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Wild oat chemical control options
Our History

Wild oat chemical control options

Our History: March 1974

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Your wild oat chemical control options in 1974 included Avadex, Treflan, Avenge (barley only), Endaven (wheat), Asulox (flax) and Carbyne, a post-emergent product from Gulf. In our March 7 issue, an article by Elmer Stobbe of the University of Manitoba discussed the “billion-dollar problem” of wild oats on the Prairies, and reviewed the chemical options
Canada’s top seed disinfectant
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Canada’s top seed disinfectant

Our History: March 1953

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Your seed treatment options in this ad from our March 12, 1953 issue included mercury-based Ceresan and Benesan, or C-I-L Bunt Cure, which was a non-mercurial treatment for wheat costing three cents an acre. Among the front page news items that week was the death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at age 73, introduction of
Better yields with Manor Buckwheat
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Better yields with Manor Buckwheat

Our History: March 1984

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Buckwheat was still a significant crop in Manitoba in the 1970s and 1980s, exceeding 100,000 acres some years, and SeCan was promoting the Manor variety in our Mar. 1, 1984 issue. However, acreage has declined to the point where it is no longer reported by Statistics Canada. In that issue, we reported that the U.S.
How good is your seed cleaning equipment?
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How good is your seed cleaning equipment?

Our History: February 1963

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Seed growers could write Simon-Day in Winnipeg for information on the cleaner and disc separator advertised in our Feb. 23, 1963 issue. At the Manitoba Swine Breeders Association in Brandon, members heard of a new provincial program to encourage them to set up high-standard herds from which growers could select quality animals. Also meeting in
Learn about fungicides via your VCR
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Learn about fungicides via your VCR

Our History: February 1991

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Fungicides were a new concept for farmers in February 1991. To learn more you could watch a video, but that meant sending for a VHS in the mail, not watching YouTube. In our Feb. 21 issue we reported on a meeting at CSP Foods in Altona (now owned by Bunge), one of three canola-crushing plants
Act now for discounts on electric generators
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Act now for discounts on electric generators

Our History: February 1925

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Pool members who wanted power on their farms in 1925 could get a $100 discount on the Lalley Light and Power unit advertised in the February 1925 issue of The Scoop Shovel. The eighth issue of the publication representing Manitoba co-operatives said that in addition to 9,230 farmers who had committed all their wheat to
Don’t miss out on UGG shares
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Don’t miss out on UGG shares

Our History: January 1993

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In 1993, United Grain Growers was in transition to being a partly publicly traded company, and this ad in our Jan. 21 issue alerted members that they were entitled to common shares if they had hauled grain to UGG in the previous six years. One of the headlines that issue was “More tough times possible,”
Keep your chicks warm with the Silent Sioux brooder
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Keep your chicks warm with the Silent Sioux brooder

Our History: January 1950

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If you wanted to keep your chicks warm in the winter of 1950, you could purchase this Silent Sioux oil-burning brooder advertised in our Jan. 19 issue. We reported that “Complaints were pouring in last week as residents of rural Manitoba felt the first impact of the general 25 per cent reduction in Canadian National

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