Insights and Stories of Gord Gilmour

As globalization fades new strategies needed

Mar. 8, 2023 at 11:33 am CST

Don’t expect a return to normal geopolitical conditions — at least not if you think the past several decades were normal. That was Janice Gross Stein’s message March 8, in an opening address to the Canadian Crops Convention. The noted political scientist and founding director of the Munk School of […]

Charting Canada’s agricultural path forward

Mar. 7, 2023 at 5:08 pm CST

By Glacier FarmMedia staff Gord Gilmour

Farmers hear from national political leaders

Mar. 7, 2023 at 11:07 am CST

By Glacier FarmMedia staff Gord Gilmour

The path to attracting workers

Mar. 6, 2023 at 11:45 am CST

By Glacier FarmMedia staff Gord Gilmour

Manitoba’s wetlands a shadow of their former selves

May. 20, 2022 at 9:35 am CDT

By Gord Gilmour

Shippers call for essential service designation of railways

Apr. 8, 2022 at 9:20 am CDT

The recent railway labour disruption at Canadian Pacific Railways starkly underlines the transportation-related vulnerability of Canada’s agriculture sector, industry watchers say. An online seminar organized by the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) heard March 28 that fertilizer shipments in and out of the country are balanced on a knife edge, […]

By Gord Gilmour

Farmers Edge launches IPO

Mar. 3, 2021 at 5:03 pm CST

Manitoba’s best-known digital agriculture firm is now a publicly-traded company. Farmers Edge, founded in 2005 in Pilot Mound, Man. by agronomists Wade Barnes and Curtis MacKinnon, has carved out a niche using field-centric data, artificial intelligence and its FarmCommand data management platform. CEO Wade Barnes called it an exciting day […]

By Gord Gilmour

Canada’s mink farms brace for COVID

Nov. 26, 2020 at 8:18 pm CST

Canada’s 40 mink farms are operating under heightened biosecurity requirements after reports of COVID-19 jumping from humans to mink in Europe. Alan Herscovici, an industry spokesperson who operates the website Truthaboutfur.com, said early reports out of Denmark and other European countries gave Canadian producers some time to prepare. “These farms […]

By Gord Gilmour

Manitoba needs a farm labour plan

Feb. 14, 2020 at 9:31 am CST

The farm labour shortage is expected to hit Manitoba harder than any other province because of its diversity of agricultural products. That’s according to Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst, executive director of the Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council, who spoke last week at the Keystone Agricultural Producers annual meeting in Winnipeg. “Because of […]

By Gord Gilmour

Back to the future for grain price outlooks

Nov. 20, 2015 at 3:24 pm CST

If there were any lingering doubts over whether the grain price party is over, a few hours at this year’s Cereals North America conference last week firmly laid them to rest. Speaker after speaker set the scene for a melancholy outlook. Stocks are at or near record levels for many […]

By Gord Gilmour

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next »