Insights and Stories of Gord Gilmour

Charting Canada’s agricultural path forward

Mar. 7, 2023 at 5:08 pm CST

John Stackhouse is a senior vice-president of Royal Bank of Canada and author of the Farmer 4.0 report that delves into the transformation of agriculture. Stackhouse was a participant in a panel discussion on innovation and resilience in agriculture at the Canadian Federation of Agriculture annual meeting in Ottawa on […]

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

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

Talking up the job: Creating common ground between farmer and consumer

Aug. 28, 2015 at 12:33 pm CDT

Every farmer has one. For Manitoba’s Rolf Penner, his “aha” moment came a few years back, when he suddenly realized just how hard it is for a farmer to talk to non-farmers about his business. Penner and a farming friend were on a weekend getaway with their spouses. Neither wife […]

By Gord Gilmour

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