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
The Marketing Puzzle – for Oct. 11, 2010
New Horizons
Reading Time: 4 minutes On the morning that Country Guide caught up with him, Leon Ternan was heading out to drive combine after he had worked on some bookkeeping and then made time to read his marketing newsletters. What other profession gives you this kind of variety? Leon says. Sometimes I am asked why I spend so many hours […] 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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