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Alberta cattle producers vote to keep refundable checkoff

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 3, 2018

Preliminary results in Alberta beef producers’ service charge plebiscite put a slim majority in favour of keeping their checkoff refundable. Out of 1,874 votes cast, 962 votes, or 51.3 per cent, fell in favour of a refundable service charge model, with 908 for a non-refundable model and four ballots spoiled, according to the preliminary figures

Onions come in all sizes, shapes and colours and with different flavour profiles.  They’re all tasty and are underrated for their nutritional value.

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Enjoy an onion

They’re tasty with flavours that run from spicy to sweet and surprisingly nutritious

By Getty Stewart November 30, 2018

Raw, sautéed, grilled, caramelized, fried or boiled, onions can be used in many different ways in an endless variety of dishes. In fact, onions are the most commonly used vegetable across the globe. We enjoy them for the crisp, spicy bite they provide when raw and the sweet, savoury depth they add when cooked. And

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Deere mega-dealership buys into Red Deer market

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff November 23, 2018

A central Alberta John Deere dealership which billed itself as “one of the few independently owned” dealers in the region is set to join Cervus Equipment. Calgary-based, publicly-traded Cervus announced Friday it will buy Red Deer-based Deermart Equipment Sales for an undisclosed sum. Deermart, owned by John Donald, Jack Donald and Abe Derksen since 1982,

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Unprecedented: Thousands of potato acres unharvested

But despite the adverse weather 2018 was still a decent year for many other Manitoba crops, says KAP president Bill Campbell

By Allan Dawson November 22, 2018

A bumper Manitoba processing potato crop was stolen from farmers by bad harvest weather. “We ended up with about 5,200 acres left in the ground,” Dan Sawatzky, manager of the Keystone Potato Growers Association told the Keystone Agricultural Producers advisory council meeting here Nov. 12. “That’s unprecedented in the history of potatoes I guess in

Walmart’s LatAm delivery app Cornershop eyes Canada

By GFM Network News November 15, 2018

Mexico City | Reuters — Cornershop, a Latin American grocery delivery app being acquired by Walmart, plans to expand into Canada early next year as a test market for the U.S., an executive for the three-year-old mobile app said. Walmart is buying Cornershop, which offers deliveries in Mexico and Chile, for US$225 million. The deal,

Ross Wetmore. (Video screengrab from NBPCCaucus via YouTube)

New Brunswick ag, fisheries files remarried

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff November 12, 2018

New Brunswick’s incoming minority Progressive Conservative government will again have one minister handling the province’s agriculture and aquaculture files. Premier Blaine Higgs on Friday announced Gagetown-Petitcodiac MLA Ross Wetmore as his minister of agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries. Wetmore, 65, replaces Andrew Harvey and Benoit Bourque, who had handled the agriculture and fisheries portfolios respectively on

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Can an apple a day really keep the doctor away?

Nobody knows for sure, but there’s no doubt that apples are truly good for our health

By Julie Garden-Robinson November 9, 2018

Last year, I was very disappointed because our apple tree had no apples. Our tree had never been completely fruitless. I kept staring up at the tree, walking around it and looking for even one apple. I couldn’t find an apple on the tree, even at the very top. At first, I thought the squirrels

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Comment: Our garden’s last stand

There was no food waste on the rural farm of my youth

By Alan Guebert November 7, 2018

In the unseasonable heat of mid-September, the yard’s many black walnut trees began shedding their heavy fruit. Now, a month on, the stately trees are bare of nuts and most of their leaves weeks earlier than any year I can remember. Does that suggest an early winter? A long one? Time will tell. All I

Field day attendees get a look at the pivot-mounted radiometers, one of AAFC’s efforts to nail down variable-rate irrigation and mapping at Carberry’s CMCDC this year.

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Potato researchers delve into variable-rate irrigation

Potato producers are hearing more about variable-rate technology, but researchers at Carberry are trying to dig up some concrete numbers on the technology

By Alexis Stockford November 5, 2018

If there’s a perfect recipe for success when it comes to variable-rate irrigation in potatoes, the researchers at the Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre (CMCDC) are still trying to find it. The idea of variable-rate irrigation is hardly new. As early as 2012, news of field trials was coming out of Alberta, although one of the

A new research project from Europe could address the question of how to feed humans in space.

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Space… the final farming frontier

Treatment with one plant hormone appears to make space farming possible

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 31, 2018

With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists from the University of Zurich have shown. The hormone supports the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, thus encouraging plants’ growth — even under the challenging conditions

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U.S. grains: Soybeans turn higher as traders weigh China demand; wheat climbs

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola needs to back away from highs

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures jump back up, hogs fall

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