Manitobans with a great new food or beverage idea are invited to enter the “Great Manitoba Food Fight” scheduled in April as part of the 2011 Capturing Opportunities event. Competitors pitch their product ideas and provide a product sample to a panel of judges. First-, second-and third-place finalists receive product development awards valued at $15,000,
Ideas Sought For The “Great Manitoba Food Fight”
Food Fight Challengers Sought
The fifth annual Great Manitoba Food Fight is open for challengers, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers announced Nov. 24. Manitobans with a great new food or beverage idea are invited to enter the Great Manitoba Food Fight scheduled in April as part of the 2011 Capturing Opportunities event. “In the past four
Controlled Burning Season Extended
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) advises, as a result of the unusually late fall season, the province has extended the requirement for permits to burn crop residue to Dec. 3. Under the permit program, authorization is required for daytime burning of crop residue. Authorizations are issued for certain hours and in certain areas
Province Begins Program To Honour 125-Year-Old Farms
The Manitoba government has launched a new Heritage Farms designation in celebration of farm families who have maintained continuous production for 125 or more years. The first family to receive a sign from Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers was Betty and Walter Heaman who farm northwest of Virden. “Families like the Heamans
Crop Report – for Oct. 14, 2010
SOUTHWEST REGION Cereal crops are 80 to 85 per cent complete; yields are average and quality is average to below average due to several rain showers. Canola harvest is 80 per cent complete with yields average to below average with reports that later-seeded canola has been impacted by frost. Flax harvest is 70 per cent
Crop Report – for Oct. 7, 2010
SOUTHWEST REGION Little to no precipitation over the past week allowed good harvest progress. Cereal harvest ranges from 65 per cent to 80 per cent complete and canola harvest from 55 per cent to 60 per cent complete. Most crops are dry and yields are reported to be average with below-average quality. Very little flax
Crop Report – for Sep. 30, 2010
SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall limited harvest progress over the past week but many producers were able to resume harvest operations over the weekend. Cereal harvest ranges from 35 to 60 per cent complete with more progress seen south of Highway #1. Yields are reported to be average with quality being reduced because of the wet conditions.
Crop Report – for Sep. 23, 2010
SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall throughout the southwest region limited harvest to a few days last week. Frost was recorded with temperatures dropping as low as -3 C. Cereal crop harvest ranges between 40 to 65 per cent complete. Many acres have been taken off tough with producers drying grain. Quality of all cereal crops remaining in
Crop Report – for Sep. 16, 2010
SOUTHWEST Rainfall over the past week limited harvest to only a couple of days. In most cases producers were harvesting damp to wet grain. Harvests of cereal crops vary from 70 per cent complete in the Killarney area and 40 to 50 per cent north of Souris, to less than 10 per cent harvested north
Crop Report – for Sep. 2, 2010
SOUTHWEST Rainfall slowed harvest but producers still got in a few days of harvesting, with the most progress seen south of Highway 1. Winter wheat and fall rye harvests are complete with yields reported average to above-average, with average quality. Spring wheat harvest ranges from very little done north of Hwy. 1 to 40 per
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