Hunting with whiskey jacks
Canada jays, or whiskey jacks, are bold little deer hunting pals that don’t mind getting close, if it means a piece of the offal or deer fat left over from a successful forest hunt in Manitoba. 
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A Manitoba inventor has developed a homegrown solution to five-dollar lettuce. Neil Evenson is the founder of Radical Growing Company, which produces self-contained, do-it-yourself, single-plant hydroponic kits. Evenson is a design engineer by trade but he loves to tinker in his spare time, and every now and again, those tinkerings turn into a viable product
January 25, 2023Rural electric vehicles: brilliant or balderdash?
I’ve come across multiple iterations of this Facebook meme. Several cars sit half-buried as a snowstorm rages around them. The caption reads something like, “Can you imagine an electric vehicle stuck here for hours, the battery dying, the saps inside freezing their patooties off? Pry my gas-powered vehicle from my cold, dead hands!” For everyone
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Awhile back I asked our outdoorsy family friend, Terri, if she wanted to come ice fishing. She deferred, saying, “I like fishing. It’s the ‘ice’ part that I don’t like.” Like Terri, I think there is some mild insanity on display in the growing interest in the ‘hardwater’ fishing season, which really took off during
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Who among us, as a child, wasn’t forced to eat food they didn’t like? One of my aunts, young and newly married into the family, tried to force five-year-old me to eat my breakfast cereal – with milk. Big mistake! Fits were thrown. When my parents got home, they were told in no uncertain terms
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For Winnipeg-based tractor manufacturer Versatile, developing and maintaining business partnerships is what allows it to keep pace with competitors. The latest example is a partnership between Versatile, its engine supplier, Cummins, and two tech companies, Elevāt and STW Technic. The arrangement has given the tractor manufacturer a sophisticated, real-time diagnostics and support system for its
January 11, 2023VIDEO: The dawn of a new generation: celebrating Canada’s farming future
If you’re planning or in the process of transitioning your farm to the next generation, you aren’t alone. Farm Management Canada estimates that 75 per cent of farms across Canada will change hands over the next decade. Today is Farm Transition Appreciation Day, a day to acknowledge the efforts underway across the country to get
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