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Letters – for Aug. 5, 2010

Not such a big deal As I ponder whether or not I’ll be farming next year, I am also reviewing the terms and conditions of the 2010 Canada- Manitoba Excess Moisture Assistance program. Are we flooded a bit? This is July 21 and we don’t have a bale yet to feed my 200 cows this
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Controversial Wheat Comes To An Official End – for Aug. 5, 2010

Periodically, the Prairie grain industry faces controversy when wheat growers find varieties which offer apparent agronomic benefits, but with quality characteristics that don’t fit official classes. The deregistration of the wheat variety Garnet earlier last month reminds that such controversies are not new. Licensing of Garnet prompted national political discussion in the 1920s and 1930s.
Opinion

Advice For Young Farmers – for Jul. 29, 2010

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The opinion is of ten expressed that young people don’t want to farm. That isn’t really the case. Farming appeals to a lot of young people, but they usually don’t have the capital available to start even a modest operation or else they’ve examined the financial returns and aren’t willing to accept the risk. “There
Opinion

End Of An Era – for Jul. 29, 2010

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It was dry in the late 1980s, and farmers were told by the herbicide manufacturer that’s why their favoured herbicide – trifluralin (Treflan) – wasn’t doing its job. But two public extension workers in Manitoba, the late Ian Morrison, a weed scientist with the University of Manitoba, and Barry Todd with the soils and crops
Opinion

Letters – for Jul. 29, 2010

When I hear the words “natural ham” on a TV commercial, images of small numbers of pigs rooting in straw and green pastures, snoring under the shade of a tree on a warm summer day, cooling off in a wallow or romping around playing tag comes to mind. Images of my family’s farm. Healthy, happy
Opinion

Honouring The Builders

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR It’s always a pleasure to drive to Portage for the annual induction ceremony for the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame, especially since it’s around berry season in mid-July and you can head home with a supply of strawberries and saskatoons from roadside stands along the way. In recent years the crowds
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

New Game, New Rules

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Watching Big Pork and Big Beef respond to proposed USDA rules to “clarify conduct that violates the P&S (Packers and Stockyards) Act” is like watching Wall Street bankers: they find it impossible to pull their hands out of your pockets long enough to pull themselves out of the mess they’ve made. That’s a good explanation
Opinion

Bipole III Will Have Little Effect On Farmland

The NDP’s commitment to providing clean, reliable and affordable power to Manitobans while building Manitoba Hydro’s export relationships and protecting pristine boreal forest is being met by the development of Bipole III on the west side of Lake Manitoba. Contrary to Ian Wishart’s letter to the editor in the July 15th edition of the Manitoba
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Farm Aid Highly Political

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Why should governments top up crop insurance coverage in a year where there’s a widespread disaster when they wouldn’t likely have the same response if the problem was regional? Amazingly, last week’s annual meeting of federal and provincial agriculture ministers concluded with a detailed program announcement for flooded Prairie farmland. Rarely do governments act so

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