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Freezing fruits and veggies can keep them at their best if the proper procedures are followed.

Freezing your bounty of fruits and vegetables

Prairie Fare: As gardens hit high gear, it’s time to preserve some of the excess for the coming winter

By Getty Stewart July 27, 2018

Freezing is an easy, convenient and affordable way to preserve fruits and vegetables. In fact, when fresh produce is frozen shortly after being harvested, it can contain more nutrients than fresh vegetables that have been shipped long distances or stored in warehouses or on retail shelves. If you have a garden, a neighbour with surplus

National job vacancy rate increases in ag sector

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries July 15, 2018

CNS Canada — The national job vacancy rate in the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting sector is increasing compared to the same period a year ago. Data for the first quarter of 2018, ending April 30, showed a vacancy rate of 6.9 per cent in the sector compared to 5.3 per cent in the first

Darren and Angie Cormier, shown here May 31, operate Cormier's Berry Patch at La Salle.

News

Fruit-picking season has arrived

By Lorraine Stevenson June 29, 2018

U-pick fruit farms are seeing a resurgence in customers as families and friends make a day trip of heading out to pick strawberries and other locally grown fruits

Berry-picking season is just days away and for some winter-weary Manitobans it can’t come soon enough. Some growers had eager customers show up in mid-May. “It was like, ‘we’re here and where’s the strawberries?’” said Darren Cormier who with his wife Angie Cormier operates a 10-acre strawberry field at La Salle. Customers are genuinely excited

A+W’s Beyond Meat Burger. (A+W/CNW Group)

Crops, Pulses

A+W to launch pulseburger next month

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 21, 2018

Canada’s second-biggest burger chain plans to roll out a new non-meat burger in the Canadian market starting in July. A+W Food Services of Canada on Thursday announced a July 9 release date for what it’s dubbed the Beyond Meat Burger at all its restaurants across the country, in what CEO Susan Senecal called “the fastest

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House in Washington on June 18. (Photo: Reuters/Leah Millis)

Crops

Trump’s tariff war threatens to erode support of farmers

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub June 18, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — President Donald Trump’s tariff battle with key buyers of U.S. apples, soybeans and corn threatens the support of some of his biggest backers — U.S. farmers now seeing their livelihoods in jeopardy. Farmers overwhelmingly supported Trump in the 2016 election, welcoming how he championed rural economies and vowed to repeal estate

Cutting into these apples revealed the many brown tunnels made by maggots; the apples were inedible.

Country Crossroads

Protecting against apple maggots

There are a couple of things that can be done to prevent this pest from destroying your apples

By Albert Parsons June 8, 2018

Last summer, friends brought my wife and I two big bags of apples from their tree. They were quite large and looked wonderful, but we soon discovered that most of them were inedible because they were full of dark-brown tunnels — a sure sign that they were infested with apple maggots. The life of the

Ontario ag minister downed in Tories’ election win

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 8, 2018

The Ontario Liberals’ minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs is among the election-night casualties as the province’s Progressive Conservatives get set to form a majority government. As of midnight CT Friday, Doug Ford’s Tories were elected or leading in 76 of 124 ridings, followed by Andrea Horwath’s New Democrats in 40 and Kathleen Wynne’s

Livestock, Markets

Mexico hits back on U.S. steel, slaps tariffs on pork, bourbon

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 6, 2018

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico responded in kind to U.S. President Donald Trump’s metals tariffs by imposing its own duties on U.S. steel on Tuesday, while also targeting politically sensitive agricultural products from pork to bourbon. Mexico’s peso tumbled to its weakest level since February 2017, leading losses among major currencies due to the

Crops

China customs expanding checks on U.S. fruit imports

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, Yawen Chen May 5, 2018

Beijing/Chicago | Reuters –– China’s major ports of entry have ramped up checks on fresh fruit imports from the U.S., five Chinese industry sources said, which could delay shipments from U.S. growers already dealing with higher tariffs as Sino-U.S. trade ties worsen. Fruits were among 128 U.S. goods that China slapped with more expensive import

Beef cattle, Livestock

Refund scam flagged by Canadian beef breeders

By Alexis Stockford, GFM Network News March 3, 2018

Canadian cattle breeders should be on their guard after reports of an online scam. The Canadian Beef Breeds Council issued a warning after numerous producers reported fake emails looking to set up a sale, then requesting a refund before cheques clear. “It’s generally pretty high dollar values, so it gets the people excited that they’ve

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end limit down

AAFC makes few changes to November S/D report

U.S. grains: Soybeans turn lower on Chinese demand uncertainty; corn mixed, wheat falls

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