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If Canadians want improved environmental outcomes at the farm level, farmers need to be compensated accordingly.

Editor’s Take: The window opens

By Gord Gilmour March 16, 2023

It’s been a long-held dream of many in the agriculture sector to see farmers paid for the environmental goods and services they provide to society. The argument goes that farmers can do great things for the environment. But as Bill Campbell, past president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), has often noted, farmers can’t be

We need to provide our input while policies are being drafted, because reacting after the election is called or after the policy platforms are published is too late.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: The election hasn’t been called but the campaign has begun

Farmers should be meeting with candidates now to ensure their views are heard

By Cam Dahl March 13, 2023

Sometime before Oct. 24, Manitobans will go to the polls to elect the next provincial government. While we don’t know the election date, the campaign has already begun, or at least, it should have begun for farmers if we want to see agriculture’s needs reflected in the parties’ policies. The political parties are getting prepared

The thorny issue of Crown lands is shaping up to be an election issue for rural voters later this fall.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Crown lands an election issue

By Gord Gilmour March 9, 2023

If the goal of changes to Manitoba’s Crown land rules was to get more young producers into the cattle business, it’s been an unequivocal failure. And that was one of the major justifications offered for the 2019 changes that shortened leases, did away with unit transfers, raised rents and added an auction component to win

Crown land lease auctions have seen much of the available land go to large and established operations, members of the Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association say.

Livestock, News

Enter the bidding wars for Crown land

Crown land leaseholders decry what they say are a few big names taking up more than their share of forage leases

By Alexis Stockford March 9, 2023

For producers like Shelley Dyck and Dakota Sorensen, the results of the 2023 Crown land lease auctions were disappointing but not unexpected. Those results illustrate concerns that they and other members of the Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association have had for years. With few exceptions, almost all available parcels in the area around Ste. Rose

Other

As globalization fades new strategies needed

By GFM Network News, Glacier FarmMedia Staff, Gord Gilmour March 8, 2023

Don’t expect a return to normal geopolitical conditions — at least not if you think the past several decades were normal. That was Janice Gross Stein’s message March 8, in an opening address to the Canadian Crops Convention. The noted political scientist and founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Farmers hear from national political leaders

By GFM Network News, Glacier FarmMedia Staff, Gord Gilmour March 7, 2023

For the first time since at least 1980, according to a long-time member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, a sitting Prime Minister has spoken to the annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA). Liberal leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was a last minute addition to the agenda, joining Conservative Party leader Pierre

Left to right: Brenna Mahoney, general manager Keystone Agricultural Producers; Carson Callum, general manager, Manitoba Beef Producers; Cam Dahl, general manager, Manitoba Pork.

News, Other

Start engaging with your ag leadership

Producer groups set sights on looming election

By Don Norman March 1, 2023

With a provincial election coming at some point this year, producers should not wait to engage with their representatives. “From my perspective, the election has already begun,” said Cam Dahl, general manager with Manitoba Pork. Dahl was part of a panel of industry leaders talking about the impending election at an event hosted by the

Stephen Poloz, an economist and former governor of the Bank of Canada, speaks during CropConnect in Winnipeg on February 15.

News, Other

Forecasting future little use in turbulent era: Poloz

The convergence of five ‘tectonic’ economic forces likely to create more and bigger financial shocks than usual

By Geralyn Wichers February 24, 2023

In upcoming turbulent times, forecasting the future will lose value, a former Bank of Canada governor told a CropConnect audience. Instead, preparing for multiple scenarios will be key for business risk management. Economists will be “wallowing around in an incredible amount of uncertainty,” said Stephen Poloz. Why it matters: Economic volatility will make forward planning

After seven-plus years in office, it’s time to assess the degree to which Trudeau’s rhetoric has been matched with action.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Is Canada back on the world stage — or irrelevant?

A great nature is a shadow of its former self, despite claims by our leadership

By Eugene Lang February 21, 2023

“Canada is back,” Justin Trudeau proclaimed triumphantly just after being elected prime minister in 2015. The insinuation was that his predecessor, Stephen Harper, had withdrawn Canada from its traditional role in the world and the Liberals would restore our rightful place of leadership in the global firmament. After seven-plus years in office, it’s time to

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Woe Canada

By Gord Gilmour February 10, 2023

Canada faces many issues internationally that are going to determine the success or failure of its agri-food sector. Is enough being done to address them? That was the subject of a recent summit in Ottawa that John Greig attended on behalf of Glacier FarmMedia. One of the latest and most-hyped endeavours in the agriculture sector

Daily Network News

Feed Grain Weekly: Seasonal gains expected this spring

Klassen: Stronger barley prices weigh on feeder cattle values

Russia stops ammonium nitrate exports for one month amid global supply crunch

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