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Prairie Routes Research

Brenda Tjaden

The de-commodification of farmers, and the re-valuation of ecosystems. The economics of change across the food system - prices, policies, logistics, local pulls and global bottlenecks.

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Latest Issues

The Labor-Technology Interface

Looking back, the expansion of an average farm’s equipment and land base, along with the increasing scale of confinement livestock systems, removed much of the traditional human workload. Rural towns got smaller and economies weakened as a...

7 days ago
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Why Prairie Routes Research?

Over the past 3 1/2 years, this market research series has taken a few different twists and turns.

  1. First, it was a brain dump to document the results of years of research I’d been doing behind the scenes on tracing, branding and veri...
15 days ago
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Where Are the Alternatives?

In failing to keep pace with the registration of effective new biologicals, Canadian regulators have institutionalized high-input, high-emissions and unprofitable grain production. When it comes to reducing farmers’ reliance on synthetic cr...

23 days ago
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Different Farms, Same Investing Challenges

Picture this: for your entire farming career, people have peered across at your muddy boots, complex business model, demanding hours and that ‘distinct aura’ that can follow those who spend a lot of time with livestock. Now, after recent tr...

a month ago
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"Like Earthquakes"

It all started changing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sanctions disrupted longstanding trading in energy-based commodities into Europe, forcing prices higher and supply chain flows to be reshaped.

Then came the tariffs. Since China an...

a month ago
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