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Editor’s Rant: Strike one, two, three, et cetera

By Dave Bedard May 28, 2024

By the time the paper version of this issue reaches you (around May 28), we’ll probably know whether Canada’s rail engineers, conductors and yard workers have reached a new collective bargaining agreement, or hit the picket line for yet another strike, or been legislated back to work. Prairie grain farmers have already seen this movie […] Read more

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Editor’s Rant: Fluency in flu

By Dave Bedard April 27, 2024

When this issue hits your mailbox (on or around May 7), we’ll be at about the peak of one of the best meteor showers Earth sees this year. Wishing on shooting stars is silly at best, but if I see one — other than my standing wish for seven bucks and the winning 6/49 ticket […] Read more

Columns, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Rant: On the payment plan

By Dave Bedard April 16, 2024

As much as I get the general idea behind raising interest rates to keep inflation in check, I do have to wonder if the Bank of Canada and other central banks quite grasp how much their rate hikes over the past couple of years have driven and continue to drive up the cost of literally […] Read more

Columns, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Rant: Product placement

By Dave Bedard April 4, 2024

It’s been many, many years since I was foolish enough to think I might have all the answers. In this space, be prepared to see me asking questions. At the very least — though I’ve also long since given up the idea of ever appearing on Jeopardy! — my responses will often be in the […] Read more

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Columns, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Rant: The customer is always right

By Dave Bedard March 20, 2024

Hi, my name’s Dave and I’m a Cheerios consumer. So I’ve got to admit, any news article that name-drops Cheerios grabs my attention much more effectively than an article mentioning, say, Taylor Swift. (I’ll stop here briefly as a public service to warn that if you somehow happened on this article by accident, that last […] Read more

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Editor’s Rant: All hail Skynet

By Dave Bedard February 27, 2024

Well, folks, my longtime colleague Lee Hart has done something even more impressive than usual over on page 14. Over the years I’ve read articles and columns in this paper that have left me concerned for farmers, concerned for their crops and livestock, concerned for my RRSPs and concerned for the economy, but his article […] Read more

Columns, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Rant: The cure for success

By Dave Bedard January 13, 2024

If I were asked to choose a favourite old adage about farming, I’d make up any excuse to avoid doing so. If pressed further, I’d offer up a classic such as “The cure for high prices is high prices.” As adages go, that one has it all: a caution to make hay while the sun […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Live and learn, it beats the alternative

By Dave Bedard December 6, 2023

Here’s the thing: I knew I wanted this column to be about learning, but after sitting here staring for far too long at the screen, blank except for that title and my name — pausing only to fall down a search rabbit hole about the origin of the word “poseur” — I figured I’d better […] Read more

“In terms of future marketing plans, keep a close eye on those production levels because even now the USDA is forecasting some very tight soybean ending stocks, and that’s going to influence canola prices.” – Bruce Burnett.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: A look at fall forecasts: weather, wheat and canola

By Kari Belanger September 19, 2023

Harvest is under way across the Prairies. At this time of year, I like to read the provincial crop reports to follow how harvest is progressing. Of the major crops, according to the reports I’m currently reading (it’s Sept. 5), harvest of winter wheat and fall rye is almost a wrap across the Prairies, followed […] Read more

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Editor’s Column: Jim goes to Ag in Motion, plus win a Grainews cap!

By Kari Belanger August 31, 2023

Ag in Motion held in Langham, Sask., is one of the year’s highlights for many farmers. The outdoor farm show, which was held July 18-20, had record-setting attendance this year, with 31,166 guests over three days! There was also a record 580 exhibitors. Canadian and international guests enjoyed ride and drives, crop plots with the […] Read more

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Editor’s Rant: Strike one, two, three, et cetera

Editor’s Rant: Fluency in flu

Editor’s Rant: On the payment plan

Editor’s Rant: Product placement

Editor’s Rant: The customer is always right

Editor’s Rant: All hail Skynet

Editor’s Rant: The cure for success

Editor’s Column: Live and learn, it beats the alternative

Editor’s Column: A look at fall forecasts: weather, wheat and canola

Editor’s Column: Jim goes to Ag in Motion, plus win a Grainews cap!

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