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Carryover and low quotas lead to Chinchillas?
Our History

Carryover and low quotas lead to Chinchillas?

Our History: November, 1969

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A combination of low prices and low quotas resulting from a huge Canadian and world wheat carryover in 1969 meant tough times for farmers, and this ad in our Nov. 13 issue invited them to diversify by getting into the Chinchilla ranching business. However, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool president E.K. Turner told his annual meeting that
The bambara nut, seen here after being dug, is one type of legume that could benefit from its wild relatives.
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Researchers break the wild-domestic barrier in legumes

They’re hoping to tap wild relatives for important traits 
such as disease and pest resistance

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Domesticating plants to grow as crops can turn out to be a double-edged scythe. On one hand, selecting specific desirable traits, such as high yields, can increase crop productivity. But other important traits, such as resistance to pests, can be lost. To mitigate this, researchers often turn to the wild relatives of crops. These wild
Cookies are delicious, but unbaked dough is unsafe for a number of reasons.
Recipe Swap

Tasting cookie dough is hazardous for new reasons

Flour and some other grain-based foods have also been linked to foodborne illness outbreaks

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Do you ever taste cookie dough? Licking the mixing spoon or pinching a chunk of batter from the bowl can be tempting. If you said “yes, I taste raw cookie dough,” give yourself a pat on the back for your honesty. Now I need to tell you to avoid the temptation of tasting raw doughs
Designated rodeos allow younger students to participate instead of just watching.
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Manitoba Little Buckaroo rodeos

Kindergarten to Grade 5 division now a part of high 
school association

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Striving to keep interest of the sport of rodeo at the forefront and ensure its future, the Manitoba High School Rodeo Association continues to offer events geared to the younger ages. Designated rodeos allow students in kindergarten to Grade 5 to participate instead of just watching from the rail. The Manitoba Little Buck­aroo (MLB) rodeos
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You can’t beat a good soup

The Jacksons from the November 16, 2017 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator

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Andrew Jackson looked up from the newspaper he was reading at the kitchen table. “Did you hear that?” he said. “Hear what?” Andrew’s wife Rose did not look up from the pot she was stirring at the stove. “That noise,” said Andrew. “It was like a thump. Or a crunch. You didn’t hear it?” “No
How to go broke farming
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How to go broke farming

Our History: November 1927

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The Delco-Light generator advertised in the November 1927 issue of The Scoop Shovel would provide “brilliant, safe evening light which makes reading a pleasure — enables the children to study better.” The unnamed writer of “The Pool Woman” column reflected on media reports that a national church assembly in Spain had met to discuss the
Producer and director of “From Seed to Seed” Katharina Stieffenhofer (r) and cinematographer Bryan Sanders (l) pose with two of the film’s subjects Brandon-area organic farmers Ian and Zach Grossart.
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Documentary shows Manitoba farms adopting ecological practices

The documentary film features Manitoba producers changing farm practices to rejuvenate 
both farms and community

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Winnipeg documentary filmmaker Katharina Stieffenhofer came home from a farmers’ conference two years ago so inspired by what she’d heard and seen she wanted to tell others. She’d listened to talks by Martin Entz, plant scientist at the University of Manitoba, at the 2016 Prairie Organic Think Whole Farm conference. It wasn’t the first time
Leila Dehabadi puts corn at the centre of new, more efficient technology for separating water from ethanol.
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Water out of wine

New University of Saskatchewan chemistry research could 
pave the way for cheaper gas and booze

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A University of Saskatch­ewan PhD chemistry student has devised a new and more energy-efficient way to separate water from ethanol. Leila Dehabadi is using starch-based materials such as corn, and can extract the water without using additional energy to isolate the ethanol, which could reduce the cost of biofuels. “Compared to distillation, this new approach
The ingredients in the potato soup recipe below are good sources of vitamin C and the mineral potassium.
Recipe Swap

Warm yourself with some soup

Soup is high in liquid, which means it usually is lower in calories than other foods

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Mom, now my hands will smell like onions!” my older daughter said as she chopped a particularly fragrant onion we had grown this summer. She has been my long-term vegetable chopper, even when we have gadgets that will do the work for us. We had onions, bell peppers and potatoes to chop as we tried
Amanda Reimer is the founder of Etsy Sellers Manitoba. She is also the owner of Silver Moose Arts a home-based business in Landmark making vintage and silver jewelry.
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Online community supports Manitoba’s burgeoning maker movement

Etsy Sellers of Manitoba is an Etsy team created to support and grow the burgeoning crafter movement in the province

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Pre-Christmas sales are popping up all across rural Manitoba as hundreds of creative Manitobans emerge from their kitchens and studios and basement sewing rooms with armloads of homemade art and craft. Handcrafters, artists and designers of all types of artisanal goods depend on these events for the exposure it provides and the revenues it can

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