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Students at Assiniboine Community College’s horticulture production and sustainable food systems program harvested sweet potatoes in October.

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Sweet potatoes may enter Manitoba rotations

High in vitamins and nutrients, the humble sweet potato could become a Manitoba staple

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Halloween may be over, but Sajjad Rao is still working on something sweet and orange for Manitoba producers. The Assiniboine Community College faculty member and Brandon University adjunct professor has been researching the viability of Prairie-grown sweet potatoes at the college’s three-acre research plot. Working with students in the school’s horticulture production and sustainable food
white potatoes
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Spud producers pull off second record crop

Prices are low and right now there’s no market for the surplus production

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Manitoba potato growers harvested, on average, a record 348 hundredweight (cwt) an acre this fall, up eight per cent from the previous record of 322 cwt set last year. However, it’s not all good news, Keystone Potato Growers Association manager Dan Sawat­zky told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council Nov. 3. “We are struggling to
(AlbertaPotatoes.ca)
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Thailand to accept Alberta seed potatoes

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Alberta is now the third Canadian province from which seed potato growers are eligible to export to Thailand. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Monday announced a new export agreement by which Thailand will accept imports of seed potatoes produced in Alberta. “Alberta has a very innovative and progressive seed potato industry and is looking
Crop Report, Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 24

Final Report of 2016: Conditions as of October 17, 2016

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Provincially, harvest in Manitoba is estimated at 92 per cent complete. Harvest of cereal crops and field peas is 99 per cent complete, canola and edible beans 95 per cent complete, soybeans 88 per cent complete, flax 50 per cent complete, and sunflowers and grain corn harvest at 20 to 25 per cent complete. Wet
(Save-A-Lot.com)
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Canada’s Onex to buy U.S. grocery chain Save-A-Lot

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Reuters — Food retailer and wholesaler Supervalu Inc. said it will sell its Save-A-Lot business to Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp. for US$1.37 billion rather than spinning off the discount grocery chain as previously planned, the companies said on Monday. Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Supervalu had been looking to separate the more profitable division, which
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KAP asks House of Commons ag committee to reconsider bypassing Manitoba

The committee is travelling to get input on Growing Forward 3, 
but Manitoba, which was on the list of stops, was dropped

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The Keystone Agricultural Producers thinks the Commons agriculture committee shouldn’t bypass Manitoba. KAP is unhappy the committee won’t be stopping here when it leaves Ottawa this fall to study Growing Forward 3. “We wrote a letter to the chair Pat Finnigan requesting that they reconsider coming to Manitoba and we will see where that goes,”
(Mahindra.com)
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Ottawa to back new tractor plant in Quebec

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A federal fund to help communities diversify from the asbestos business will help finance a major tractor manufacturer’s first facilities in Canada. Navdeep Bains, the minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED), on Tuesday announced a “repayable contribution” of $350,000 for Mahindra Canada-Est to put up a 22,000-square foot industrial building at Adstock,

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