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‘Pea soup’ for cows
It smells like boiling carrots and kefir (fermented milk), says dairy farmer Saskia Reutter. It looks a heck of a lot like canned pea soup. This doesn’t bother her cows one bit. “They like it,” she said. ‘Pea cream’ is a soupy mix of yellow pea pulp and concentrated solubles left over from processing at
April 5, 2022Spend a day at a hawk watch in the Pembina Valley
With the arrival of warmer weather, it’s time for the annual spring ‘Hawk Watch’ in the Pembina Valley southwest of Morden. This region, also known as ‘Raptor Highway,’ is where birdwatchers gather each spring to watch hawks, eagles and vultures as they soar above the valley on their migration north. Avid birders count and record
March 21, 2022VIDEO: One Year One Outfit Challenge connects people to land, textiles, each other
A lamb is born prematurely on a Manitoba sheep farm. It weighs only a pound. To survive, the lamb will need round-the-clock care — more care than the farmer has bandwidth to give, so a woman named Nicole takes the tiny critter home. She and her son put a diaper on the lamb and take
March 14, 2022Git along little dogie: Wayward steer makes the TV news
This rodeo event never made it into the big-time scene. The action never attracted much of a crowd. The participants never scored a windfall of prize money. However, it did make the Brandon TV news that evening long ago. When we four farm boys got home on the school bus that day in November 1976,
March 9, 2022Portage la Prairie 4-H leader recognized for 42 years’ service
The adage is the average person is more afraid of public speaking than death. Sandra Duchak was no exception when she started volunteering with the Gainsborough 4-H club 42 years ago. Before long all four of her kids were in the club, and all of them had communications projects to do. She had to up
March 9, 2022HALFWAY THERE: Manitoba at midpoint of protein strategy goals
The province is over halfway to meeting the investment and employment goals within its Protein Advantage Strategy, said Ag Minister Derek Johnson. “This is outstanding,” said Johnson as he opened the virtual Manitoba Protein Summit on February 22. Manitoba attracted around $73 million in new investment in 2021 for a total of $753 million in new protein
March 9, 2022