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Out-Of-Court Settlement Sought For BSE Lawsuit

By Ron Friesen May 27, 2010

Agrassroots movement of cattle producers is pressing for an out-of-court settlement to a class-action lawsuit against Ottawa for damages stemming from BSE. Producers across Canada are petitioning the federal government to appoint retired Supreme Court judge Frank Lacobucci to mediate the settlement. Organizers are currently circulating petitions across Canada for producers to sign and forward

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

U. S. Cowboy Checkoff Fight Grows

By Alan Guebert April 1, 2010

“There’s a real sense that the proposed NCBA changes leave no strong role for state beef councils and non-NCBA members. Who speaks for them if these changes are adopted?” – NANCY ROBINSON Of all the political hot rocks farm groups are juggling now in Washington, D. C. – cap and trade, cuts in crop insurance,

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 18, 2010

February 18, 2010

We welcome readers’comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases we cannot accept “open” letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Volunteer CWB would be democratic The

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 4, 2010

February 4, 2010

Government argument insulting I spent Wednesday, Jan. 20 sitting in Federal Court in Winnipeg as a farmer-applicant on behalf of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board. Our case is about the voter manipulation by the federal government in 2008 in our farmer-funded Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director elections. Instead of using the majority of

Cereals, News

Supreme Court Upholds Wheat Board Gag Order

By Ron Friesen January 28, 2010

“We think there’s an important principle of farmer control at stake.” – LARRY HILL, CWB The Canadian Wheat Board has lost its final effort to overturn a federally imposed gag order on promoting its sales monopoly. The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear a CWB appeal against a lower court ruling to leave

News

Briefs continued – for Jan. 21, 2010

January 21, 2010

Producer car plea: B. C. MP Alex Atamanenko has written to federal Transportation Minister John Baird appealing for quick action to preserve farmers’ access to producer car-loading sites. “It is important to note the significance of a decision made by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1902, which upheld the provision of producer cars to

Crops, Forages

U. S. Top Court To Decide Monsanto Alfalfa Case

By James Vicini January 21, 2010

The U. S. Supreme Court said Jan. 15 it would hear an appeal by Monsanto Co. of a ruling that barred the company from selling its genetically modified alfalfa seed, until an environmental review is done. The justices agreed to review a ruling by a U. S. Appeals Court in California that upheld a federal

Opinion

Letters – for Jan. 7, 2010

January 7, 2010

Bigger issues than climate change Pat Mooney, an Ottawa-based consultant and crop diversity enthusiast, addressed the NFU convention in Saskatoon in December, as reported by your Allan Dawson (“Crop diversity key to food security,” Co-operator, Dec. 10, page 16). In Mooney’s future, climate change will change everything in world agriculture, including what crops can actually

Opinion

Mandatory Membership Requires Significant Common Benefit

By Phil Veldhuis December 17, 2009

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

Cereals, News

Wells Condemns Corporate Seed Power

By Allan Dawson December 3, 2009

Afew very large seed corporations led by Monsanto have too much power over farmers, according to retiring National Farmers Union (NFU) president Stewart Wells. “With the rapid changes the seed companies are making to the system – seed registration, patent protection, seed contracts and inter-company seed agreements – Monsanto and the seed trade will quickly

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

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