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Northwest Manitoba’s Duck and Porcupine Mountains are a top-tier fishing destination, thanks partly to four decades of work by Swan Valley Sports Fish Enhancement Inc. 
Forget any social media fear mongering about oats — Oats are a healthy, nutritious, Prairie-grown option to add more whole grains to your diet. 
The snowy owl is the iconic species, but there are plenty of other superb owls to be seen in winter throughout Manitoba, Donna Gamache writes.
Leftovers and extra food abound in the first weeks of January. Give your kitchen a winter reset, clean out the fridge and save on your grocery bill
Manitoba, 1946 — Post-war rations for both people and cows: The latest look back at over a century of the Manitoba Co-operator
From new tractor announcements to the increasing pace of robot technology in agriculture, Glacier FarmMedia’s John Greig and Greg Berg share some of their impressions from Agritechnica 2025 in Hanover, Germany.
Scott Duguid, who raises cattle near Arnes, Manitoba, wanted his cattle to access water easier to keep them from getting bad cases of foot rot. The solution? An above-ground, solar-powered portable water trough that feeds from the dugout and keeps his cattle out of the mud.
Marla Riekman, soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, talks about reducing the effects of soil erosion from tillage. (Recorded at Crop Diagnostic School 2025 in Carman, Man.)
Brennin Jack, branch manager of Heartland Livestock Services at Virden, Manitoba, heads to the 2026 World Livestock Auctioneering Championship.
Interlake farmer Mike Duguid has become the latest to join the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association’s Wall of Fame. The mixed farmer and long-time board member was named to the honour Nov. 12, during the MFGA’s annual regenerative agriculture conference in Brandon, an event that, as 2025 conference committee chair, he helped bring about. WHY
Philippe Sabourin’s memoir shares author’s formative farm years in the Red River Valley, as well as lessons rooted in world travel and the food systems found there.
Manitoba, 1946 — Post-war rations for both people and cows: The latest look back at over a century of the Manitoba Co-operator
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From new tractor announcements to the increasing pace of robot technology in agriculture, Glacier FarmMedia’s John Greig and Greg Berg share some of their impressions from Agritechnica 2025 in Hanover, Germany.
Watch the video
Scott Duguid, who raises cattle near Arnes, Manitoba, wanted his cattle to access water easier to keep them from getting bad cases of foot rot. The solution? An above-ground, solar-powered portable water trough that feeds from the dugout and keeps his cattle out of the mud.
Watch the video
Marla Riekman, soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, talks about reducing the effects of soil erosion from tillage. (Recorded at Crop Diagnostic School 2025 in Carman, Man.)
Watch the video
Canada’s best-known climatologist always knows when he’s lost a crowd of producers he’s presenting to. It’s usually right around the time he starts talking about climate change. But he gets it. “Farmers have been beat up a lot — they’ve been accused of causing climate change,” said David Phillips, Environment and Climate Change Canada’s senior
January 10, 2020More years ago than I care to remember, I began my career writing about agriculture production practices in this newspaper. While I did grow up on a grain and oilseed operation, I don’t have much in the way of formal agriculture training. My early years involved a lot of learning on the job, asking what
January 9, 2020Manitoba’s dairy farmers are beginning to find their footing in a new world that, for the first time in decades, includes significant dairy product imports. That was the message a three-producer panel shared with the Manitoba Co-operator, at the recent Dairy Farmers of Manitoba (DFM) annual convention. A year ago those same producers spoke to
January 8, 2020My husband and I moved to the Ste. Rose area from Alberta in May of 2019. We have been caught up in the Crown land modernization fiasco. The fact that there was a Conservative government in the province, along with reasonable land prices, made it an attractive place for us to grow our cattle business.
January 7, 2020Way back in 1976 my very first job with Manitoba Agriculture was a three-month contract, to do a review of the province’s Crown land leasing program. It was a steep learning curve for me at the end of which I concluded that the then existing system was: a) Expensive to administer; b) Undervalued the province’s
January 7, 2020Cold weather has arrived, and most of our birds have migrated south, but the hardy ones are still around. A dozen or so species remain, and a feeding station kept regularly supplied will attract them to your backyard or deck for your viewing enjoyment, if you place the feeders where you can watch them easily.
December 24, 2019
