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Letters – for Nov. 11, 2010

Ron Doering, former head of CFIA, suggests in the Nov. 4 Manitoba Co-operatorthat the reason that there are almost no Canadian agri-food products in grocery stores in China is simply because we are too timid to grasp this golden opportunity. Solution: more trade missions, more marketing effort in China. His views will go over well
Opinion

Non-Democratic Party Insults Landowners

My wife and I along with over 100 other farmers and landowners had a crash course on how democracy works within the walls of the Manitoba legislature under the NDP regime. We attended a legislative committee meeting regarding Manitoba Hydro projects on Oct. 25. Finance Minister Rosanne Wowchuk and other NDP committee members argued for
Opinion

Mark Your Ballots Alphabetically

My compliments to the Manitoba Co-operatorfor the timely coverage (Aug. 26 and Sept. 16) of the 2010 District 9 CWB director candidates highlighting their single-desk position. I would rank Gary Draper, John Sandborn, and Ernie Sirski alphabetically 1, 2, 3. Here’s why. Four companies trade 80 per cent of the world’s grain. Without a farmer-controlled
Opinion

Why Don’t The Chinese Eat Canadian Food?

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A big question in the news these days has been whether the Chinese will buy part or all of Saskatchewan’s PotashCorp. Underlying this is the recognition that China has a huge problem coming at it: how to feed itself. With little arable land and a growing middle class – estimated by some to be 700
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Moving On

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It’s been seven long years since Canada’s beef industry was brought to its knees by the discovery of a BSE-infected cow in Alberta. A lot of cattle have passed through the ring since, with most fetching prices that make it hard to be excited about this industry’s future. With their equity decimated by the lost
Opinion

Letters – for Nov. 4, 2010

Manitoba Hydro is moving forward with the Bipole III project to protect the reliability of Manitoba’s power supply and to expand our export capacity. The Bipole III transmission line requires the construction of new converter stations at the start and finish of the line: the Keewatinoow Station in the north and the Riel Station next
Cereals, Opinion

Commodities Lend Themselves To Single-Desk Selling

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You have to admire politicians who set aside long-held beliefs when they are confronted with the reality of how the world works. Reality sets in once they arrive in government and are responsible to more than just their supporters. Good examples are former Alberta Conservative premier Peter Lougheed and Saskatchewan’s Premier Brad Wall. Both were
Opinion

Managing Excess Water Should Be About More Than Drainage

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As we pack the machinery away in the back of the shed for winter, I can’t help but think there is one tool that almost every farmer has stored away somewhere in the bottom of his tool box. Known as the crescent wrench (often with several other expletives), it’s the tool that nobody wants to
Beef cattle, Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Cows Are A Tough Business

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With the fall calf run underway, cow-calf producers are rejoicing over this year’s dramatic improvement in prices. They have been many years with heavy losses and lots of producers have said “to heck with it all” and have sold off their herds. Unfortunately, the big improvement in prices doesn’t necessarily mean that profitability has arrived.
Cereals, Opinion

“Everything” Is Not On The Table

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Hunger that emerged as a side-effect of war left a lasting mark on European culture – one that we would do well to remember in the context of the much-heralded negotiations towards a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union. Canadian and European negotiators have been working towards a bilateral

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