Pork group says new sustainability document will increase transparency around its goals and environmental progress
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Manitoba Pork unveils new sustainability framework
Pork group says new sustainability document will increase transparency around its goals and environmental progress
Ag in Motion gains international attention
Western Canadian equipment draws interest for potential international customers
Equipment demonstration is one of the biggest draws of the annual Ag in Motion farm show, and it's bringing interest from potential business in Africa and Europe.
KAP to lobby for farmer well-being licence plates
Money raised from sale of plates would support Manitoba Farmer Wellness program
Keystone Agricultural Producers plans to lobby the provincial government to allow specialty licence plates that would support mental wellness programs for farmers. A resolution requesting the effort was passed at the organization’s July 24 advisory council meeting. Money raised from the sale of the plates, if approved, would go toward Manitoba Farmer Wellness, which launched in 2022. The program provides
Report highlights optimism, resignation in agriculture sector
Belief that industry and government can remedy policy, extreme weather and trade issues varies across stakeholders
Report from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute highlights optimism, but also resignation in agriculture sector when looking to the future.
Cereals Canada moves forward with GATE building plans
Plans for a new downtown Winnipeg hub are proceeding; now they need the money
The new centre in downtown Winnipeg would host Cereals Canada, other grain industry groups, and be a new home for processing and milling equipment.
Rail strike still looms as holdup stretches on
Grain industry says delaying what appears to be an inevitable strike isn’t helpful
Teamsters voted to strike in May, but labour action is still in gridlock as both sides wait for Canadian Industrial Relations Board decision.
Prairie soybean sector celebrates milestones
Soybeans have made tremendous strides in Manitoba in the last 14 years
Soy Canada and the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers celebrate anniversaries at Dauphin-area meeting.
Comment: The actual costs of the ‘industrial mind’
Human ‘cleverness’ can’t outweigh nature, at least not for long
In an essay in his new book, Hogs Are Up, Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute near Salina, Kansas, and a shrewd observer of U.S. agriculture, revisits a speech he gave in Coon Rapids, Iowa, in August 2009 to mark the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous visit to the Roswell Garst farm. During
Futures industry shaken as another broker goes bankrupt
Reuters / Russell Wasendorf Sr., arrested last Friday, confessed to a 20-year fraud at Peregrine Financial Group (PFG), his now-bankrupt Iowa brokerage, saying business troubles and his “big” ego left him no choice: “So I cheated.” In the dramatic conclusion to a week-long saga that has shaken trader confidence in the trillion-dollar U.S. futures markets,
Your Door Is Ajar
DAVE BEDARD It’s not been much fun in retail these past few years for those selling fertilizer to farmers. If you had to restock when prices skyrocketed, then deal with outraged farmers who declined to pay those prices, you’d start to wonder how the next growing season would pan out. If you were then stuck
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