December 14 & 15 | Edmonton, AB A two-day marketing course featuring presentations and hands-on trading exercises to help understand the futures market, hedging and options strategies. February 15 & 16 | Red Deer, AB This two-day conference covers business structures, succession planning, and liability and risk management with Alberta’s best farm financial advisors. February...
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The Editor's Desk
Lake Effect
I swam in Chain Lakes this past summer for the first time since I was nine. The Chain Lakes I know is a string of three tiny lakes in Southwest Manitoba, just off Highway 21 between Hartney and Deloraine. My family’s farm – the place I grew up and where my brother and his family...
Read MoreGM labelling: A cat and mouse game?
U.S. Congress passed a new National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, which will require food manufacturers to disclose any genetically-modified ingredient in their products.
Why Jack in the Box uses canola oil
Fast-food chain Jack in the Box switched its frying oil to high-oleic canola oil. Why? And what will keep it that way?
Fundamental transportation issues remain
Grain moved well over the past crop year, but important fundamental changes are required to maintain these same successes over the longterm.