A decade ago spotting a wolf was rare in this part of Manitoba’s Interlake. But the one Robert Green shot last fall wasn’t skulking through the bush around their Fisher Branch-area cow-calf operation. The animal had come right into their farmyard. It’s not the only close encounter the Greens have had with wolves lately either.
Beef producers seeing more wolf kills
Wolf predation is a growing concern among producers, says association president
Manitoba Beef Producers releases carbon pricing policy
The beef industry is part of the solution and must not have punitive profit-killing measures enacted, says MBP
Manitoba Beef Producers is proposing a carbon pricing policy centred around recognizing its sector as part of the solution. Pastures and grassland play a key role in carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas reduction, the organization said. “We believe we have a valuable role to play in helping Manitoba achieve its goal of reducing GHGs,” said
Career journalist carves out new niche
Glen Kirby operates the Southwest Post, a digital-only news site serving southwestern Manitoba
Glen Kirby has been writing the news his whole life, but to say the guy has ink in his blood isn’t quite accurate anymore. Binary codes, maybe. The career journalist launched the Southwest Post last fall, a digital-only news site carrying daily news stories he writes and photos taken as he covers the region around
Well-told stories attract customers, conference speaker says
Even small businesses with no budget to market can use this approach to build brand recognition
Small-scale direct-marketing businesses that don’t have budgets to do much marketing can build brand recognition by openly telling their business’s story, said the keynote speaker attending the Direct Farm Marketing conference here last week. “The best thing you can do is tell stories about yourselves,” Mark Evans, of Mark Evans Consulting, a Toronto-based company specialized
Zhoda-area couple reports 150 cattle missing
Manitoba Beef Producers spokesman says the loss is unprecedented
Owners of a Zhoda-area cattle operation are warning other cattle producers to be on the lookout, after discovering as many as 150 head disappeared from their ranch. Juergen Schubert, owner of New Country Ranch in Zhoda, Man., was widely quoted in media reports last week saying thieves stole the cows from their herd of 800
Canola worth $26.7 billion, economic impact study shows
Total economic impact rising dramatically, independent analysis shows
Canola’s value to the Canadian economy has tripled in the past decade, now coming in at $26.7 billion a year, according to a newly released study. That’s an increase of nearly $6 billion compared to the three-year period of 2009-11, with a large part of the value stemming from the 250,000 jobs and the $11.2
Last edition of 117-year-old rural newspaper hits newsstands
The Exponent in Grandview published its last edition February 28. It first rolled off the presses March 7, 1901
Residents of Grandview have read the last edition of their weekly local newspaper, publishing weekly for well over a century. The Chaloners, owners of the Exponent announced on the front page of the February 28 edition that this would be its last after 117 years in business. It marks the end of an era in
A ‘new-old’ food business celebrates cross-Canada ties
Prairie Fare: Avion Harvest’s first incarnation marketed yellow peas to Quebec cooks
Canadians are planning many celebrations for our 150th year, and guaranteed these events will revolve around lots and lots of food. Expect to consume, for example, copious amounts of ultra-Canuck and super-delicious pea soup. Pea soup’s been around awhile. It would have fuelled French explorer Samuel de Champlain and his crew as they rolled in
Manitoba Beef Producers working to protect species at risk
Producers teaming up with conservation group for protection of threatened habitat
Beef producers will lead a new program in Manitoba aimed at improving the habitat — and thereby chances of survival — for grassland birds whose populations are in perilous decline. Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) will receive $750,000 from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Species at Risk Partnerships on Agricultural Lands (SARPAL) over three years to
Iconic peace tower coming down at International Peace Gardens
Work to dismantle the tower, put up in 1982, began last week by a crew experienced in concrete grain elevator demolition
It was expected to last a century but after just 35 years the 120-foot iconic tower at the International Peace Gardens is coming down. A North Dakota-based firm with experience deconstructing concrete grain terminals arrived on site Feb. 22. The contractor was expected to be done the task in about two weeks using a crane
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