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Thrift store continues to give back to community

By Darrell Nesbitt March 6, 2019

With donated merchandise offered for sale for only a few dollars, the Value Shoppe in Birtle has given back over $115,000 to the community since its inception over a decade ago. Introduced in January 2005, the non-profit thrift shop moved to its present location on Main Street nine years later as it needed a larger[...]

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Escape winter in an escape room

By Barb Galbraith February 27, 2019

Feel like you’re in a rut with winter activities? Want to escape? Try an escape room. Winnipeg offers several, but the fun has spilled over the perimeter to four rural locations. Locked room challenges pit groups against a time constraint — usually one hour — to find clues to freedom. (Safety protocols prohibit locking people[...]

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Where are all the heavy horses?

By Brenda Hunter March 25, 2019

Just 15 years ago the heavy horse show at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair was so popular that there had to be a draw to determine who would be awarded one of the 16 coveted show slots. Last year however, just eight teams participated in the show. This year there could be even fewer, disappointing[...]

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Russell veterinarian also a practising farrier

By Darrell Nesbitt April 2, 2019

Problem solving and hard work is how Dr. Cindy Lukianchuk, a veterinarian at the Russell & District Veterinary Clinic, sums up what travelling to farms raising cattle, bison or horses within the Parkland region means to her. The 2015 graduate of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine began searching for a job while attending farrier[...]

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Backsetting revisited

By Alex Campbell February 20, 2019

In 2018, the Manitoba Agricultural Museum wrote on the backsetting method of breaking virgin sod. A reader, Mr. Bollman, contacted us to inform the museum that there is more information on backsetting in the book Profitable Grain Growing, written in 1919 by Seager Wheeler, a noted agronomist and grain grower of the time, known as[...]

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Put profitability first, conference speaker says

By Lorraine Stevenson November 8, 2017

Know your numbers. It’s key to survival. That was a repeated message among speakers at last week’s Dauphin conference, from small farm owners to artisanal syrup makers to those operating long-standing car dealerships. All stressed the importance of knowing costs of production and staying on top of financials to stay in the game. Yet, business[...]

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Is it safe to eat canned food past its best-before date?

By Bev Betkowski December 14, 2018

Are those forgotten cans of food in the cupboard that are years past their best-before dates, still safe to use? Very likely, say University of Alberta food scientists. Cans are sealed tightly against air and light, the culprits behind food spoilage, so they have a shelf life that lasts for years, said U of A[...]

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Strathclair class digs deep into provincial history

By Darrell Nesbitt March 19, 2019

Many young people no longer know a world where there was an alternative to the internet when doing a school project, such as going to the local library or picking up an encyclopedia. Although teaching is different than it used to be, schools continue to implement change in finding ways to arm students with the[...]

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Small, ethically run farm raises rabbits and sheep

By Candy Irwin February 27, 2019

Seven Bells Fold (SBF) is the name of the farm owned by Bonny McKay and Dale Lucey, located just off PR No. 470, between Onanole and Sandy Lake. The name came about from the fact that both sets of McKay’s grandparents were fishers or seafarers on Canada’s East Coast and in order to operate 24[...]

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This place is a sty

By Alex Campbell March 13, 2019

Looking through photographs recently donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum, the interpretation committee became interested in a photograph of a straw stack. This photo appears to be fairly old, probably pre-First World War so it was taken at a time when photos were expensive which led to the question, why would the photographer have taken[...]

Interest in biological crop inputs continues to grow

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Interest in biological crop inputs continues to grow

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans extend losses as Midwest weather looks crop-friendly

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit fresh peaks on shrinking supplies, strong cash prices

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Thrift store continues to give back to community

Escape winter in an escape room

Where are all the heavy horses?

Russell veterinarian also a practising farrier

Backsetting revisited

Put profitability first, conference speaker says

Is it safe to eat canned food past its best-before date?

Strathclair class digs deep into provincial history

Small, ethically run farm raises rabbits and sheep

This place is a sty

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