COVID-19 isn’t Olive Foote’s first brush with a national crisis. She lived through the Great Depression. “It wasn’t my responsibility when I was eight or nine years old, but I was old enough to join my parents in their concern,” wrote Foote, who lives at Heritage Manor in Elm Creek. “We always made do with

[UPDATED: Nov. 3, 2020] Canada’s burgeoning value chain for sustainable beef was not spared the wrecking ball that was COVID-19 earlier this year, but it hopes to find greener pastures in which to land. Why it matters: Efforts to build a separate supply chain for sustainable beef ran into challenges from market disruptions to logistical

Commercial Charolais producer Darcy Watson has played with other genetics over the years, but he says those experiments have always led him back to Charolais. The Watson family has a long history with Charolais cattle. It was the breed his father ran, Watson recalled, and the one that he’s has pursued as he has grown

For aging residents of rural Manitoba, there are few challenges that loom larger than transportation. Consider the different realities of urban and rural seniors. For an urban senior, losing the ability to drive for themselves is still a cruel blow of aging, but it isn’t debilitating. Options ranging from buses, traditional taxis and a plethora

The food aid was two months late. Niger was in the grip of drought and for many complicated reasons, the food aid the Canadian Foodgrains Bank had ordered had not reached the village Jim Cornelius was visiting that morning. He sat under a tree with a woman and her child. As she told him they

Laura and Ryan Plett know all about building something from nothing. Their farm, tucked into the bush near Stead, on the southeastern tip of Lake Winnipeg, is largely forested. Pasture expansions mean pushing farther into the bush. Grazing is marginal. The Pletts’ herds, now hundreds of head strong and combining cattle and sheep, was grown