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Janos Botschner, a researcher with the Community Safety Knowledge Alliance, speaks at CropConnect in Winnipeg on Feb. 12.
Equipment, Features

Farming community needs to talk more about cybersecurity

The technology now brought to bear in farming makes farms more vulnerable to digital threats

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Glacier FarmMedia — Talking about cybersecurity not only raises awareness in the farming community — it can help reduce the stigma suffered by those victimized by cyberattacks. That was the message from Janos Botschner, a behavioural scientist and researcher with the Community Safety Knowledge Alliance. Botschner spoke at the CropConnect Conference in Winnipeg on Feb. […] Read more
Editor’s Rant: We’re all Phil now
Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: We’re all Phil now

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It’s been a long time since I’ve watched the movie Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray plays a weatherman doomed to live out the same day over and over again, but I’d say that to see pundits talking — on and around Groundhog Day, of all days — about the suddenly urgent need to diversify Canada’s […] Read more
Viterra’s Coulter Avenue elevator in Winnipeg on Jan. 22.
Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Canadian graffiti

The government's conditions for a Bunge/Viterra marriage left much to be desired

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I’ve got to admit, I’ve never fully understood the geometry behind federal regulators’ decisions on which assets a company has to sell in exchange for clearance on a big merger or takeover. There may well have been a solid reason why, after Husky sold off its retail gas stations in 2022, our neighbourhood wound up […] Read more
The crisis line is available at 1-866-FARMS01 (1-866-327-6701) to provide confidential assistance to those in need (Photo: Andrii Zorii/Getty Images)
General, News

Launching National Farmer Crisis Line

Crisis line is available at 1-866-FARMS01 (1-866-327-6701)

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As farming gleans stress from a variety of sources, the Canadian Centre for Agricultural Wellbeing announced on Feb. 4 that it has set up the National Farmer Wellness Network. The crisis line is available free of charge and was designed specifically for the mental health challenges faced by Canadian farmers, their families as well as […] Read more
Tariffs will be ‘devastating’
News

Tariffs will be ‘devastating’

Farm groups react as U.S. inches closer to tariffs

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Canadian farm groups react to Trump tariffs. The Canadian government has announced plans to impose its own tariffs on U.S. imports as soon as the American tariffs go into effect
The two-striped grasshopper has two pale stripes that extend from its eyes to the tips of its forewings and solid black stripes on its hind legs.
Crops, Livestock

PMRA plans to reinstate lambda-cy use in feed grain crops

PMRA to update guidance, cancel some uses in fruit

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Canadian grain and oilseed growers who’d had to stop using insecticides such as Matador, Silencer and Voliam in 2023 for feed grain crops can expect to be able to use them again starting this spring. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) on Monday (Feb. 3) announced a round of public consultations, to run until […] Read more
Editor’s Rant: Lights out
Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Lights out

Thoughts on green policy-making ahead of Justin Trudeau's departure

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Up on the shelf where we keep light bulbs of assorted sizes and wattages, I just happened across an old compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) — remember, those bulbs that looked like an Arby’s curly fry wrapped in thin white glass? Talk about a relic from a bygone time in western civilization when, it seemed, the […] Read more
viterra
Crops, News

Ottawa blesses Bunge’s Viterra takeover, with conditions

Merged firm must sell six elevators, keep distance from G3

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Canada’s federal government will allow the acquisition of major Canadian grain firm Viterra by one of the world’s biggest grain industry players, but not without conditions. Federal Transport Minister Anita Anand on Tuesday announced the government’s decision to approve Viterra’s acquisition by U.S.-based Bunge, the ‘B’ in the ‘ABCD’ group of the world’s most influential […] Read more

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