“It’s like a vacation. You’re open and curious, out to have fun, and more receptive because you’ve got time to stop and smell the roses.” – DR. PENNY LLOYD In the Hollywood blockbuster “Avatar,” when the blue cat-like people of Pandora want to ride, they simply plug their ponytail-like nerve endings into a complementary organ
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Two Ranchers Fined Over Refusal To TB Test
“If you are not prepared to do this, I suggest that you get out of the cattle business.” – JUDGE JOHN COMBS Two convictions under the Health of Animals Act in a Brandon courtroom April 16 have sent a clear message that refusing to comply with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in testing for bovine
Quam Wows Crowd With Quick Training Tricks
“It’s not easy, and it ain’t all done in a day.” – CAIN QUAM For hockey fans, there’s the Stanley Cup. For the 400 horse fanatics occupying the bleachers at the Keystone Centre’s third annual Horse3 event, there was the eagerly anticipated Naeric 2010 Horse Trainer Showdown. The event, which comes on the final day
Feedlot Charged Fourth Time
Just off the Trans-Canada, about eight miles east of Carberry, there’s a small, black gully. Recently it was dry. According to Donna and Peter Pingert, who together run a cattle feedlot surrounded by windbreak fences underneath a tall blue silo further up the gently sloping hill, the gully runs for about three days every spring
West Side Elk Herd May Be Culled In Final Blitz
On the map of Riding Mountain National Park’s three TB-management zones, lies a black amoeba-shaped blob. Straight south of Grandview, the irregular-shaped area in the Western Control Zone was created by drawing circles with a six-kilometre radius based on the known home ranges of radio-collared elk that have tested postive for bovine TB under the
Levy A Blatant Tax Grab, Says KAP
Keystone Agricultural Producers has come out against the province’s proposed two per cent supply management quota exchange levy. At the recent general council meeting, a number of speakers came forward to denounce the levy as a tax grab which would offer nothing in return to farmers, and a resolution was passed to lobby the provincial
Reporters Take A Peek Inside A Culled Elk
“Once in a while we get some large ones. When you cut it open, you see that the inside is much like the cream filling of a doughnut. It’s just disgusting. It’s offyellowy white, gooey, hideous stuff.” – Ken Kingdon Of the 28 elk killed this spring in Riding Mountain National Park, all have so
Reviving Interest In Farm Poultry
“I think that’s kinda’ cool, actually. But that’s coming from a lady who has probably 500 in her yard.” – KATHY BRUNEAU The bleachers were overflowing at the Manitoba Poultry, Rabbit and Pet Stock Association’s annual auction and bidding was brisk as 250 boxes of chickens, ducks and geese and up to 40 more containing
New Market For Hemp Straw, Fibre
“What I found surprised me. Canada had little hemp-fibre processing capacity.” – ROBERT JIN Plans to build the first hemp fibre-processing plant in North America were announced at a press conference in Gilbert Plains April 6. Work on the $10-million facility, to be built by Plains Industrial Hemp Processing Ltd., will start this summer, according
GM Flax, Alfalfa Focus Of Debate At KAP
“But today, I think you can test for everything except for the existence of God. So, we’re screwed.” – Ed Rempel Resolut ions aimed at cur ing both present and future headaches caused by genetically modified crops were discussed at the latest Keystone Agricultural Producers general council. Two resolutions were approved, one to look at
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