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Opinion: What’s the futures market telling us?
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Opinion: What’s the futures market telling us?

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“Listen to what the futures market is telling you.” That came up in our news feed again last week, and it’s one of those phrases for which you’d like to have a dollar for every time you’ve heard it. It ranks slightly below the frequency for which you’ve heard a grain market adviser tell you
Editorial: Unmuzzling the civil service
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Editorial: Unmuzzling the civil service

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The mainstream media has been having a field day over the newly reacquired ability of Environment Canada’s “rock snot” scientist to speak to the press about his work. Max Bothwell, who has published multiple studies on the freshwater algae and what makes it grow, became somewhat of a poster boy for the federal scientists affected
Opinion: Here we go again
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Opinion: Here we go again

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First, the bad news. Farmers around the world did a great job last year. The good news? Farmers around the world did a great job last year. Such is the unfortunate reality of the grain market. As speakers at last week’s Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg said, the world is “awash with grain,” which
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Editorial: Just the numbers

'Then' and 'now' statistical figures in the world of agriculture

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World average wheat yield 2015 (bushels per acre): 48.4 U.S. 43.6 EU 86.5 Ukraine 57.4 Uzbekistan 76.4 Canada 40.3 Percentage increase in five-year average Prairie canola yields, 2005-09 to 2010-14: 5.9 For spring wheat: 15.6 Average per capita U.S. meat consumption, 1965, ounces per day: 7.8 In 2015: 9.34 USDA recommended daily consumption for men
Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
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Editorial: Knocking on new doors in Ottawa

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Aside from the difference in political stripe, the new federal government means quite a change for western farmers. You may or may not have agreed with their policies, but at least the Conservatives had plenty of MPs who knew how to run a swather, sort cattle or fill out an AgriStability form. There are some
Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: An inconvenient truth

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U.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers recently released the results of a study they commissioned on how much farm supports in four key markets are costing U.S. farmers. The premise behind the analysis, conducted by Iowa State University economists, is that countries such as Brazil, India, Turkey and China are depriving
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Editorial: A terrible loss

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The deaths of the Bott sisters from Withrow, Alta., last week touched all of us. We extend our deepest sympathies to their family and all who knew them. The tragedy has focused attention on farm safety, particularly how dangerous the farmyard can be for young children. From some quarters of the farming community has come
Editorial: Positioning to thrive
Dairy cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Positioning to thrive

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Canada’s dairy farmers are wise to tread carefully as they consider how to position their industry in the face of rising imports due to trade and technology. The oh-so-tempting reaction that comes immediately to mind would be to seek replacement of the sector’s protective tariff wall, which is gradually being eroded, with a non-tariff barrier
Editorial: Trust us. Why?
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Editorial: Trust us. Why?

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It was no small feat achieving the kind of Trans-Pacific Partnership deal that offers export agricultural commodity groups the kind of market access they were seeking with modest, but significant, concessions on supply management. If the early reports are to be believed (details were announced just before press time), Canada’s trade negotiators deserve kudos for
“The little red barn doesn’t exist anymore,” said Robert Saik, CEO of Agri-Trend. “That’s the problem. People’s romanticized view of agriculture doesn’t exist anymore.”
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Editorial: Bridging the urban-rural divide

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Canadian farm writers tackled a thorny subject at their recent annual meeting in Calgary — bridging the urban-rural divide. True to form, some speakers took a contrarian view, starting with the conference’s red hip-roofed barn logo. “The little red barn doesn’t exist anymore,” said Robert Saik, CEO of Agri-Trend. “That’s the problem. People’s romanticized view

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