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Alexandra Froese shows off Koko, a captive-born burrowing owl, during a recent bus tour of the Turtle Mountain Conservation District.
Livestock, Local news

Burrowing owls are returning to Manitoba pastures — with a little help

In total seven pairs are slated to be reintroduced to the wild this year 
through the Manitoba Burrowing Owl Recovery Program

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The burrowing owl has become largely non-existent in Manitoba since the 1980s, but one program is changing that. In 2010, then post-graduate student Alexandra Froese began a research project aimed at reintroducing the species, spending three seasons in the field and eventually gaining support from the Turtle Mountain Conservation District in 2011. In 2013, the
KAP is frustrated with the Manitoba government’s lack of information on a 
made-in-Manitoba carbon tax, KAP general manager James Battershill told delegates at KAP’s advisory council meeting in Brandon July 13.
Local news, Other

KAP frustrated by lack of detail on Manitoba’s carbon tax

A new Manitobans Against Carbon Taxes Coalition is pressuring the 
provincial government to join Saskatchewan to fight the tax

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Frustration is growing over a lack of information on Manitoba government’s carbon tax. “We are a little bit sick and tired of starting to negotiate and discuss this issue in a vacuum without information from the province on what it is looking at,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) general manager James Bat­ters­hill told KAP delegates at
An adult small hive beetle. (Omafra.gov.on.ca)
Livestock

Small hive beetle appears in New Brunswick

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An emerging pest in honeybee colonies has made its way into New Brunswick for the first time. The province’s agriculture department last month quarantined 12 beekeepers’ colonies that were in “close proximity” to colonies imported from an Ontario beekeeper to pollinate wild blueberries in the Acadian Peninsula. However, the department said Friday, two beetles have
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
Lana Popham. (B.C. NDP via Flickr, license at Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Crops

B.C. NDP’s ag critic named ag minister

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The agriculture critic for British Columbia’s opposition New Democrats will be the minister of agriculture as the party takes the governing reins. Lana Popham, the MLA for the Vancouver Island riding of Saanich South, was named Tuesday as ag minister in Premier John Horgan’s cabinet. Horgan took over as premier after Christy Clark’s Liberals, who
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.
News

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
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
Aquanty tour attendees make a stop at one of several water control structures in the Assiniboine-Birdstail Watershed June 21. The watershed was the focus of some of the first scenarios run through the MFGA Aquanty hydrological model.
Livestock

MFGA Aquanty project begins to bear fruit

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The full Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association Aquanty project won’t be launched until next spring, 
but test scenarios are beginning to flow through the hydrological model

Data is beginning to flow from the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association (MFGA) Aquanty project, although results are preliminary. The hydrological model, to be launched in March 2018, will mimic the interaction between water and land in the Assiniboine River Basin. “As we learn more about the MFGA Aquanty model, it becomes more and more

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