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Protestors’ vehicles block the Ambassador Bridge on Feb. 8, 2022. If supply chains are the backbone of our economy, the border is its spinal cord.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Invoking the Emergencies Act also about Canada’s reputation

When so much of our economy crosses the border disruptions are poison

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In recent days, many Canadians watched in disbelief when protesters easily blocked many access points between the United States and Canada. For six painful days, this included the Ambassador Bridge, a key trade conduit between the two countries, forcing trucks to be rerouted towards Sarnia. Other border crossings were disrupted in Manitoba and Alberta. Many
File photo of a Loblaw-owned Real Canadian Superstore location in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Markets

Loblaw beats estimates for quarterly revenue

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Reuters — Canadian retailer Loblaw Cos. beat market estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, as demand for groceries and other essential items stayed strong. The pandemic-led trend of cooking at home has sustained even as COVID curbs have eased, continuing to help sales at grocery stores that benefited during last year’s lockdowns. Companies such as
Comment: Making pork chops flow uphill
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Making pork chops flow uphill

Duelling reports from industry economists full of bafflegab

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For more than 40 years my father farmed within a mile of where the Kaskaskia River met the Mississippi deep in southern Illinois. That meant he had two, lifetime partners: the river and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, landlords of the levees that guarded our wedge of the Great American Bottoms. Dad never argued
An idea to take food waste and turn it into a charcoal-like product aims to bolster soil carbon and divert it away from landfills.
News

Manitoba company locks funds for biochar development

Carbon Lock Technologies hopes to recycle carbon from food waste into farm fields

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A local company’s plan to turn food waste into stable biocarbon, which can then be used as a soil additive, has earned them eight months of federal support. Carbon Lock Technologies was one of 18 companies, and the only Manitoba business, to be named a semi-finalist in the novel technologies stream of the federal government’s
Unlike other food products, due to the state-sanctioned public quota regime, milk is nothing less than a public good.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Canada’s white gold

Milk prices are anything but transparent under the current system

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It goes without saying that milk and cream are important foodstuffs in our diet. Cheese, yogurt, and butter; these products are cherished by many people and will force average households to spend between 10 and 15 per cent of their food budget on them. Our love for dairy products will be put to the test
Shannon Hayes farms with her family in New York state and is the author of Redefining Rich and six other books.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Direct-market farmers on diversifying without sapping the joy from farming

Beat burnout by making decisions based on the quality of life you want, says author, farmer and chef, Shannon Hayes

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How do you know when you’ve over-diversified the farm? The question came up during the Direct Marketing Conference, held virtually February 3-5 during a panel on diversification led by three farming women. Lourdes Still farms flowers she turns into dye for lavish wearable art and experiential tourism. Anna Hunter raises sheep, mills wool, and teaches
Greenhouse manager Carmen Grey lifts a raft of lettuce to show the roots underneath.
Farmit Manitoba

Synergistic farming system teaches kids business, science

MBTI’s aquaponics operation grows fish and fresh produce in the heart of Winnipeg

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Outside snow is piled high and despite the bright sun, it’s a frigid Winnipeg afternoon. Cars whiz by on McPhillips Street. But out of sight of traffic and the railway tracks, fish swirl past the windows of two blue tanks and lettuce, chard and herbs dangle roots from bobbing Styrofoam rafts. In a warm, sunlit
Soil biology is garnering more attention as crop input costs rise.
News

Farmers test microbes to nourish crops as climate pressure grows, costs rise

Soil biologicals are getting a lot of attention — and research money — in the past couple of years

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Reuters – Tech companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars, including backing from agriculture heavyweights like Bayer AG, in developing farm products that use living things like microbes and seaweed to nourish crops and lessen the need for synthetic fertilizer. Microbes, including fungi and viruses, have been available for decades as treatments to protect
Photo of an RCMP vehicle attending the blockade at Emerson, Man. dated Feb. 11, 2022. (Photo courtesy Manitoba RCMP)
Livestock, Markets

Manitoba border blockade expected to end Wednesday

'Resolution' reached, Mounties say

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Another protest blockade of a key Canada-U.S. trade corridor is expected to wrap up by Wednesday. Manitoba RCMP on Tuesday reported they “are now confident that a resolution has been reached” with protestors who, since Thursday, have blockaded Highway 75 leading to the border crossing at Emerson, Man., about 100 km south of Winnipeg. The

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