Legal systems can be strange and expensive, especially in the United States where it seems that it’s less expensive to pay massive sums to settle disputes, even if you expect you will be exonerated by scientific proof. Bayer CropScience announced recently it was paying more than $10 billion because of lawsuits relating to the use […] Read more
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Editorial: Bayer puts faith in science in lawsuit settlement
Editorial: The blessing and curse of being essential
It was never in doubt that agriculture and the rest of the food system would be declared an essential service during COVID-19. There is little more essential to human life than food. Most of us celebrated quietly, as that designation meant that farm businesses could continue and the nature of most farms and the supply […] Read more
Editorial: So many who stay in agriculture have a connection to the land
As I spent time thinking about a former neighbour who recently passed away from cancer, it struck me that he is a good example of the diversity in people that makes agriculture so great. We have full time farmers, many thousands of them who are the rock of the sector, but we also have other […] Read more
Editorial: Tricking out planters has become popular
Few areas of agriculture see more farm-level innovation these days than we see in planters. There are hundreds if not thousands of permutations of planters and much of that variability is driven by farmer modifications. My wife and I recently were thumbing through various social media feeds. She wondered why I was so intently examining […] Read more
Editorial: Farm management will be critical in 2020
Farmers should be able to get their crops planted this spring, although there are some challenges in the fruit and vegetables sector. We’re due for a decent growing year and hopefully this is one. The year will be a much bigger challenge from a management perspective. In farming there are many factors to be managed, […] Read more
Editorial: Food system resilience should be priority
We only had a small amount of COVID-19 coverage in our last issue of Farmtario. What a difference in a couple of weeks, as our world has been turned upside down. Who knows what the news will be by the time you get our latest newspaper. The situation is changing so quickly, but it looks […] Read more
Editorial: Feed the markets that want to be fed
A&W has been the whipping boy for many in the agriculture community who see any marketing that might lead someone to question what they do on their farm as an enemy. It was back in 2013 (already) that A&W created a backlash by moving to beef that was free of added hormones and antibiotics. We […] Read more
Editorial: Burdensome beef supply needs an Ontario outlet
An overabundance of beef processing capacity has never been an asset of Ontario farmers. It might be time for them to take that problem into their own hands. The loss of the Ryding-Regency processor in Toronto in the late fall was another blow. Ryding-Regency was only about 15 per cent of the provincial beef processing […] Read more
Editorial: Watching for the next great leap in agriculture
Agriculture has been the productivity star of the Canadian economy for the past 50 years, says John Stackhouse of the Royal Bank. But he also says that predictable productivity improvement seen almost every year is flagging and he’s not sure why. He told the Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s annual meeting that for agriculture to become […] Read more
Editorial: Finding new ways of thinking
It pays to get out of your comfort zone sometimes, pushed to think a bit differently — especially if it’s about your line of work or something about which you are passionate. I recently attended a conference called the Sustainability and Digitalization Leaders in Agriculture. When the organizers first reached out to me — likely […] Read more
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