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Carbon tax absolutely necessary Farm leaders are spewing gloom and doom about the effects of a carbon tax. Scientists are telling us that we need to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels within the next 10 years to avoid climate catastrophe. Governments around the world have spent billions of dollars of taxpayer money in […] Read more

Alberta Pension Plan a good idea I admit I’m not a great political guy. I let our day-to-day politics pass over me like the next prevailing northwestern breeze. But there has been a recent issue that defies logic and grace and only comes from a place of pure partisanship on both sides. To hear both […] Read more

Prairies experience drought and flood As a primary food producer in Western Canada, any article regarding the climate, like “North American farmers warned to prepare for a long dry spell” in the Dec. 3 Western Producer, catches my undivided attention. Through my school years and from my father-and-uncle years, I was told about drought and […] Read more

Supply management criticism off base Do all those folks who do nothing but complain about the Canadian supply management systems ever use common sense? Do they all want to be like that American who complained Canadian dairy practices undercut U.S. dairy farmers. Let’s Google the state of Wisconsin. Ah, Wisconsin milk production outproduces the entire […] Read more

Universal access needed for COVID vaccine On April 12, 1955, the Salk vaccine for polio was declared “safe, effective and potent.” Jonas Salk, inventor of the killed polio virus vaccine, was interviewed by CBS newsman Edward R. Morrow and was asked who owned the patent. “Well, the people, I would say.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself […] Read more

AgriStability must be fixed Dear ministers of agriculture, Canada’s 7,000 pork producers play an important role in their rural communities and are key contributors to agri-food exports and ensuring the security of Canada’s food supply. However, their contributions are at risk due to unprecedented market volatility, much of it beyond their control. In the current […] Read more

Domestic violence requires attention Domestic violence on the Prairies has come to a head, and we ought to talk about it. A few weeks ago the courts convicted a woman of murdering her abusive husband in Ryley, Alta. For nearly three decades, he threw wrenches at her and yelled at the kids so often that […] Read more

AgriStability comments make no sense Kevin Hursh’s opinion piece about AgriStability in the Oct. 29 issue of The Western Producer makes no sense and is infuriating because he seems to want to pit farmers against each other by taking AgriStability benefits away from grain farmers and giving them, instead, to hog and livestock farmers. Hursh’s […] Read more

Ontario farmers cannot be ignored Kevin Hursh’s analysis on page 11 of the Oct. 15 Western Producer of the situation facing Ontario’s grain farmers blindsided by U.S. subsidies for its farmers amply demonstrates the dismissive attitude of too many people in Western Canada who know nothing about what it’s like to farm in the shadow […] Read more