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Duguid named to MFGA Wall of Fame

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 arrow

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Comment: Walking in the shadow of hope

The first obvious sign of the season-long flood is a perfectly level, three-foot-high ring of dried mud on the machine shed’s siding. Nature put it there and, in time, will likely wash it away. Across the road, 100 feet behind a noticeably tilting mailbox, stands the empty, sagging farmhouse of my youth. It sports no

Animal Health Canada: A much-needed new deadbolt for the front door

The core problems facing the governance of animal health policy in Canada… are the fragmentation of authority and responsibilities, the large number of actors inside government and out, and the lack of a streamlined and transparent mechanism for achieving overall coherence in a complex policy area. In short, the system needs to be rationalized. –

Comment: On Crown Lands, we get what we ask for

The Oct. 10 front page of the Manitoba Co-operator read “Feeling Betrayed: Crown land tenants voice opposition” and the article describes a series of events that began at the Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting held in Brandon February 2017. A resolution was presented to the convention demanding MBP lobby the provincial government to replace

4-H family rolls out mobile ag-education display

When Taylor and Harleigh Carlson were little, they’d sit in the barn and read books to their cows. That was their job. The cattle got used to having kids around, which made them easier to halter-break and train for cattle shows. Taylor and Harleigh were practically born into 4-H and cattle showing. Their dad Trevor

Nanotechnology breathing new life into existing crop protection products

A University of Toronto graduate school project is now extending the life of widely used crop protection products. Vive Crop Protection’s trademarked Allosperse Delivery System uses nanotechnology to create new application methods for existing biological and conventional crop protection products. With few fully new chemicals coming to market, making existing products work better is a

Book chronicles the rise and fall of farmer-owned grain companies

What began in 2004 as a history of United Grain Growers (UGG) founded in 1906, morphed into a chronicling of the birth and death of the West’s farmer-owned, co-operative grain companies and an investigation and challenging of the notion of shareholder primacy, which delivered the final blow to farmer dominance in the grain business and