland Drainage Is The Hidden Culprit Behind This Year’s Flood
It is Sunday, June 26, exactly 71 days since the Pipestone Creek reached flood stage. The Pipestone Creek originates south of Whitewood, Sask. and empties into Oak Lake, Man. This is not news to locals, but for those of you from other parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, you may not know its geographic location. The
Letters – for Jul. 14, 2011
Why would strictly grain, especially canola growers, be concerned over Bill 46, the Save Lake Winnipeg Act and the phosphorus regulation? Spreading nutrients in winter significantly increases their movement into waterways during spring thaw and flood events in Manitoba. Before 75 per cent of wetlands had been destroyed in agro- Manitoba, most excess nutrients were
Downstream Misery Has Lots Of Company
The June 2 story regarding the water problems caused by government in the Shellmouth Dam area has moved me to write my first letter to any publication. Although we are in the Pembina Valley, our problems with water management are
Letters – for Jul. 7, 2011
Manitoba should be proud Manitobans have a big reason to celebrate. On June 16, we became the first province in Canada to pass a life-saving law requiring public access to AEDs (automated external defibrillators). The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba (HSFM) congratulates the provincial government and all the parties involved for passing Bill 20,
Simple Solutions To The Food Challenge
Last month a milestone was marked in the history of world agriculture when the bovine disease rinderpest was officially declared eradicated. Though unknown in North America, rinderpest or “cattle plague” has been a devastating killer of cattle and wildlife for millennia in Europe, Africa and Asia. After smallpox, it’s only the second disease in history
A Spring We Would Rather Forget
It must be summer. They show up like visiting relatives on the doorstep and they don’t know when to leave. Wood ticks, mosquitoes and black flies that think the Parklands have just moved down to the international border. Adding injury to the insult of the spring that never really happened, farmers across the province have
Co-Operator Reporter Says Goodbye
One of my first assignments after arriving at theCo-operatorin July 1988 was a story about Manitoba joining the national beef tripartite stabilization program. It was the biggest thing to hit the province’s cattle industry in years and we were on deadline. I remember sitting at my desk staring at a blank computer screen with the
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
