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Too Close For Comfort

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR YouTube is a wonderful thing. Need to know how to change the battery for your car’s key fob, or figure out the bass line for a Beatles tune? Look no further. You can watch cute cat videos all afternoon and still look like you’re working. And now you can watch Prime
Opinion

Weed Science Hits The Big Screen

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Scientist Jodie Holt typically spends her days researching thistles and other invasive weeds that can play havoc on planet Earth. But when the producers of the blockbuster movie “Avatar” called, she suddenly found herself immersed in the lush plant life of Pandora, the remote moon where much of the film’s action is based. “The filmmakers
Crops, Opinion

Diversification may be bland, but it works

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Canada West Foundation estimates that Manitoba’s real GDP edged up 0.1 per cent in 2009, and forecasts that it will grow 1.9 per cent in 2010. Excerpted from “Avoiding Recession Contagion: Manitoba Economic Profile and Forecast” published last month. The full report can be viewed at: http://www.cwf.ca. Just as the careful approach followed by Canada’s
Cereals, Opinion

Only actual producers should vote

I would like to respond to the inaccuracies and misconceptions left by Allan Dawson in his article “Who controls the CWB, farmers or Ottawa?” in the March 4 Manitoba Co-operator. The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) assertion is that everyone who holds a permit book deserves a ballot. Western Canadian producers have told
Opinion

USDA-DOJ Workshop Better Work

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“I can buy seed from 100 different companies but 90 per cent of all the germplasm in it comes from just one company, Monsanto.” The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, better known as NASCAR, often brags that it’s the only sport in the world to begin every new season with its biggest, richest
Opinion

Food, 2050 And Beyond

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Type the phrase “farmers feeding world” into Google’s search engine and “about 15 million results” pop up in “0.12 seconds.” Some results may surprise American farmers who, in good old U-S-of-A modesty, may have thought they had been, were and will be feeding the world. Not so, suggests the hunter-gatherers at Google. “Smallest Farmers Key
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Opinion, Poultry

The Wedge Effect

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If recent reports are any indication, a growing number of consumers want to feel good about the food they eat – even if it means paying more for it. For example, a recent Context Marketing survey of consumers in the San Francisco Bay area found that 70 per cent of the respondents said they would
Opinion, Other livestock

Domestic Market Access Stymied

The articles “Trade Rules Stymies Ontario Farmer” (March 4) and “Ewe Numbers Down” (March 4) both explain why there are not more sheep in Manitoba and, in general, Canada. Where are we supposed to market them? How do you serve your customers with limited slaughter and that great a distance to access? Who is butchering
Opinion

Don’t Reject The Ejector

Regarding the sewage ejector ban, I don’t know what got into their heads. The province is phasing out sewage ejectors across the province and we will have to replace it with a septic field. No farmer can afford to replace it at a cost of $10,000 to $20,000. There is no scientific evidence to back
Cereals, Opinion

Farmers’ Right To Choose

In his letter in the March 4 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator, Canadian Wheat Board director Bill Toews raises a question about a voluntary Canadian Wheat Board that all farmers should be asking their board of directors; “If such a thing was workable for farmers, why would it not be in place today?” The simple

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