Thoughts from the editor’s desk on how a foreign government’s decisions — tariffs, revenge tariffs, attempts at market manipulation — all ultimately weigh on the prices farmers and ranchers receive for their work.
Editor’s column
Editor’s Rant: The day someone voted for
U.S. farmers and ranchers are mystified by the Trump administration’s latest largesse to Argentina
Editor’s Rant: Resistance is not futile
It was a rough September for errors
A recounting of errors from the September 2025 print editions of Grainews, details of which are painful to the editor.
Editor’s Rant: Reward v. risk
Where’s the incentive for early adopters?
A new report suggests Canadian farmers need to proactively focus on reducing the risks now covered by government-backed business risk management (BRM) programs — but will need supports to do so.
Editor’s Rant: Over/underwhelmed
Whether existing ag programs fit the bill or not, expect the feds to try to shoehorn problems into them
Successive federal governments have been working to get out of the ad-hoc farm payment business — so whether existing programs fit the bill or not, it’s unsurprising when the feds try to shoehorn problems into one or more of those.
Editor’s Rant: Canada’s fortune cookie
There’s more we all have in common than not
The problem with separatism lies in a suggestion advanced by many avowed separatists: that the people of the West are rooted in culture and values the rest of Canada doesn’t share and/or refuses to understand.
Western Canadian agriculture’s growing thirst
Editor’s Boss: Atmospheric dryness is adding a third dimension to the moisture equation driving Prairie crop yields and wildfires
Earth’s air is getting thirstier — a desiccating phenomenon researchers say has increased the intensity of global droughts by 40 per cent over the past four decades.
Editor’s Rant: All eggs, no basket
Bill C-202 wound up pitting farmer against farmer at the worst time
Bill C-202 wound up pitting farmer against farmer for political reasons at a time when an unwritten law of Canadian politics remains very much in effect anyway.
Editor’s Rant: A flipped script
Borrow from the playbook of a volatile, unpredictable public figure at your peril
In hindsight it may have been a bad idea for the opposition leader to borrow heavily from the playbook of a volatile, unpredictable public figure and hope that figure remained a stable and consistent friend to Canada through a Canadian election cycle.
Editor’s Rant: The coffee conundrum
The “end of the road” for glyphosate is a swamp of litigation
To be sure, many cancers are no hot coffee burn; it’s difficult at best to assign an indisputable exact cause to cancer. Going by the jury awards against Bayer so far, though, the company may well wish it had been in the coffee business instead.
Editor’s Rant: Contents under pressure
In the context of current events, matters such as the well-being of the ag sector are discussed in this election cycle mainly in terms of collateral damage
In the context of current events, matters such as the well-being of the ag sector are discussed in this election cycle mainly in terms of collateral damage.
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
