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Cereals, Opinion

Avoid Hasty Response To Unseeded Acreage

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A s the seeding window closes, the unseeded acreage projections are staggering. But it’s difficult to know how governments should respond or if they should respond at all. The Canadian Wheat Board says Western Canada will have the lowest wheat acreage since 1971. Barley acreage is expected to be the lowest since 1965. Pressure is
Opinion

Not Such A Bad Idea

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR It seems that in U. S. households, there aren’t many battles over who gets the legs and thighs. Actually, the real problem seems to be that the fast-food chains don’t want their chicken fingers and McNuggets to be too tasty, or at least anything other than snow white. Hence the 90.59
Opinion

Feeding Our Habit

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Despite the millions of starving people in the world in the autumn of 2007, a looming expansion in use, and successive low-yielding crops, the market was telling us not to grow food. Longtime readers of my prognostications will note that I predicted the biofuel market would make grain prices more volatile, but not necessarily higher.
Livestock, Opinion

MCPA not ignoring producers in TB Alley

It was gratifying to see the articles in the June 10, 2010 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator. However, the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association was dismayed the editorial indicated industry associations have ignored producers. The association is writing to enlighten the Co-operator and its readers on the activities of the MCPA regarding TB and the Riding
Opinion

Big Ditches Versus Big Ideas

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Any farmer in Manitoba who is considering a crop insurance claim this year – and it looks like there could be quite a few – owes a debt of gratitude to the visionary leadership of Duff Roblin. As the province’s Progressive Conservative premier between 1958 to 1967, Roblin’s most notable legacy was of course “Duff’s
Opinion

Trade Talks Stuck In Past

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The surest way to confirm if anyone in Washington, D. C. is telling you the truth about trade is to watch their lips: if they move, they’re stretching the blanket one way or the other. Of course, not many lips have moved on trade last year or this year. Indeed, on the White House to-do
Opinion

Could Lagoons Be Used To Make Input Stew?

In regards to the issue of agricultural chemicals and fertilizers from farmers’ fields polluting our rivers, lakes and estuaries: a partial solution to the problem would involve landscaping a series of lagoons
Livestock, Opinion

Letters – for Jun. 17, 2010

Horses, not breeders, need protection With all due respect, I will continue to convince the government that action is needed to protect horses, not horse breeders as proposed by Betty Coulthard in the June 10 opinion article “Government action needed to protect horse breeders.” She wants compensation from the government for the losses she will
Opinion

Small Farmers Denied Vote

Legislation has been introduced to prevent small grain producers (delivering less than 40 tonnes to the CWB) from voting in board elections. MP David Anderson describes this as putting farmers first. The irony is very large farmers who never deliver any board grains to the CWB would still be eligible to receive a voting ballot.
Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Boar castration cuts into farmer profits

I am a Dutch pig truck driver. I was recently shown a copy of your article about pig castration, titled “Grocers are asked to switch to boar meat: Animal welfare activists target pig castration,” published in the Manitoba Co-operator March 25, 2010. My father is a pig trader and I have grown up in the

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