Judy Swain will be remembered for her energy, joy, practicality and care for her land, animals and friends, say fellow farmers and board members from Direct Farm Manitoba. “There’s not very many remarkable people like that left in the world,” said Danielle Mondor, a board member with the organization, which represents small-scale farmers and farmers’

Manitoba’s elk producers aren’t surprised that the province has seen its first case of chronic wasting disease (CWD). With an increasing population of mule deer spreading east from Saskatchewan, they say it was bound to happen. The province announced Manitoba’s first CWD case Nov. 1, found in a visibly sick male mule deer euthanized near

A Souris-area rancher is turning a chunk of his land back into a marsh after fifty-some years, in a record-breaking project for Ducks Unlimited. “It should be holding water,” said Sean Murphy of the land — currently bone dry and shorn for hay after a summer of drought. Murphy runs cattle on about 2,500 acres

Glacier FarmMedia – It all started with a few worms and an idea, and has now grown to four facilities and 70 million red wigglers. And that’s what makes Canada’s largest worm farm different — it scaled way, way up. “One of the biggest challenges with worm farms is scalability,” said Michael Launer, CEO of

Reuters – The biggest global agriculture companies are competing on a new front: enticing farmers to join programs that keep atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide in the soil. Fertilizer producers Nutrien and Yara, agribusiness giant Cargill, and seed and chemical companies Corteva and Bayer are paying growers for every acre of land dedicated to trapping carbon underground,

“Life isn’t always candy, cowboy boots, and horses, but should be,” is an old saying that definitely fit the bill at the Kids’ Horsin’ Around Day in early September in Russell. Fun was the theme of the day, attracting youngsters and families who had one thing in common, enjoying the warmth and companionship of a