The 2006 Chevrolet Silverado looks like an ordinary pickup truck but appearances can be deceiving. Lorne Grieger lifts the hood to reveal a gizmo which makes a big difference. It’s a special fuel injector which lets the truck run on biodiesel fuel and ethanol at the same time. Biodiesel and hydrated ethanol (95 per cent
Dual-fuel truck on display at Ag Days
Small-scale manufacturers warned
If you’re a Canadian manufacturer and you import parts to use in assembling your equipment, don’t be surprised if U. S. customs agents come knocking at your door. They’re checking to see if you’re NAFTA compliant. NAFTA rules require a certain percentage of components in your manufactured product to be North American in origin. If
Report urges more vets for rural Manitoba
“People say they’re 100 per cent behind the system we have. Just make it work.” – Neil Hathaway, Task Force Member A provincial task force recommends continuing Manitoba’s existing rural veterinary service districts but urges greater efforts to attract more qualified staff to them. That could include making it easier for immigrant veterinarians to practise
Red meat sectors get new government export initiative
“We need to negotiate in four or five continents, not just one market at a time.” – Travis Toews, CCA Ottawa is giving Canada’s hog and cattle producers a belated Christmas present by boosting its efforts to expand foreign markets. The government is creating a separate body with a mandate to improve foreign market access
Canada avoids funny honey from China
“We don’t want the honey name to be tarnished.” – GUY CHARTIER, BEE MAID HONEY An international wave of fraudulently disguising, repackaging and reselling honey imported from China appears to be bypassing Canada. Canada’s federal honey regulations and monitoring programs are keeping illegal, adulterated and contaminated honey out of the country, according to the Canadian
Soybean crop surprisingly good in 2008
It was a year in which almost everything that could go wrong did for Manitoba soybean producers. But in the end, things turned out surprisingly well. “We were very happy with the yields,” said Bruce Brolley, a Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives pulse crop specialist. You wouldn’t have known it from producers attending St.
Alfalfa seed crop a disaster in 2008
“There was no good crop anywhere.” – Les Jacobson, MFSA For Manitoba alfalfa seed producers, 2008 was the year they’d just as soon forget. Cool, wet weather throughout most of the growing season produced an alfalfa seed harvest less than half of normal. “There was no good crop anywhere,” said Les Jacobson, Manitoba Forage Seed
Sunflowers average in 2008
Manitoba farmers harvested a generally average sunflower crop in 2008, despite ongoing disease and insect problems. Producers reaped an average 1,480 pounds per acre of confectionery and oil-type sunflowers from 182,000 planted acres, according to provincial crop insurance figures. That compared favourably with the long-term four-year average yield of 1,460 pounds per acre from an
U. S.. cattle groups begin waking up to CooL
A short window of opportunity exists for changing the country-of-origin meat labelling rule before a new U. S. administration dashes Canadian cattle producers’ hopes. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association hopes the outgoing Republican administration will make COOL more trade friendly before the incoming Democrats take office January 20. Otherwise, COOL may stay the way it is
Lobby intensifies for cattle tax deferral
“I’d just as soon see this happen sooner rather than later.” – James Bezan, MP James Bezan says he is having an uphill battle persuading the federal Finance Department that losing hay to a flood is the same as losing it to a drought. “It’s a matter of convincing people within the department that the
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