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Jack Dawes listens as Germain Lehoux talks about his dairy farm during a Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation tour in Quebec in 2017. Lehoux’s daughter, Marie-Eve Lehoux, looks on in the background.
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Comment: Where do you want to go?

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There is no shortage of problems and issues to try to untangle, but focusing exclusively on obstacles isn’t helpful. We also need to set our sights on the direction we want to go. “Don’t look at the ground, or that’s where you’ll end up,” goes the old equestrian adage. We can chart a course by […] Read more
Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot, painting by Berthelemy ca. 1767.
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Comment: Wicked problems and Gordian knots

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Charlie Gracey references the Gordian knot in his article on the producer’s share of the retail dollar in our August issue of Canadian Cattlemen, and I’ve been thinking about it since I first read it.  The Gordian knot has its origins in an ancient Greek legend. An oracle predicted that the next man to drive […] Read more
blue green algae
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Pond scum: blue-green algae and cattle

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It’s a routine summer day of checking cattle, maybe repairing a bit of fence. Nothing too stressful, at least until you see the dugout you’re using as a water source for your cattle, which has algae in it. Now what? The first question is whether it’s blue-green algae, which can release toxins harmful to cattle, […] Read more
We still haven’t reconciled the clash between economics and nature that Joni Mitchell sang about.
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Comment: Are we going to save or pave paradise?

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It was an odd feeling, sitting in the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) environmental committee meeting in Ottawa in March with Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi stuck in my head. Discussions around conserving forage and grasslands triggered the earworm, and lyrics about not knowing “what you’ve got, til it’s gone” seemed apt. Later, in the hallways […] Read more
Refugees from Ukraine wait at the Ukrainian-Slovakian border on March 4, 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine which began on February 24, 2022.
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Comment: Agriculture and hope go hand in hand

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It’s no coincidence that War and Famine ride together as part of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Humans have known for a long time that war breeds hunger, and hunger brings war, so it’s not surprising that knowledge is encoded in a major religious text such as the Bible. Of course, pestilence is also […] Read more
A cow and calf in the late winter.
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Comment: Managing market risk

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We don’t know what 2022 has in store for us — hopefully rain at the right time and good cattle prices all through the fall. But hoping is not planning, and to plan, you need good information. So what should producers be watching in the markets as the year progresses? I asked Brian Perillat, senior […] Read more
Geopolitically, it’s going be the “wild, woolly West until we get the WTO more fully functioning and that can take a lot of twists and turns,” said one member of a panel discussing trade at a recent conference.
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Comment: Toiling in the mines for trade

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Given everything that’s happening globally, it must take relentless optimism and determination to maintain existing trade relationships and broker new ones these days. That was my main impression as I watched a trade panel organized by the North American Association of Ag Journalists in late 2021. The panel comprised three trade veterans: Gregg Doud, who […] Read more
Although farming and nature-based solutions are seen as 30 per cent of the climate change solution, only an estimated three to seven per cent of financing is directed to that sector.
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Comment: The time is now

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Last month, I touched on the opportunity to flip discussions around methane and the beef industry into a positive. However, it occurred to me afterward that some readers might have walked away with the impression that I have no qualms about the potential effect of government regulations and policy around methane on the beef industry. […] Read more
What if the beef industry could flip the public discourse on cattle and climate change from a threat to an opportunity?
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Comment: The whole picture

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A few years ago, a friend and I came upon an accident on the highway just after dusk. A car and tractor had collided head-on. We were on the scene ahead of the first responders, so we stayed to help. The tractor had broken in half, which gives you an idea of how much force […] Read more

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