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You’re So Wrong About China

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Reading Time: 5 minutes CG: China is revered for always thinking three steps ahead of its competitors, and for always building for the long term. Is it really better than other countries at “picking winners” in agriculture? JL:China has made many major mistakes in agriculture. The Straw for Beef program is a good example. Enormous amounts of money were […] Read more
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Where In The World?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Trade disputes, extreme weather, political upheaval. You name it, it impacts Canada’s farmers overnight, even if it happens half a world away. Where will the next big shock come from? Looking backward is the best place to start. COUNTRY GUIDE asked three agricultural news hounds to retrace the last six months and name the biggest […] Read more
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Proving It

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Reading Time: 6 minutes I should make it clear from the start that when I set out to write about value chains, I was more than a tad skeptical. In my experience, value chains were nothing but a load of jargon, and the only reason we keep hearing anything about them at all is that consultants haven’t yet burned […] Read more
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Better Negotiating

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Some farmers seem to think negotiating is a full-contact sport. But it’s more than a game — it’s serious business. Nothing feels better than talking your way into a great deal, like getting your dealer to lop a few thousand off the price of a new combine. Heck, some of us even get a charge […] Read more
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Joint Success

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Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s a question that Myron Teneycke asked five years ago, and the joint-venture owners of STR Farms at Young, Sask. haven’t looked back since. Nor has the farm. It has grown — going from 8,000 to 11,200 acres — and its staff has grown too. Today, STR pays a full-time managing couple, plus three full-time […] Read more
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Good Neighbours

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Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve never actually seen a barn-raising. And if the other women in my neighbourhood are holding quilting bees, they’re certainly not inviting me. The olden days are long gone. Yet farmers are still getting together to share information, news, ideas, and even work. These relationships are generally casual, undocumented, flexible and, well, just downright neighbourly. […] Read more
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If You Died Today…

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Jolene Brown was looking directly at the panel of three who had just lost their farming spouses. Then she asked the question. “If you had one more day, what would you say, what would you ask and, what would you do?” Brown knew it was a tough question. She’s a popular speaker, farm business adviser […] Read more
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Oooh, Aaah, Ogema (Saskatchewan, That Is)

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Reading Time: 6 minutes By the time you get 70 miles due south of Regina, you know what to expect. The landscape is as open in front of you as it is behind, marked only with occasional crossroads that once in a while still struggle to maintain their names and their status as villages, showing how once, a long […] Read more
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The “Urban” School Of Food

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Joe Nasr (left) starts out by telling me what his course is not about. “It’s not food safety,” says Nasr, instructor in food security at Ryerson University. He explains that the concept encompasses whether people have reliable access to food, whether that food is appropriate, whether it is affordable, and whether it is nutritionally balanced. […] Read more
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Food For Thought In Unexpected Places

Reading Time: 2 minutes Food for Thought at U of T At the University of Toronto, I ask Prof. Harriet Friedmann — who is in the sociology and geography departments — why there is no department of food. “Food would take care of itself if farmers just grew it,” she quips, talking about post-war views of food that played […] Read more

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