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Letters: Pedersen should listen to young producers

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My name is Dakota Sorensen. I am 26 years old. My partner Kaitlin and I moved to Eddystone in June 2019, looking to build a ranch and raise a family in Manitoba. I put up everything I had to buy a ranch, composed largely of Crown lease land. Now, on top of large farm payments,
Comment, Letters

Letters: Time for new priorities

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In response to the Aug. 31 story in the Manitoba Co-operator, “Municipal Board considering benchmark ruling.” Very often we hear the outcry for economic development and resurrection of employment with no concerns whatsoever for water sources, environment and a quality of living. Only a degree of risk is sometimes mentioned. Without water, there is no
The proposed quarry site, currently a sunflower field and abandoned farm site. A barn and a house on the site were demolished this spring.
Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: The ugly side of Bill 19

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Geralyn Wichers needs to be commended for her in-depth reporting on the Lilyfield Quarry controversy. After all that has transpired in the RM of Rosser, one has to wonder what part of “no” the quarry developer has trouble understanding. Now, under Bill 19, we face the prospect of the ruling Conservatives’ proxy, in the form
Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Quarry fight reveals Bill 19 undermines representation

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The people in the RM of Rosser are experiencing first hand what those who opposed Bill 19 understood was the real purpose of the bill. To reduce people’s ability to protect themselves from certain developments contrary to their interests and for municipal councils to properly represent them. The message is clear. People and their quality
Letters, Other

Letters: Bigger not better

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The recent closures of meat-packing plants in Alberta, Quebec and several American states due to the COVID-19 pandemic are shedding light on the tremendous expense of this style of massive meat-processing operation. The expense borne by the workers at the plants is the greatest of all, their health threatened so severely, even causing death to
The Manitoba government’s proposed changes to Crown land leases could financially hobble young producers looking to enter the cattle business.
Farmit Manitoba, Letters

Letters: Crown land changes ‘abhorrent’

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My husband and I moved to the Ste. Rose area from Alberta in May of 2019. We have been caught up in the Crown land modernization fiasco. The fact that there was a Conservative government in the province, along with reasonable land prices, made it an attractive place for us to grow our cattle business.
Letters: Crown land leases – then and now
Farmit Manitoba, Letters

Letters: Crown land leases – then and now

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Way back in 1976 my very first job with Manitoba Agriculture was a three-month contract, to do a review of the province’s Crown land leasing program. It was a steep learning curve for me at the end of which I concluded that the then existing system was: a) Expensive to administer; b) Undervalued the province’s
Farmit Manitoba, Letters, News

Letters: Wild boars are bad news

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There might be a lot of differences between rural Manitoba and the Italian countryside, but there is one similarity. In Italy about 1,000 farms around Rome have had to deal with the destruction caused by wild boars. That country has been forced to defend its agricultural history — grape production reaching back centuries. The wild
Farmit Manitoba, Letters, News

Letters: What’s the true value of life?

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A recent article by Allan Dawson on seed royalties included this statement under the ‘why it matters’ heading: “The seed industry says Canadian farmers need to pay more for cereals varieties to make farms profitable.” In my understanding of the world there is a lot of history behind that statement, history which we need to
News & Opinion, Opinion

Letters, Aug. 29, 2013

Re: ‘CWB fees not cause of producer car drop,’ Aug. 22 Ken Larsen disagrees with Mark Hemmes’ comment that changes in “board fees” have caused the decline in producer cars. In his argument, Mr. Larsen correctly asserts that under the single desk, producer car loaders “bypassed the inland elevator system and consequently saved paying the

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