Carbon levels difficult to measure in soil In a recent issue of The Western Producer, Agriculture Canada attempted to explain how they measured carbon emissions. They come up with a number, no explanation how they arrived at that number, multiplied that number by another number and did some more calculations. After all the calculations, they […] Read more
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Letters to the editor – December 1, 2022
Letters to the editor – November 24, 2022
Feeling sheepish Thank you for including the lovely photos on page 30, Touring the Past, in the Oct. 13 edition of The Western Producer. I did want to point out that the flock of sheep were a black-faced breed, perhaps Hampshire or Suffolk crosses. Shropshire sheep have a white woolly face. My father, Calvin Foster, […] Read more
Letters to the editor – November 17, 2022
Producers do not deserve to be attacked It was a mistake to print the opinions of Olam founder Sunny Verghese in the story “Modern Agriculture Must Reinvent” on the front page of the Oct. 27 Western Producer. Your readers are hardworking agricultural producers, yet your front page article tells us, “we cannot continue to produce […] Read more
Letters to the editor – November 10, 2022
Non-farmers should not tell farmers what to do I read with interest the front page article of Oct. 27 with the heading, “Modern agriculture must reinvent.” The chief executive officer of Olam, a processing and distribution company based out of Singapore, strongly suggests we in North America have to change our farming and ranching practices. […] Read more
Letters to the editor – October 27, 2022
Guebert nails it The article by Alan Guebert in the October 20 edition of the Producer was simply outstanding. Perhaps it was special for me because I could identify with a lot of what he said. During the last period of inflation, 1980s, many of the same discussions as now were going on. I remember an […] Read more
Letters to the editor – October 20, 2022
Lake Winnipeg must be saved Re: Laws needed to protect Great Lakes from farm runoff, joint commission reports. (CBC story – Jan. 19, 2017) “Voluntary measures to protect the Great Lakes from farm manure have proven inefficient and governments should now turn their minds to legislation, a binational report concludes.” Does that sound familiar? It […] Read more
Letters to the editor – October 6, 2022
Work-around found for jar lid pickle Viceroy to the rescue. Farmers who relied on 78 mm lids were put in a pickle by Bernardin this year. However, I have discovered that the rubber rings made by Viceroy work well with used Bernardin lids, even though the rubbers were intended for use with glass lids. Simply […] Read more
Letters to the editor – September 29, 2022
Photo of unsafe practices should not have been published I was looking at a photo on Page 4 of the Sept. 1 issue and became very angry — anger at what was happening in the photo and anger at you for printing it. The person is reaching in with her hand to collect the sample […] Read more
Letters to the editor – September 15, 2022
Studies should not be mistaken for facts I have been reading a lot of articles about the proposed 30 percent emissions reduction from fertilizer use. Both pros and cons are referring to some study that states a number of 12.75 million tonnes of emissions in 2019. I have a good knowledge of soils and fertilizer […] Read more
Letters to the editor – September 1, 2022
Fertilizer tariff unfair to producers We appreciated the article The Western Producer published in late July about the 35 percent tariff that is hitting farmers today even before any regulations are in place. There has not been much media coverage on this tariff on Russian fertilizer that no other G7 country, including the U.S., is […] Read more
