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Cereals, Opinion

CashPlus Controversy Has Little Traction

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Alittle over two years ago, the Canadian Wheat Board came up with a program called CashPlus for malting barley sales. Depending on who you listen to, it’s either been an absolute failure or a tremendous success. CashPlus was initiated at a time when the Conservative government was doing everything in its power to end the
Oilseeds, Opinion

Canola Election Process Flawed

With 2010 marking the 10-year anniversary of evermore farmers democratically helping an unwilling canola organization (MCGA) become more democratic, I am troubled by what was and was not reported in the December 17 “For Farmers Since 1925” issue covering the 2009 canola directors’ election. Vote123 was the sixth of six producer-initiated reforms. Which farmer-requested democratic
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Beef processors don’t need another subsidy

As a cattle producer, I question the motives of those who are prepared to give Canada’s largest cattle processors another subsidy as cited in the story “Tories accused of stalling SRM subsidy, Manitoba Co-operator Dec. 17. Brad Wildeman claims to represent primary producers (cow-calf operators) in his function as head of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.
Opinion

New Programs Deliver More Dollars To Fewer Producers

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We do have to realize that with a smaller amount of total program funding, larger funding percentages for projects, an increasing number of producers eligible, and focused priorities, the opportunity for funding has decreased. With the delivery of Growing Forward in 2009, producers saw major changes to Environmental Farm Plans (EFP) programming. Some of the
Oilseeds, Opinion

Brewing Antitrust Fight In Seed

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Key players in the U. S. seed industry are working to head off an antitrust probe into allegations of unfair competition even as farm groups ratchet up pressure on the government to take action against what they say are escalating prices and constriction of market choice. Fresh concerns about unfair market dominance were raised on
Opinion

Fault Lines Run Deep As EU Farm Policy Talks Heat Up

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An “offensive strategy” by France to take the lead in shaping a reform of European Union farm policy may not be enough to shield French farmers from the far-reaching changes sought by other member states. The 27-nation bloc plans to overhaul its complex Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which often provokes fierce arguments, and wants to
Opinion

Mandatory Membership Requires Significant Common Benefit

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Groucho Marx once joked that he would never “join any club that would accept him as a member.” I think a better principle would be to never join any organization that is forcing you to be a member. The Manitoba Beekeepers Associat ion is at tempt ing to force me to join and pay membership
Opinion

Beware Of Those “Activists”

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Back in the 1920s, a young lawyer – an American – no less, was stirring up trouble among rank and file farmers on the Canadian Prairies and throughout the U. S. Aaron Sapiro was campaigning to bring about political and social change that would give farmers marketing clout through the formation of co-operatives. We can
Opinion

Serving Agriculture, The Basic Industry

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The days of the CBC radio “Farm Broadcast” have passed into history, perhaps inevitably with the decline in farm numbers. But many still fondly remember the noon-hour market reports and general agriculture news, including city dwellers who appreciated the link to their farm cousins. (For a recent glimpse back into farm
Opinion

Take Biofuels To The Non-Bank Bank

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It was more a wavering non-waver than another government oldie but goodie, a non-denial denial. Still, nothing in the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Dec. 1 delay to grant the ethanol industry’s request to boost the current 10 per cent ethanol limit in gasoline to 15 per cent suggested it won’t happen – and soon.

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