It wasn’t many years ago when media users had little ability to critique the reports they read, watched or listened to — it was a one-way delivery.
Sure, people could write a letter to the Editor and The Western Producer still receives excellent comments that way. However, in the media landscape today many people want to offer opinions more quickly and easily than they could in the past.
These opinions often lead to vibrant informative exchanges between media providers and its users.
We welcome comments on The Western Producer’s website, producer.com.
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While there, take a read through other people’s comments. There are some thought-provoking discussions to be had there.
This new weekly column hopes to bring some of those lively debates to the print edition.
The Western Producer’s web editor, Paul Yanko, and myself will also write about discussions going on in our Twitter and Facebook accounts.
One comment on our website that caught my eye this week was on Ed White’s opinion piece titled Grain companies had better be answerable to farmers — or they could get schooled like the railways, which ran in the Feb. 11 edition of the paper.
The commentator, identified as Russ, had this to say:
“Thanks Ed, good start, good article. Unfortunately, I don’t think many people realize that the railroads are behind this year again and that the fines were never really enforced. At least it makes people talk and you are right, same thing has to happen with grain companies. Although I think they will be surprised at how much business has been lost. I have never seen so many producer cars leaving this area.
As far as what the grain company’s are saying, just look at every one of their balance sheets.
Notice the dramatic increase in profits since CWB was killed and at the same time, farmers net income dropping like a rock.”
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We invite readers to participate in agricultural debates at producer.com.