Biofuel not sole food crisis culprit - WP editorial
RARELY has public perception of an issue reversed so completely so quickly.

Labelling nuance needed - Opinion
JOHN Masswohl, the Canadian Cattlemen's Association's savvy Ottawa-based director of government and international relations, hit the nail on the head recently when he appeared before a parliamentary committee studying "product of Canada" labelling.

Nearly time to man the lifeboats? - Opinion
Beckham is a farmer who writes from Winnipeg.

Sobering stats on press freedom day - Editorial Notebook
Thirty-eight years of being on the front line of journalism teaches a few lessons.

Letters to the editor
CBC story

Cosmetic chemical bans bear watching - WP editorial
AS OF Earth Day, April 22, Canada's two largest provinces have banned the cosmetic use of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Other provinces are predicted to follow suit.

Greenhouse gas rhetoric emits both myths, realities - Opinion
LIBERAL leader Stéphane Dion loves to accuse prime minister Stephen Harper of being a "climate change denier."

We have a strong malt industry - Opinion
Cuthbert is the senior barley marketing manager for the Canadian Wheat Board.

Trash talk about highway cleanup - Editorial Notebook
Long before there was dumpster diving, there was ditch duty. And the ditches held more detritus than they seem to hold today.

Speculators, investors can have two faces - The Moral Economy
SPECULATORS are never popular. We associate such people with naked greed. They profit from our misery. No one wants to be known as a speculator.

Diaries of a global farmer
Golden copper is a term we heard in the Zambian copper belt. Our guide wasn’t talking about metal, though, but the colour of tea, which is one of Kenya’s major export commodities. We toured a small holder owned tea factory in Kapsabet, Kenya.

Letters to the editor
Market freedom

Time to rethink food aid scenarios - WP editorial
TODAY'S higher grain prices offer at least one rare season of optimism for prairie farmers.

Ritz claims right to private farmer marketing info - Opinion
IMAGINE this scene if you can: federal health minister Tony Clement, confronted by evidence that he had contacted medicare officials to get personal details on 25 heart transplant patients involved in an experimental program, including addresses, telephone numbers and medical charts, offers the following defense in the House of Commons:

Treaty denial affects farmland - Dialogue
TREATIES are just old documents. Why should Canadians care? History is history: Indians should just get over it.

Farmers unlikely to have green fatigue - Editorial Notebook
To the many expressions involving the colour green, we can add "green fatigue."

Barley price premiums and wheat board - Opinion
Gray is a professor in the University of Saskatchewan's policy, business and economics department.

Electric car making a comeback - Getting Around
One of the most amusing points about the development of electric cars is that in the early years of the automobile industry they were seen as a convenience.

Quality, price, convenience never out of fashion - The Bottom Line
Organic and local food are hot these days, so it's no surprise that business is brisk at Small Potatoes Urban Delivery, a Vancouver company that's working both those themes.

Diaries of a global farmer
"Farming is everybody's bread and butter."

Letters to the editor
Fuel over food?

Market now failing price discovery role - WP editorial
A U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission forum on April 22 will examine a smoldering problem in agricultural futures trade.

Parties show split personalities on biofuel support - Opinion
AS THE week's world headlines connecting the demand for ethanol grain feedstock with political instability and starvation became more extreme, questions in the House of Commons became more critical of government support for the biofuel industry.

Organic guarantee still a myth - Opinion
Popoff is an organic inspector and consultant based in Osoyoos, B.C.

Promoting hogs even in tough times - Editorial Notebook
Doug Hall shipped the last of his hogs on April 7. On April 12, the Alberta hog producer, shown above, was on the job at Aggie Days in Calgary, answering questions about pigs posed by thousands of Alberta children.

Pay attention to rising cost of food - The Moral Economy
WHILE wheat prices have been strengthening, the world price of rice has doubled. While prairie producers are seeing better incomes, there have been food riots in Egypt and Somalia where rice is in short supply. 

Taxman on warpath against RRSP scams - Money in Your Pocket
Most large organizations launch periodic campaigns to motivate their employees and customers to action. But if you are the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), how do you motivate the thousands of auditors and investigators you have hired to root out tax revenue that is seeping from the government's coffers?

Diaries of a global farmer
I tell Loveness the story of how a Zimbabwean family was chased from their farm by Mugabe's followers and she is intrigued. "That's a very interesting story," she comments.

Letters to the editor
Biofuel research