The provincial government has released a consultation document on devising a new output-based pricing system (OBPS) related to carbon emissions. The OBPS system, like a cap-and-trade program, will apply to large-scale industrial facilities with annual emissions of 50,000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, requiring these facilities to meet specific emission targets, or pay
Manitoba’s consultations begin on pricing for carbon emissions
KAP members will be looking at what an offset market means for agriculture
Love Food Hate Waste campaign tackles food waste in Canada
Two of Canada’s largest food retailers plus local and provincial governments and agencies have launched a national campaign to change Canadians’ food behaviour
A new national campaign launching this summer in Canada aims to reduce the vast volume of food waste generated by Canadian households. The Love Food Hate Waste campaign is dedicated to reducing the significant amounts of food thrown out daily in households right across the country, said Malcolm Brodie, chair of the National Zero Waste
Putting class theory into soybean field practice
The University of Manitoba has introduced a new hands-on field course designed to introduce research principles to help second-year diploma students apply learning from their first year of study
Students studying agriculture at University of Manitoba took their studies outside this summer as participants in a first-ever course being offered those in their second year of the agriculture diploma program. The field class is instructed by pulse crops expert and U of M’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences’ agronomist in residence Kristen MacMillan,
Want to come back?
This summer marks the 70th anniversary of when families started sending their kids to Camp Wannakumbac at Clear Lake
Ask anyone who grew up in rural Manitoba to name a place they link with childhood and summer, and chances are it’s Camp Wannakumbac. For 70 years tens of thousands of youths have spent a week of summer camping here, often returning later on to work as a counsellor or director. Adults wanna come back,
International Harvester collectors’ club to visit Austin
Visiting Western Canada IH Collectors Club (Chapter 38) is a brand new attraction for the 64th annual Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede
Is that Grandpa’s tractor? Is that the truck Dad proposed to Mom in? Anyone with a love of the history, products and memorabilia of the International Harvester Company won’t want to miss the upcoming Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede. For the first time, the Western Canada IH Collectors Club (Chapter 38) — a mix of
WI quilt ‘A Story in Patchwork’
About 120 delegates recently visited Winnipeg to attend the Federated Women’s Institute of Canada convention
A brightly coloured quilt dubbed ‘A Story in Patchwork’ on display in Winnipeg this past weekend vividly symbolizes the group that helped piece it together, says its maker. Donna Henderson of Listowel, Ontario was in Manitoba last week to attend the Federated Women’s Institute of Canada’s (FWIC) convention, bringing with her a quilt she constructed
High rates of child death and injury persist: Why farm children are put at risk
Parents interviewed say there’s benefits to including children in tasks on the farm
Much work has been done around child safety on the farm, and the high incidence of injuries and deaths among Canadian farm children is well documented. But there hasn’t been much effort put into understanding why parents allow children into dangerous situations. A new study sheds some light on the reasons, and may help prevent
Yes, we can
New report from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute calls for ‘quality growth’ strategy as Canada eyes roughly doubling export share by 2027
A new report released by a Canadian think-tank urges the agricultural sector to set its sights on ‘quality growth’ as it aims to increase agri-exports over the next decade. The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s report, Barton Forward: Optimizing Growth in the Canadian agri-food sector comes as the sector now eyes boosting agri-food exports to $75
Strawberry fields hit by winterkill
Fruit growers’ association would like to see crop insurance made available to its sector to help stabilize incomes against these kinds of losses
Some strawberry growers will have fewer berries on offer this season, due to an unusually cold winter killing off many of their plants. These growers are reporting losses of anywhere from 20 per cent to about half their crop gone. Their fields couldn’t withstand the intense periods of cold we experienced this past winter, said
Fruit-picking season has arrived
U-pick fruit farms are seeing a resurgence in customers as families and friends make a day trip of heading out to pick strawberries and other locally grown fruits
Berry-picking season is just days away and for some winter-weary Manitobans it can’t come soon enough. Some growers had eager customers show up in mid-May. “It was like, ‘we’re here and where’s the strawberries?’” said Darren Cormier who with his wife Angie Cormier operates a 10-acre strawberry field at La Salle. Customers are genuinely excitedCyber-Savvy Farmer
