A look back at the decision to start a new paper for the province’s farmers and ranchers
With Canada’s wheat selling at a discount to Russia’s, it’s time to admit the new open market isn’t working as it should
Growing more forage is the right thing to do. Is the beef industry prepared if it happens?
Increasing world food production means having healthy soil able to effectively deliver water and nutrients
Apparently grain companies reporting a weekly shortfall of between 1,000 to 2,000 cars isn’t evidence of poor service
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just as there’s good stress and bad stress, there’s good excitement and bad excitement. There’s the good excitement you get when watching the Grey Cup, especially if you’re a Riders fan. Then there’s the other kind of excitement (as in riled up) you got watching this year’s Grey Cup commercials about how the Harper government […] Read moreWhile we fight an unwinnable battle against COOL, the Americans are stealing our domestic meat market
Reading Time: 3 minutes Traceability is a fact of life for almost every other commodity that consumers buy; yet somehow we have not embraced traceability’s potential in the world of food. I cannot buy an iPhone that does not have complete traceability back to its basic components; yet what we put into our bodies is rarely traceable to source. […] Read moreThe lessons of the ‘Dirty ’30s’ are still valuable ones to pass on to farmers in other countries
Reading Time: 3 minutes When I went to the barber in Swift Current in the summer of 1937 to get a haircut and shave, he said the haircut was OK but he had quit shaving people. I asked “how come” and he said he couldn’t keep an edge on the razor anymore. With the terrible dust and the shortage […] Read moreNo collaboration The beef industry is suffering from too many organizations and not enough leadership
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fallout from the E. coli contamination at the XL beef plant is bad enough, but it will be even worse if this single issue diverts the industry from looking at some of its larger long-term challenges. Farmers got cranky enough about the Canadian Wheat Board, so imagine there was a Canadian Beef Board in […] Read more
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