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Trailering horses has become very common and doing it correctly will make the animal healthier,  happier and more willing to co-operate.

Important considerations when trailering horses

Horse Health: Doing it right can dramatically reduce the stresses placed on horses in transport

By Carol Shwetz August 2, 2017

Trailering of horses has dramatically increased in frequency over the last decade with horses travelling to and from sales, competitions, shows, trail riding, equine vacations, breeding and more. Some travel may be as short as an hour while other trips may involve many hours, perhaps even a few days of trailering. Considerable physical, psychological, and

Our History

Year of “The Big Wet” drowns a million acres

Our History: July 1999

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 2, 2017

It was called the year of “The Big Wet” — in 1999 the normally dryish southwest corner of the province suffered repeated deluges which drowned almost a million acres of cropland. Unfortunately it was the precursor of more wet years. The bad news that week was that federal Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief had told Manitoba

This small outbuilding near Gilbert Plains is a designated heritage site, as one of the few beef ring buildings still standing in Manitoba.

Country Crossroads

Beef rings speak volumes of local history

These early informal co-operatives kept beef on the table in the warm summer months before refrigeration

By John Beckham August 1, 2017

The recorded history of the settling of Western Canada is a sketchy affair. I am not referring to history as we ordinarily think of it, such as treaties, battles, or political decisions, but rather the histories of families, communities, and the evolution of a society largely cast upon their own devices in what was a

Confirmed cases of equine infectious anemia in Manitoba are keeping some horses off the short circuit this year.

Livestock, Local news

Ag societies turn to mandatory testing as EIA scare continues

Horse owners on the summer fair and rodeo circuit may want to recheck the rules as some  ag societies implement mandatory Coggins testing

By Alexis Stockford August 1, 2017

Manitoba’s horse show circuit is feeling the effects of efforts to avoid further spreading equine infectious anemia (EIA) after several carriers were identified in the province. The outbreak has shut down all horse shows in the Interlake region this summer and prompted other show organizers to require advance testing of all horses attending their events.

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Winter wheat, rye harvest begins, many areas dry

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for July 31

By Manitoba Agriculture July 31, 2017

Winter wheat and fall rye harvest is underway in Central Manitoba. Grass seed harvest has begun in Central Manitoba and the Interlake. Many regions in the province are below normal precipitation and would benefit from rain. Most of the Southwest and Northwest received less than 5 mm of rain over the past week. Heat unit

Crops

French farmers fume as government rejigs EU subsidies

By GFM Network News, Sybille De La Hamaide July 27, 2017

Paris / Reuters – French farm unions cried foul over a government decision on Thursday to use part of European Union direct payments linked to output to finance rural development projects such as fast growing organic farming. The decision comes just days after France launched wide debate on the future of the food sector, aiming to

Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: High pressure set to dominate for the next few days

Issued July 24, 2017 – Covering the period from July 26 to August 2, 2017

By Daniel Bezte July 27, 2017

So far this summer forecasting the weather has been tough, to say the least. We’ve basically been in a battle between a ridge of high pressure to our southwest and an active storm track to our north. Every time the weather models predict that the ridge of high pressure will win out, a storm system

Trading returned to the pit of the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange following the end of the Great War, as it was then known.

Local news

Between the wars

Canada 150: A postwar bust, political activism, the Great Depression  and the formation of the Canadian Wheat Board  marked the interwar years in Manitoba agriculture

By Alex Campbell July 26, 2017

As the smoke cleared from the battlefields of Europe, the landscape had changed dramatically for Winnipeg, Manitoba and Prairie agriculture generally, particularly in the area of grain marketing. While the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and the wheat futures market reopened in August 1920, the experience of farmers with the 1919 wheat board was positive and led

Livestock

Livestock premises ID participation strengthens Canadian agriculture

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 26, 2017

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is considering changes to the Health of Animals Regulations for livestock traceability, the agency announced during PremisesIDWeek July 26, a federal release says. The changes would require all Canadian operators of premises where livestock may be loaded or unloaded from a vehicle to have a valid premises identification number for

Greg Steele, Before Brandon exhibit guest curator, displays a replica paddle styled similarly to what would have been used by voyageurs during the fur trade in the Brandon area.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Before Brandon was the Wheat City

Brandon was established as a city in 1882, but trading outposts along the Assiniboine River predate that mark by decades and are the subject of a museum exhibit at the Brandon General Museum and Archives

By Alexis Stockford July 25, 2017

In most tellings, Brandon is a city that appeared from nowhere, fuelled by agricultural settlement. In 1881 it was a single shanty, and just 12 months later it was the province’s first western city, the Wheat City. Local history buffs will recount how rail plans were moved 50 kilometres south in the 1870s, in line

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures spike, hogs mixed

U.S. grains: Soybean ease on harvest pressure, competition from Brazil

Russia’s top agriculture official blames low global grain prices for export slowdown

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