by Breanne Baker | Apr 11, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
A big trade issue has surfaced involving the European Union, lentils and glyphosate residue. A shipment of organic lentils from Turkey has exceeded the EU’s tolerance for glyphosate residue. This issue is now limiting lentil trade between North American and Europe....
by Breanne Baker | Apr 8, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
There’s a major agricultural election issue in Ontario that Prairie farmers don’t fully appreciate. The province of Ontario has developed a Risk Management Program for all its non-supply managed agriculture sectors. The program provides revenue insurance based on...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 7, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
You sometimes forget how lucky we are to farm in a province where agriculture is taken seriously at the political level. You just have to look at British Columbia to see a province where agriculture is treated like a political afterthought. Christy Clark, the new B.C....
by Breanne Baker | Apr 6, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
A media story has been circulating that the National Research Council’s Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon plans to develop genetically modified wheat. The story is making the rounds and drawing fire from those opposed to genetic modification, but according to...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 5, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
With radiation leaking from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan, we have another reason not to believe scientists when they declare that something is safe. A good scientist will never say there is zero risk, only that risk is minimal or negligible. Unfortunately,...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 4, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Liberals have some interesting proposals for rural Canada in their election platform that was announced yesterday. Presumably farmers would benefit from their promise to quadruple renewable energy production. Regarding health care, the Liberals say they would...
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