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A Farmer’s Friend Is Lost

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Many will mourn the passing of John Harapiak, who succumbed last week to cancer. The highly respected agronomist spent more than 40 years of his life serving western Canadian farmers through his work in soil fertility research and extension. Dubbed an “agricultural icon” by his colleagues, he was best known for his steadfast commitment to
Opinion

Grain Producers Eager To Play Ball

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Forgive the corny analogy, but in many ways, Crop Production Week and the corresponding Western Canadian Crop Production Show can be likened to a baseball game. Thousands of producers flock to the trade shows and to the meetings during early January just like the crowds gather for a ball game. The game has nine innings.
Opinion

Letters – for Jan. 20, 2011

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A report worth reading In the Jan. 13 issue of the Co-operator,Doug Faller, policy manager for the Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan, gives a comprehensive report on his take of the “Interim Report on the Rail Freight Service Review.” This report is readily found by putting this preceding sentence into your computer search engine. You will
Crops, Forages, Opinion

Make Hay When The Sun Shines — Or Not

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Why make hay? At first blush, the answer to the question U.S. grazing consultant put to producers attending the recent Manitoba Grazing School was so obvious a teenager could answer it. Well duh – we make hay to feed livestock through the winter (stupid.) Nobody really thinks about it, other than to manage the mechanics
Beef cattle, Opinion

New Grading Technology Is In Place But Not In Use

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Digital cameras get CFIA approval for beef grading” was the announcement in mid-October 2010. So where are we today? Despite the fact that the three largest slaughter facilities in Canada have the technology installed, they have yet to request to use it to facilitate grade assessment. No doubt it is coming, but which packer will
Opinion

Railway Reform Impeded By Preconceived Bias

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In the Interim Report (October 2010), the Rail Freight Service Review Panel provides a clear, consistent, and convincing analysis of the lack of competition in the rail transportation industry and the preponderance of power possessed by the railways in the marketplace. When the panel applied the Competition Bureau’s methodology to determine if there was competition
Opinion

Letters – for Jan. 13, 2011

The two perennial subjects that always surface, eventually without any seeming resolution, are once again front and centre on your front page, namely, the revenue cap for moving grain and funding for the Canadian Grain Commission. Both of these are fundamental to the functioning of a viable agricultural sector. What is required is a completely
Opinion

Weather 2010 — Cats And Doggerel

Yes, it’s that time again, the annual occasion When we indulge in a bit of agricultural di-verse-ification In badly rhymed couplets, to see that if we can’t Reflect on the year’s stories that seemed most significant Some years that’s hard, especially when trying to rhyme it This year it’s not – the story for sure
Opinion

Government Can’t Do Much More Against Scary Stories

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Every time we get a recall of imported food we have another round of huffing and puffing that we’re not doing enough to protect Canadians; the media spend a day or two pushing scary stories about the awful dangers of imported food. The most recent alarm originated from the release of an internal Canadian Food
Opinion

Environment And Agriculture: Talking The Talk Or Walking The Walk

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The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Lake Winnipeg Basin Summit has come and gone, and I think most participants would agree that it was a resounding success. To quote IISD director Hank Venema, “This summit has moved us closer to a unified effort under the umbrella leadership of IISD.” The issues surrounding the degraded level

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