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So long AIM — it was another good run

So long AIM — it was another good run

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It’s all over now except for the crying, folks. Ag In Motion (AIM) 2017 is history. And really the only crying that might be done, is by the dedicated volunteers and employees of the show who stay on the AIM grounds near Langham, SK for another 10 days to two weeks to clean up and
Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and his Saskatchewan counterpart Lyle Stewart signed onto a general agreement for a five-year federal/provincial funding framework on July 21. (Saskatchewan.ca)

Ministers agree on new ag funding framework

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Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial ministers for agriculture have agreed on the bones of a new five-year policy funding framework, committing them to a review of its business risk management (BRM) programming. The ministers came out of three days of meetings Friday in St. John’s with the “key elements” of a five-year, $3 billion framework,
Manitoba Agriculture land management specialist Marla Riekman (l) and Andrew Wilton and his father Doug Wilton examine the underwear that was planted April 18 and tighty-whities that were planted a foot away a month later after both were exhumed June 29 from Doug Wilton’s oat field between Jordan Siding and Miami, Man.
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Holey underwear shows soil health

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After two months in a zero-till field, this underwear was well on its way to being one with the earth

What a difference two months can make on the weather and tighty-whities buried in the soil. There wasn’t a lot left of the cotton underwear Marla Riekman buried in local farmer Doug Wilton’s zero-till field April 18, when she retrieved it June 29. “We can obviously see a lot of breakdown,” said Riekman, Manitoba Agriculture’s
Delegates from 35 countries take in an evening of local culture at the Canadian Museum of History during the Global 4-H Summit July 11-14, 2017, in Ottawa.
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4-H’ers make international ties at global summit in Ottawa

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Manitoba 4-H members were among representatives from 35 countries at the second Global 4-H Summit last week

They may have come from 35 different countries, but they had at least one thing in common — 4-H. Ottawa played host to 480 international delegates during the second Global 4-H Summit last week, about double the number at the first summit in Seoul, South Korea in 2014. “I think the most amazing part of
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
Columns, Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: A potential heat wave, again

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Last week’s forecast began with a much-stronger-than-anticipated area of low pressure that brought some welcome rains to a good portion of southern and central Manitoba. The rest of the forecast played out fairly well, but once again, the forecast heat didn’t really materialize as the western ridge of high pressure is continually knocked down every
KAP president Dan Mazier says AgriStability is not working for farmers and needs an overhaul.
News, News & Opinion

Farm coalition wants BRM review

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Brandon — When Canada’s agriculture ministers meet this week in St. John’s, N.L., a coalition of farm groups hopes they announce a “comprehensive review” of business risk management (BRM) programs. Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is among them. Manitoba’s general farm organization wants improvements to AgriInvest, and especially AgriStability. “(AgriStability) is not doing what it was
Purple prairie clover is just one in a long list of native species on rangelands that have ‘co-evolved’ with native pollinators.
Livestock

You want pollinators to make their home on your range

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There is a buzz on range-and pasture lands. And we really need to pay attention to native pollinators and the benefits that they provide, says a rangeland ecologist. “Pollinators are critical to rangelands themselves, and the plants that are there,” said Cameron Carlyle, an assistant professor at the University of Alberta, who is not only
Don Guilford (MBFI management committee chair), Katherine Kingdon (Co-op corporate secretary), Ken Jenner (Heritage Co-op president), Lorne Zacharias (Heritage Co-op general manager), Robin Hamilton (Ducks Unlimited Canada agronomist), Ramona Blyth (MBFI president), Glenn Friesen (Manitoba Agriculture, MBFI management committee), Duncan Morrison (Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association, MBFI management committee) and Brian Lemon (Manitoba Beef Producers general manager, MBFI management committee)
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MBFI Learning Centre site gets funding

Brookdale site is one of 27 projects supported across Western Canada 
by the Co-op Community Spaces program

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The Co-op Community Spaces program is putting $125,000 towards an educational centre at Brookdale that will serve as a site for both on-farm research and a place to learn about the role of agriculture in rural and urban communities. Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives (MBFI)’s Learning Centre of Excellence will be located at the research
Farmers Dennis Reimer (l) and Charles Schmidt, looking for rain. (Lee Hart photo)
Weather

AIM for Hart: An informative first day

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It’s official. If you want your province to dry out call Charles Schmidt. This climatological fact was among the many things I learned at the first day of the 2017 Ag In Motion (AIM) farm show near Langham, Sask. Tuesday (about 20 minutes from Saskatoon — the show is still running Wednesday and Thursday, so

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