Winkler cidery opens orchard-side tasting room

Winkler cidery opens orchard-side tasting room

Once a vegetable farm, Dead Horse Cider is making award-winning forays into fabulous flavour

Tasting notes of tequila, lime, strawberry and… horse blanket? Think hayloft, not manure, says Dead Horse Cider founder Marcus Wiebe. He ushers a Manitoba Co-operator reporter over to the taps in the Winkler cidery’s sun-dappled tasting room. After tasting the funky crispness of the Backyard Blend, made entirely from local apples, it makes sense. There

File photo of the Agropur logo on its former fluid milk plant in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Agropur backs major upgrades for Nova Scotia ice cream plant

Dairy co-op puts up $34M to 'redefine space' at Truro

Major dairy co-operative Agropur is putting up eight figures to upgrade an ice cream and frozen novelties plant it owns in Nova Scotia to handle new premium product lines. The co-operative said June 17 it will invest $34 million in the former Scotsburn plant at Truro, to “redefine the space within the plant (and) support


Kellogg’s Canadian operations include its Mini-Wheats plant at Belleville, Ont. and its Canadian office in Mississauga. Other cereals and snack brands imported by Kellogg Canada are produced elsewhere in North America, the company says. (Kellogg Co. photo)

Kellogg to spin off into three food companies

Plant-based foods, North American cereals to be hived off

The company that makes Mini-Wheats cereal, Pringles potato crisps and MorningStar veggie burgers now plans to see those each of those three product lines go their separate ways by the end of next year. Michigan-based Kellogg Co. said Tuesday its board has approved a plan to break into three yet-to-be-named independent publicly-traded companies by way

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Mid-year farm gate price hike approved for milk

Processors say incremental hike may soften impact on consumers

A request from Canada’s dairy farmer organization for an unscheduled increase in the current farm gate price for milk, to help farmers catch up with steep rises in their costs of production, has been granted. The Canadian Dairy Commission said Tuesday it will recommend that the farm gate price for milk be increased effective Sept.


Funding, people needed for strategic protein research: report

Funding, people needed for strategic protein research: report

The province released its Manitoba Protein Research Strategy on June 8

The province has taken another step towards boosting protein research, but governments will need to cough up cash and find more people and equipment to make it happen, survey data shows. “One of the key pillars of the Manitoba Protein Advantage is the harnessing of the great wealth of agri-food knowledge and research expertise in our province,” said

In a mere few months, ground beef (seen here) and pork, two unprocessed, natural, and affordable animal protein sources, will be labelled as having too much saturated fat.

Comment: Health Canada sees some saturated fats as more equal than others

This incoherent decision seems to be driven by ideology and special interests not facts

Looks like we will all see different symbols on food packaging soon, telling us whether a food product at the grocery store has too much fat, sugar or sodium. Health Canada is likely going forward shortly with a policy requiring front-of-package nutrition symbols on foods high in saturated fat, sugars and sodium. It’s a concept


Maksymenko uses Canadian-made zero-till equipment to sow his fields.

Ukrainian farmers responsible for wider community during war

Maxym Maksymenko farms just a few miles from the front in southern Ukraine

As I wrote earlier, almost every Ukrainian farmer has to take care of more than just his family. If he cultivates more than 1,000 hectares of land, this means that he is forced to help solve the social problems of the inhabitants of nearby settlements. Moreover, it is completely voluntary, since the state does not

U.K. seeks investigation into alleged Ukraine grain theft

British farm minister says she’s heard ‘very serious’ allegations against Russia

Reuters – Britain’s farming minister has called for an immediate investigation into allegations that Russia has been stealing grain from Ukraine, following Moscow’s invasion which has driven up world food prices to record levels. Black Sea ports in Ukraine, the world’s fourth-largest grains exporter, have been blocked since the invasion, with about 20 million tonnes



A stand of kernza, a perennial distant relative of wheat.

How scientific minds changed toward perennial grains

Early boosters were voices on the fringe: Today, perennial crops are sought by researchers worldwide — including Manitoba

In the early days of kernza — a perennial grain crop related to wheat — plant breeders at The Land Institute in Kansas couldn’t get a government grant to save their lives. “We got very nice compliments on our writing of the grant proposals and harsh criticism on the value of actually doing the work,”