Reading Time: 2 minutes A growing number of funds want to invest in companies that are starting new businesses or expanding in agriculture and I can see that change from the first Agri Tech Venture Forum I attended a few years ago. That’s great news, as the agriculture startup world was bereft of alternative finance options until about five years ago.
Is it time for a farmer venture fund?
Reflection key to ag labour challenges
Recent study finds wages and benefits shortfall from some agriculture employers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agriculture has to face its workplace shortfalls.
The healing power of the farm
Farmers can play a role in making our society - and the world - stronger and more resilient
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brenda Schoepp column regarding healing power of agriculture and food production for society.
We have a protein problem
OPINION | Sources should be evaluated head-to-head on a lifecycle basis and include contribution to human nutrition
Reading Time: 2 minutes Development of all protein options should be supported. Likewise, all protein sources should be evaluated head-to-head on a lifecycle basis.
Grain business consolidation and concentration
A recent study suggests farmer concerns over the Viterra-Bunge merger are well founded
Reading Time: 3 minutes The anti-competitive tentacles of this deal reach much deeper than a consolidation that makes two competitors into one. This is about who will shape the future of grain handling and oilseed processing in Western Canada.
The wild side of zoonotics
Did the U.S. practice of feeding chicken litter contribute to the bovine flu outbreak?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Commonly known as bird flu, avian influenza A has crossed the boundaries from the chicken barn to the dairy farm and from there to a human in the United States. This is a serious virus that has infected poultry in 50 American states since 2022. The person infected in April is the second U.S. human […] Read more
Opinion: The barons of the dinner table
New book pulls back the curtains on ag mercantilists
Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Manufacturers are “an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public.” That quote is originally from the first economist, Scotland’s Adam Smith, almost 250 years ago, and is repurposed by writer Eric Schlosser in the foreword of Iowan Austin Frerick’s new book, “Barons: Money, Power, […] Read more
Letter to the Editor: Don’t surrender on the enviro front
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am a long-time reader of your paper and appreciate the informative agricultural news and other articles. However, the opinion piece by Matt McIntosh entitled ‘Time to farm with nature,’ has prompted some very serious questions I would love to pose to him, and to you, as you have printed his opinion; vital questions which […] Read more
Schoepp: For sale signs of the times
Should farms consider ecological diversity as a risk management tool?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s spring and the time of year that farmland often changes hands. The “for sale” sign signals an end to trial and triumph and always invites curious conversations. This spring, there is an increase of sales in certain sectors. Sales driven by land stress and owners’ inability to financially weather another storm. Tree fruits and […] Read more
Comment: Time to farm with nature
Don’t wait for the trend towards greater regulation, mold it by getting involved
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – I’m increasingly convinced that legislation to protect nature on farmland from ourselves is a necessity. Aside from the environment, there are practical political and economic reasons to support hypothetical restrictions on the removal of woodlots, fencerows, tallgrass prairie and the like. And if we are proactive, there is opportunity to lobby for […] Read more
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