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Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

CWB election changes undemocratic

I am responding to recently proposed legislation regarding Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) voting rules. These proposed changes do two things at the same time: take small producers off of the voters’ list even if they market their grain through the CWB and thereby help pay the costs of the organization, while at the same time
Opinion, Weather

Wanted: Accurate Farm Weather Forecasts

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It would be great to have even longer-range forecasts with reasonable accuracy, but I’m not convinced that is possible. Talking about the weather is a Canadian pastime and an obsession among grain producers. There’s been a lot to talk about this spring, with a big low-pressure system often following close on the heels of the
Livestock, Opinion

Abnormal Times For Agriculture

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For a number of reasons, it’s an unusual spring for agriculture. Typically, there’s a spring moisture shortage somewhere in Saskatchewan. It was certainly shaping up that way in western areas after a winter with below-normal precipitation. But the rain and snow started falling in early April and hasn’t stopped. Drought has been averted in the
Opinion

This Is Efficiency?

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We’ve all heard tales of the inefficiencies that have plagued centrally planned economies in far off places. The compounding effects – sluggish supply chains, lower productivity, missed delivery targets and people who could be working standing around with nothing to do – eventually drag the economy so deeply into an abyss, it takes a revolution
Opinion

Letters – for May. 20, 2010

Will taxpayers pay for hog barn cleanup? As I read about “Empty Hog Barns Tumbling Down” in the May 6 Manitoba Co-operator, I again began to wonder who is going to foot all the bills for the decommissioning and cleanup costs of the manure storage facilities, those outside and inside the barns. When I previously
Livestock, Opinion

Monitoring Wildlife Disease Key To Protecting Livestock

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“You cannot effectively find the source if you are only testing cattle.” The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association read with interest the article on the front page of the Manitoba Co-operator April 29 edition on the issue of anaplasmosis and disease surveillance in Manitoba. However, there were vital points not covered in the article. The CFIA’s
Opinion

Nothing To Hide

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Forty-five years may have dimmed a frame or two of memory, but I can still see my father emptying small bags of flour-like powder into a five-gallon bucket and then, slowing stirring in a trickle of water until the two ingredients combined to make a chalky, white cream. The bags contained the still-new, pre-emergent herbicide
Opinion

The Best Farm Support Program

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Scholarly types come up with different numbers when they set about quantifying the returns on public investment in agricultural research, but they are all, without fail, extraordinarily positive. University of Guelph agricultural economist George Brinkman summed it well in a 2004 paper by saying agricultural research is one of the highest payback uses for public
Opinion, Pulses

Herbicide Import Causes Maze Of Issues

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Unfortunately, most growers are bringing in Pursuit for what is actually an unregistered use. Farmers are importing a popular herbicide called Pursuit from the United States and saving a pile of money. That’s good news for the producers involved, but there are a lot of unfortunate consequences. Pursuit is a long-standing product from the crop
Opinion

Letters – for May. 13, 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. Farmers heading back to bad old

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