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Caution: Reforms Packaged Under Pressure

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The new “Product of Canada” guidelines came into effect on Dec. 31, 2008 and have been published as the new paragraph 4.19 in the Guide to Food Labelling: “a food product may claim ‘Product of Canada’ when all or virtually all major ingredients, processing and labour used to make the food product are Canadian.” The
Livestock, Opinion

Horse Industry Needs To Evolve

Carol Thomas (Stop Importing Slaughter Horses, July 1 Manitoba Co-operator) suggests she raises horses for pleasure, showing and driving, yet she has no management plan for her crippled, sick and old stock. Instead she would rather choose slaughter versus euthanasia. This indicates she’s in favour of any solution as long as it makes her money
Hogs, Opinion, Poultry

Letters – for Jul. 8, 2010

Urban chickens a healthier option I was very interested by the article “Winnipeg group seeks backyard chicken option” (Manitoba Co-operator June 18, 2010). I am actually surprised that there are not more urban and rural people interested in raising their own chickens. There are tremendous benefits, such as much healthier eggs, free from antibiotics and
Opinion

Shoot, But Don’t Slaughter

If letter writer Carol Thomas (Stop Importing Slaughter Horses, July 1 Manitoba Co-operator) would like my advice on what to do with her old, lame, or sick horses, I would suggest she have them humanely euthanized. If that’s not something she can afford then, yes, I would prefer to see them take a bullet in
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Crop Dollars Washed Away

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What’s the price tag to the crops sector from this record rainfall spring? Great question, but it’s very difficult to answer. Flooding damage to homes, businesses and roads will gradually be assessed with a high degree of accuracy. Replacement values can be estimated. You can’t simply rebuild a crop that’s been lost. Now that the
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Beef Checkoff To NCBA: Drop Dead

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“NCBA just doesn’t get it.” In a toughly worded statement June 22, the executive committee of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, the group created by Congress to collect and oversee the $1-per-head beef checkoff, served notice that it strongly backed the independence of the Federation of State Beef Councils in the ongoing debate over the checkoff’s
Cereals, Opinion

Demand A Costing Review Of Railway Grain Transportation

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Disbelief. Followed by frustration and, we hope, the desire to do something about it. That is response many western grain farmers are likely to feel upon receiving news that they may have greatly overpaid the railway companies to ship their product. Railway earnings for handling grain are the focus of a new study by respected
Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Stop importing slaughter horses

I strongly disagree with the letter from Cathy Halbesma “Horses, not breeders, need protection” in the June 17 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator. We believe in the humane treatment of all types of animals in the slaughterhouse. What we disagree with is the Americans dumping their slaughter horses onto our market. When you raise horses
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Small Growers Can Still Vote

I would like to respond to Henry Neufeld’s letter to the editor in the June 16th issue of The Manitoba Co-operator. Neufeld is confused about Bill C-27 and its changes for the future operation of the CWB. The bill is short and has two main provisions; that producers will receive their payments faster, and a
Opinion

Celebrating Canada

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Canadians are masters of understatement when it comes to celebrating our national pride. Whereas our neighbours to the south belt out the Star Spangled Banner at every opportunity, the national anthem at Canadian events is usually performed, rather than participated in. Everyone but the singer stands awkwardly at attention, some of us humming and only

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