You need only read the titles of his books to know Timothy Caulfield is no stranger to calling out misinformation. Caulfield is Canada's Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, as well as research director of the Health Law Institute at the... Read More
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Vermeer's 604R classic and signature balers are familiar to many, but in late 2019 the company added a premium baler to the series, which adds more options and benefits to the baler. Josh Vrieze, product manager with Vermeer, was on hand at the 2020 National Farm Machinery Show to talk about the added features. "The... Read More
The Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) was created in 1981, when 12 leaders came together with the vision of an agricultural research funding organization that consulted with farmers and worked with researchers. Since then, WGRF has provided more than $183 million in funding to support crop research projects. "It is a farmer organization," says Garth... Read More
Farm groups across the country have ramped up pressure on the federal government to address the impact of the federal carbon tax and to recognize agriculture's positive contributions in capturing greenhouse gases. Both Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) in Manitoba and the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) have released studies quantifying the cost of the... Read More
As technology evolves, more and more of the players in the machinery business are coming up with ways to store and track the data we get from our implements. With so many different moving parts, it begs the question — is there a way we can store our data cross-platform? CLAAS's recent launch of DataConnect... Read More
Life changed for business owner, comedian, and philanthropist Joe Pillitteri in 2008, when he suffered what he calls a "full breakdown." "I had bought the business the year before, and in 2008, as everyone remembers, the economy just kind of tanked, and so did the business — or at least I felt it did —... Read More
The Port of Vancouver enables the trade of approximately $200 billion in goods, and sustains $11.9 billion in GDP across Canada. It's forecasted to grow at about 3.5 per cent annually, and there is much to do to prepare for that level of growth. "We're very busy — have been very busy, looking 10-20 years... Read More
Fast forward 20 years to the year 2040. What will the world look like from a geopolitical perspective? The U.S. and China will still be locked in a "strategic competition" of some form says Jacob Shapiro, director of analysis for Geopolitical Futures, a Texas-based company that provides analysis on geopolitical trends. "I don't see a... Read More
The Pottinger Alpha Motion mower has been around since 1996, but with never-ending technology advancements come updates to machinery. At the end of 2019, the company released some updates to the implement to allow it to be more user-friendly. Marco Otten, sales manager for Pottinger, was at the National Farm Machinery Show at Louisville, Kentucky,... Read More
At the end of the day, canola growers and the industry that supports them all want the same thing — to increase yields, profitability, and sustainability, and reduce production risk. Curtis Rempel, vice president of crop production and innovation for the Canola Council of Canada (CCC), couldn't agree more, and he says it's our agronomic... Read More