With all due respect, I would suggest that John De Pape is the one who needs to check his facts (Manitoba Co-operator Feb. 3). My observations in the Jan. 6Manitoba Co-operatorare based on my direct experiences and the experiences
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De Pape Misses The Point
Delaying The Drainage
As Manitoba braces for what could be another Flood of the Century a mere 14 years after the last one, the calls are mounting across the province for governments to do something about this province’s ongoing and seasonal excess moisture situation. It doesn’t help that Manitoba has had significant floods in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009
Truth In Labelling
When a nearby national grocery chain hosted a beef sale last summer, this carnivore grabbed his chequebook and motored to the store’s meatcase as fast as the Exploder’s worn wheel bearings allowed. I was greeted with a ruby wave of shrink-wrapped beef loins sporting stickers that announced their Angus origins. Nowhere, however, could I find
CWB Director Has His Facts Wrong
In the Jan. 6 issueManitoba Co-operator,Canadian Wheat Board-elected director Bill Woods takes aim at the railways for what he calls “slick accounting.” Unfortunately, Woods has his facts wrong, which makes his whole argument meaningless. The annual review of regulated rail rates and charges showed that the revenue of CN and CP came in under the
Letters – for Feb. 3, 2011
I am writing you with reference to the Jan. 27 announcement of an agreement in principle between Manitoba and Saskatchewan regarding transfer of flood waters from Fishing Lake in Saskatchewan into the Upper Assiniboine River Basin. A number of assurances have been given with regard to this flow that I believe are inaccurate as they
Planet Needs To Heal
Thank you for your article Jan. 27 by Ron Friesen, reporting on Thomas Fisher’s warnings “World teetering on environmental catastrophe.” I also believe we must change our ways and take much better care of our one and only planet. I do not agree that people are promoting fear-mongering agendas about climate change, nor are they
The Dirt On Farmland Ownership
Would you rather put up $800 to make $200 (and get a property tax bill), or put up $60 to make $200? It’s a simple question. But the answer is riddled with complexity. Nevertheless, it’s being dangled in front of farmers these days by Brad Farquhar, manager of Assiniboia Farmland, a limited partnership that has
Battle For Acres
It wasn’t many years ago when the grain market could be categorized as the good, the bad and the ugly with most commodities in the last two categories. Based on the market outlook presentations at the recent Crop Production Week in Saskatoon, the appropriate categories for 2011 are not so good, good and really good.
One Plan, Three Men And 50 Years
When Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry and Fred Kirschenmann get together, conversation, laughter and ideas flow. Other than a closeness in age, the three appear to have little in common. Jackson is a PhD plant breeder and founder, in 1976, of The Land Institute, a Salina, Kansas non-profit organization dedicated to finding sustainable solutions to food’s
Ethanol And Oil Subsidies: Competing Claims And Self-Justification
Acommon question we hear when we tell people that we are agricultural policy analysts is “Well, whaddya think about ethanol subsidies?” That question becomes critically important as the blenders’ credit, the ethanol import tariff and the small producers’ tax credit face a deadline of December 31, 2010 for renewal by a lame-duck Congress. Todd Neeley,
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
