Daily Network News

More News →

Tag Archives Editorials/Comments

Opinion

Middlemen Win, Farmers Lose

Ten years ago, I was billed about $8 per ton at my local wooden elevator. The wood-ens have now been replaced with efficient high-throughput concrete elevators with 100-car load-outs. You will be better off, I was told; it will be more efficient. Now I pay $14 per ton at the concretes. Ten years ago, a
Opinion

Be Bold, Not Balanced

By
B y most accounts, the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council’s 2010 annual meeting was well attended, full of new members and democratically run. Those are all signs of a healthy organization – at least on the surface. So why the hard feelings? A former director went home bitter after the nominating committee did not renew her
Opinion

Sask. Farmland Prices Remain Strong

By
Producers are always interested in farmland prices, but price tags vary a great deal from one area to another and even from one parcel of land to the next. There’s a lot of talk about a big land deal around Conquest, just west of Outlook. In the last couple months, approximately 85 parcels of land
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

An Alternative Solution To The Cattle Crisis

By
I suggest we have been suckered into export dependency and are now trapped on a treadmill of keeping more cattle to make up for declining margins. Many people have been pondering the question of whether there is a future for beef production in Canada. We are continually told that there is light at the end
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

U. S. Cowboy Checkoff Fight Grows

By
“There’s a real sense that the proposed NCBA changes leave no strong role for state beef councils and non-NCBA members. Who speaks for them if these changes are adopted?” – NANCY ROBINSON Of all the political hot rocks farm groups are juggling now in Washington, D. C. – cap and trade, cuts in crop insurance,
Opinion

Optical Illusions

By
It’s pretty easy to get people all fired up these days. Just announce you’re going to rewrite the national anthem. Or axe the wheat board. Or publicly sanction a Crown corporation in the business of lending money to farmers for sending its employees on all-expense-paid trips to Disney World. Farm Credit Canada was in the
Opinion

Canadian Farmers Lose On Inputs

By
As farmers, the cost of inputs affects our bottom lines. Competition in the supply of these inputs is essential to keep supplies adequate and prices realistic, and to keep Canadian farmers competitive in world markets. Last summer the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food began an examination of competition in agricultural inputs, with particular focus
Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 25, 2010

Layer barn standards get long lead time As a member of The Humane Education Network (THEN), I have to say kudos to the MEF for adopting the Five Freedoms for layer barns. Let me reassure Tim Ruby that we are in no way interested in putting him out of business as per my article in
Cereals, Opinion

More Immediate Concerns Deserve Farmers’ Attention

By
As tempting as another battle over the CWB may be to farm leaders, we need to focus our attention on the immediate matter at hand: the inability of our farm programs to stabilize farm income. The last federal throne speech made it perfectly clear. The sabres are rattling and the attack on the Canadian Wheat
Opinion

Is Salt Becoming The Next Trans Fat?

By
While there is always some scientific uncertainty in matters of regulatory science, in our Jan. 21 article (“Hold the salt,” Co-operator, page 5) we saw there is now a strong scientific consensus that Canadians on average are consuming more than double the recommended daily intake of sodium (1,500 mg), and that there is strong evidence

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for Sept. 5, 2025

Sponsored By:
More Videos →

Cyber-Savvy Farmer

Glacier Farmmedia Podcast

Latest Market News

More Market News →