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Purple Prairie Pasture Enhancer Being Studied

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Old is new again. A native forb species once common on the Prairies is being studied as a cure for tired pastures and as a livestock feed with beneficial and unusual attributes. Purple prairie clover is a palatable legume that can be grazed at various stages of maturity. Sporting a purple, cone-shaped flower, the warm-season,
Dairy cattle, News

“Greed” Drives Quota Cost, Says Delegate

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What do Amish bishops and Canada’s supply management officials have in common? According to Ian Cumming, an Ontario dairy farmer who moved to the U.S. to escape the restrictions of quota, both provide insulation from an uncertain world, but at the cost of suffocating growth and initiative. “Our bishops at Dairy Farmers of Canada, like
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Manitoba Weekly Cattle Report

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Mo s t cattle auction marts across Manitoba continued to see steady to higher volumes and steady to higher prices during the week ending Dec. 3. “It hasn’t really changed in the last couple of weeks,” said Ryan Denhard of the Killarney Auction Mart. “The market and volumes have been very strong.” Denhard said with
Dairy cattle, News

Dairy Farmers Decide On New Digs

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Manitoba milk producers are going to have a new home. Dairy Farmers of Manitoba has decided on a new 15,800-square-foot office building to replace the current 22-year-old one located in south Winnipeg. DFM’s annual meeting last week passed a resolution to construct a new $5-million facility to house the milk board’s office, warehouse and milk-testing
Crops, Forages, Livestock

Keeping Wires Hot Amid Ice, Snow

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Keeping the cows fed all winter can be a real chore. First, you have to remember to keep the tractor plugged in so it will start when it’s needed. If it’s an old junker, you might want to keep a can of ether handy, too, for a good snort up the intake when it’s really
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Man Shot In Butchering Incident

St. Pierre Jolys RCMP have been investigating a shooting incident involving three Winnipegarea men going to butcher livestock in the La Barriere Park area east of La Salle. According to RCMP, the three men, all well known to each other, were at a shop Nov. 20 on Waverley Road in the R.M. of Ritchot, preparing
Beef cattle, Country Crossroads

Recipe Swap – for Dec. 9, 2010

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You might have read in our paper last week about the amount of food wasted in Canada every year. The numbers are eye popping. We are throwing away a mountain of food – about 40 per cent of all food produced in this country. That’s about $27 billion worth of edibles, or slightly less than
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Sask. sheds Melfort meat processing firm

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The Saskatchewan government’s two-year search for a buyer for its cash-losing Thomson Meats plant at Melfort has ended in the company’s head office. A company led by current Thomson CEO Paul Kowdrysh will pay $246,972.05 for the meat packer and assume all its debt and liabilities, the province announced last week. “Our role as government
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N.L. premier names replacement on farming file

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Danny Williams’ replacement as premier of Newfoundland and Labrador has delegated all her former ministerial portfolios, including the province’s agrifoods file. Kathy Dunderdale, who was sworn in as premier Friday and gave her inaugural speech Monday in the province’s House of Assembly, has named St. John’s Centre MHA Shawn Skinner as natural resources minister. The
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Ontario Pork splits marketing, farmer service wings

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Ontario’s hog agency says it’s completed its transition to an open-market organization just on the provincial ag minister’s deadline for it to do so. Ontario Pork on Monday said it officially split its operations into two separate divisions, Ontario Pork Universal Services and Ontario Pork Marketing Division, by Ag Minister Carol Mitchell’s Saturday (Dec. 4)

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