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One of the more interesting decisions to be announced in last month’s federal government budget concerned the venerable penny. Minister Flaherty said he was about to make it extinct. It simply isn’t worthwhile producing anymore in the government’s view. The discussion around that decision reminded me of something that happened a few weeks earlier. As […] Read more

In his blog this week, Lee Hart takes a look at the pending Viterra takeover deal and ponders this question: when does big business become too big for its own good? Shortly after I read Lee’s blog, I came across another reminder that all businesses seem to be getting bigger. A press release from Ritchie […] Read more

Every month a variety of publications end up in my mailbox, and I usually make a point of looking through all of them. The amount of information contained in farm magazines and newspapers is incredible. When you read through one of them—especially ours (I’m bragging here)—you get to learn in a few minutes what it […] Read more