Reading Time: 3 minutes Gilbert Ferré grows 2,500 acres of wheat, barley, oats, canola and peas in the Zenon Park area of northeastern Saskatchewan. His son Nicolas farms with him, much as Gilbert farmed with his own father when he started out in 1974. Now, with years of experience behind him, Ferré doesn’t hesitate when asked what marketing advice […] Read more
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The Marketing Puzzle – for Oct. 11, 2010
Reading Time: 13 minutes A call, a put, a naked writer. At-the-money, in-the-money, out-of-the-money. It s enough to make you think you re locked inside a jigsaw puzzle where none of the pieces fit. In fact, though, if you go to some online dictionaries of grain marketing terms, you ll find these are a mere handful of the sub-categories […] Read more
Manitoba’s egg farmers believe they’ve found a better way to keep ahead of animal rights disputes
Reading Time: 10 minutes This is a story that starts with a fundamental but divisive question. Who should make the rules about how farm animals can and can’t be raised, and how they should be handled and slaughtered in Canadian agriculture? Is it completely up to the farmers themselves? Or is it up to consumers to choose how they […] Read more
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