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“Chicken Feed” Sums Up U. S. Poultry Returns

By Alan Guebert June 10, 2010

In a morning session of the May 21 U. S. Department of Justice-Department of Agriculture workshop on ag and antitrust enforcement, Alabama poultry grower Garry Staples told officials he expected “retaliation” from the firm he grows chickens for because of his participation in that event’s discussion of poultry contracts. Not so, opined Assistant Attorney General

Livestock, Opinion, Other livestock

Government Action Needed To Protect Horse Breeders

By Betty Coulthard June 10, 2010

Professional horse breeders have been the most neglected group of agricultural producers by government. We have no representation and have for years been losing massive amounts for every foal produced. The horse industry in this country is entering crisis status. The policies and practices set in place have started breeders down the path to annihilation.

Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Boar castration cuts into farmer profits

June 10, 2010

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

Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

So-Called “Activists” Are Actually Realists

June 10, 2010

My name is Dr. Kees Scheepens, pig veterinarian and pig farmer from the Netherlands. I was in Manitoba March 25 to give a talk at the University of Manitoba on the phasing out of gestation crates. Now I am sent the article “Animal Welfare Activists Target Pig Castration,” which published in the March 25 issue

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

CWB voter eligibility changes justified

June 3, 2010

We welcome readers’comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases we cannot accept “open” letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. When your Conservative government introduced legislation

Cereals, Opinion

Responsibility Begins At Home

June 3, 2010

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR It’s painful to look at the images of birds and other wildlife dead or dying from being coated in oil from the U. S. Gulf oil blowout. That makes it easy to lay blame, as we’re now seeing in the U. S. The government is blaming British Petroleum for lax safety

Opinion

Telling It Like It Is In Agriculture

By Alex Binkley June 3, 2010

Canadian Federation of Agriculture vice-president Ron Bonnett got a rare opportunity on May 18 to explain what agriculture in the 21st century is really all about. And it wasn’t to an ordinary gathering of city folk, but a roomful of young people who could well shape the country’s future. A couple of hundred of the

Opinion

CFIA’s Powers Have A Long Reach

By Ronald Doering May 27, 2010

ACanadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) inspector stopped at a farm and talked with the old farmer: “I’m here to inspect your farm.” The old farmer replied, “You better not go in that field.” The CFIA inspector replied in a solemn tone, “You don’t seem to understand. I have the authority of the federal government with

Livestock, Opinion, Other livestock

End of an Era?

By Laura Rance-Unger May 27, 2010

You don’t have to like horses to appreciate the value the horse industry adds to Manitoba. As one industry participant once described it while standing on the sidelines at one of the many horse shows every summer, “There’s lots of money in horses – and I have the bills to prove it.” A 2009 study

Cereals, Opinion

Dissecting Co-Operatives’ Demise

May 27, 2010

With several large agriculture co-ops facing the same issues at roughly the same time frame, one has to ask – are these isolated events or are they part of some larger pattern? Co-ops are one of our shopping options– Co-op Marketplace grocery stores, credit unions, Co-op Gas Bars and C-stores, Mountain Equipment Co-op– and they

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