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Continue ReadingPhilip Shaw's work is published across Canada and the United States. He is an accomplished speaker, journalist, commodity market commentator, agricultural economist and farmer from Dresden, Ontario, Canada.
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Continue ReadingSoybeans have become a real problem. What you say? Some of you must think I’ve been on the election trail too long. I’m not talking about stabilization policy; I’m not talking about foreign subsidization. The problem with soybeans is all about yield. If you believed the hype perpetuated by some in the agricultural marketing arena,…
Continue ReadingTerrorism, Politics and Poverty. By A.K. Enamul Haque, PhD. The year 2005 was an eventful year for all of us. In this year, we have seen a few major disasters – after the Tsunami (at the end of 2004) we had an earthquake in Pakistan. In Bangladesh, the socio-political situation has dramatically changed after 63…
Continue ReadingI’ve been writing my agricultural commentary for almost 20 years. Yes, I go back to 1986. Those were the Mulroney hay days. Interest rates were double digit then. The US farm bill was just beginning to rear its ugly head. There was something called Free Trade in the wind. Liberal leader John Turner rented a…
Continue ReadingNext week at this time, it’ll be over. The longest federal election campaign in many years will have come to an end. And if you missed it, I want to quote from publisher John Gardiner’s column “Notes From The Garage” last week. He had me laughing. Here is part of what he wrote. “Well, it’s…
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