Country Crossroads & Farming Articles

Try creating your own pizza with a variety of toppings and ingredients from each of the food groups.

Pizza party

Prairie Fare: Don’t feel guilty, well-chosen toppings can make your pizza a healthful menu option

By Julie Garden-Robinson November 3, 2017

Do you recall your first experience with pizza? The first time I tried pizza, at about age five, I was not sold on it. In fact, I couldn’t imagine why anyone wanted to eat it on a regular basis. I was enticed by TV ads that said pizza made from the kit being advertised was

Janet Kroeker applies a wool batt to cotton encasement fabric as she works on product line for the family’s Rosa-area home-based business, Shepherd’s Dream.

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Making their bed

A rural Manitoba family operates a leading company in the Canadian natural bedding industry from their home near the tiny village of Roseau River

By Lorraine Stevenson November 1, 2017

Ssshhhh! People are sleeping, and very soundly, thanks to their wool mattresses and comforters. The products are handcrafted by a Roseau River-area family that’s been quietly in the bed-making business — more precisely the making of pure wool beds — since 2002. Janet and Tim Kroeker were inspired to start Shepherd’s Dream by Janet’s sister’s

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Are small towns doing enough to make immigrants feel welcome?

Study shows programs and services can’t be ‘one size fits all’

By University Of British Columbia Release November 1, 2017

UBC researchers have determined that efforts to make immigrants feel welcome in small, rural towns often miss the mark — despite the good intentions. Assistant Prof. Susana Caxaj, along with Navjot Gill, recently published research examining the well-being of rural immigrants and whether they feel connected to their communities. Caxaj says a sense of belonging,

Our History

Long guns and long johns?

Our History: October 1953

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 1, 2017

Readers of a certain age will remember that the models for men’s long underwear in Eaton’s and Sears catalogue ads were often holding a shotgun or rifle, as was one of the models for Mary Maxim sweater knitting kits in this ad in our Oct. 22, 1953 issue. If you wanted a kit, you wrote

A 30,000-bushel wooden elevator at Fairfax in the Municipality of Grassland was built by Paterson Grain in 1920. Balloon annexes were built on two sides of it in the 1950s then they were replaced by a large crib annex and two steel tanks. This photo from October 1999 was taken shortly after the facility was closed. It was demolished the following year along with the former Manitoba Pool elevator (acquired by Paterson in 1981) in the background.

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PHOTOS: This Old Elevator: October 2017

The Manitoba Historical Society wants to gather information about all the grain elevators in Manitoba

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 31, 2017

The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator it is supplying these images of a grain elevator each week in hopes readers will be able to tell the society more about it, or any other elevator they know of.

White pumpkins that have marks and blemishes often make the best candidates for carving Halloween faces, as these faults can be incorporated into the design.

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Try out some white pumpkins this Halloween

These varieties range from pure white to cream colour with no trace of orange on them

By Albert Parsons October 30, 2017

Moonshine,” “Lumina,” “Baby Boo,” “New Moon” — these are all variety names of white pumpkins. It used to be that the spookiness of the Halloween season was depicted using only the colours orange and black. Well, move over orange and black, because white is fast gaining ground as the fearsome colour of choice. Horticulturalists have

A thatch layer builds from the declining clover as the season progresses.  The thatch decomposes and nitrogen becomes available for corn nutrition.

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Night of the living mulch

It’s more fairy tale than horror story, according to researchers  studying the technique

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 30, 2017

Living mulch may be a way to benefit both soil and the bottom line. The technique uses a perennial crop sown between the rows of an annual crop and University of Georgia researchers are studying how to make this old technique work even better. They’re studying the use of white clover between the rows of

We’ll skip the cake and pay attention to healthy options on the 20th birthday of this food column.

Recipe Swap

It’s been 20 years of food tips

Prairie Fare: In that time this column has covered topics from apples to zucchini and everything in between

By Julie Garden-Robinson October 27, 2017

What would you think about writing a weekly column?” a couple of editors from the NDSU Extension Service asked me. “What if no papers run it?” I responded. “Oh, they will,” they replied in unison. “Writing something new every week can get to be a grind, though,” one of them added. “And what if the

Our History

CN improves rail car turnaround times

Our History: October 1987

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 25, 2017

In this ad in our Oct. 29, 1987 issue, CN showed how it had improved its rail car turnaround times from 17.8 days in 1986-87 to as low as 16.0 days that month. The overall average car cycle time for all railways is 16.6 days so far this crop year. In contrast to today’s mantra

Don Dewar with his Comanche aircraft in Dauphin.

Country Crossroads, Other

Less flying farmers, more need for aerial applicators

As Flying Farmers clubs see falling numbers even as agriculture demands more pilots, women are taking up the challenge

By Shannon VanRaes October 24, 2017

Don Dewar jokingly calls it the $100 hamburger. Across Manitoba and rural Canada, flying clubs host fly-in breakfasts, lunches and other events to bring people to their airports and communities. “It’s a social thing, they get together with other pilots and it gives them an excuse to use their airplane, because everyone loves to fly,

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U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on expectations of tight supplies

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall, but achieve first annual gain in three years

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026

Country Crossroads

Pizza party

Making their bed

Long guns and long johns?

PHOTOS: This Old Elevator: October 2017

Try out some white pumpkins this Halloween

Night of the living mulch

It’s been 20 years of food tips

CN improves rail car turnaround times

Less flying farmers, more need for aerial applicators

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