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• "There's More at Stake than you Think....." - This is another topic audiences have appreciated this year at various meetings in the USA and Canada. Here I address the real vitality and challenges of our farmers and the agriculture industry hi-lighting the importance of producing the safest, healthiest and cheapest food anywhere in the world.  

Siemens Says - Viterra on the move.
 

Canadian government takes a stand against mCOOL
Canadian beef cattle producers received welcome news from Canada’s Minister for International Trade, Stockwell Day, when he stated during his trip to Washington, D.C. yesterday that Canada will request new consultations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over mandatory Country-of-Origin Labelling (mCOOL), in early May [ more...]

Canadian hog numbers lowest in 11 years
StatsCan hog inventories first quarter 2009 - As of April 1, there were 8,300 hog farms in Canada, about 1,000 fewer than a year ago.
Statistics Canada issued its estimates of Canadian hog inventories for the first quarter of 2009. StatsCan’s analysis follows. On April 1, Canadian farmers had an estimated 11.9 million hogs on their farms, down 1.1 million or 8.6 per cent from the same date last year. [ more...]

It’s the ‘Human’ flu….Stupid…. uhhh Ignorance Maybe..
To get a feel for what U.S. pork producers and packers are going through, imagine that someone with the same name as you robbed the local bank and, upon his/her apprehension, your local newspaper included YOUR picture in the front page, above-the-fold story. A definite sinking feeling that makes you want to scream and cry at the same time, huh? [ more...]

Big jump in Saskatchewan farmland values
Kevin Hursh - It isn’t very often that Saskatchewan leads the nation with increasing farmland values. Our farmland has long been the least expensive in Canada, so we’re finally playing some catch-up. The latest Farmland Values Report from Farm Credit Canada indicates that the average value of farmland in the province increased by 8.8 per cent in the last half of 2008. [ more...]

Double Checking Some Numbers
Rolf Penner- In today’s Winnipeg Free Press Laura Rance runs some profitability numbers on wheat and canola. Manitoba government estimates of crop production costs show canola requires about $295 per acre. At today’s prices, farmers’ first 33 bushels per acre of production go toward covering their production costs. In some parts of the Prairies, 33 bushels per acre is a good yield for canola. And that’s if nothing goes wrong.
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Chrysler crisis pulls union into reverse
Les Routledge - How much is labour worth??? How many high school drop outs earn more than $100,000 per year? [more....]

Who said what and what will be the outcome??
HS: Some candidates in the last Canadian Wheat Board Directors elections refused to allow the Canadian Wheat Board to make public their donors’ list. Meyers Norris Penny, a client of the CWB in this matter [election coordinator] said, “It’s all or nothing. You let us publicize your donor’s list, or you can have your total report back.” However, so far, the CWB has only publicized the donors’ information, but the rest of MNP’s report is not.
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Samuelson Sez - Be Careful What You Wish For
Orion Samuelson - In the world of agriculture, new rules, regulations and legislation are put in place for beneficial reasons. Occasionally those benefits also bring about some unwanted and unintended results. A recent case in point; the banning of horse slaughter and the export of horse meat for human consumption to foreign countries. That ruling has led to a miserable existence and death for hundreds of unwanted horses that are turned loose and ultimately die of disease or starvation. [ more...]

Assault on Production Agriculture one State at a Time
HS: Another assault on production agriculture…. California Takes First Step to Feed Antibiotic Ban and read this - CALIFORNIA, US - Senator Florez will take the next step in a campaign to ban all non-therapeutic antibiotics from the feed of cattle, pigs and poultry in the state tomorrow. This from the PoultrySite …. Editorial: An end to commercial farming in California? [ more...]
 

Talks given successfully - "My Second Chance" - about my walk to, through and with quadruple bypass surgery.
"There's More at Stake than you Think"  - focuses on the importance of agriculture, those who produce the food, and what those who want to stop production agriculture as we know it today, will do to stop it.
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*** State of the Union Farm Address - Current farm issues as they relate to your audience. It includes current state of affairs, spiced with humor and motivation.
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