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Headshot of Cam Dahl, general manager of Manitoba Pork, wearing glasses and a dark suit jacket, photographed outdoors with green foliage in the background. Photo: file.

OPINION: Agriculture needs to lead its own solutions

Canadian agriculture needs a clear and united voice in the face of global uncertainty and a looming CUSMA review, the author writes

Reading Time: 3 minutes Cam Dahl argues Canadian agriculture must break out of commodity silos and present united policy solutions to government.








A black-and-white photo of a farmer in suspenders and hat operating a horse-drawn dump rake in a hay field used in the early 1900s to salvage short hay crops when farm water supply and rainfall were scarce. Photo: file.

When the taps run dry

A Calgary water outage sends Hart back to the 1960s drought that tested his family’s farm

Reading Time: 4 minutes A modern water outage sends a columnist back to the decade when wells ran dry and every stem of hay counted.

Having a repeat, high-value ancestor in a horse’s pedigree marks narrowed genetic diversity, the author writes. Photo: Harlequin129/iStock/Getty Images

Linebreeding horses drives genetic bottlenecks

Too much linebreeding and prioritizing pedigree can narrow genetic diversity and lead to horse health problems in future generations of foals

Reading Time: 4 minutes Too much linebreeding and prioritizing pedigree can narrow genetic diversity and lead to horse health problems in future generations of foals.





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