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CanoLAB participants worked through an exercise of extracting the DNA from a strawberry to get a better understanding of how canola diagnostics work.
Crops, Local news, Oilseeds

Canola issues, close up and hands on

CanoLAB participants were given an overview of how different crops are best integrated into canola rotations

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This year’s canoLAB put a sharp focus on canola rotations and expanded the scope slightly, beyond a single crop. “This year we are not only looking at canola but crops that would be in rotation with canola, so it is intended to be a holistic or systems approach to farming,” said Angela Brackenreed, agronomy specialist
Local news, Weather

Province advises spring run-off has started in Manitoba

Red River peak expected to move from Emerson to Winnipeg in next ive to six days

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Province of Manitoba – The Hydrologic Forecast Centre at Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation advises that spring run-off due to snowmelt has started in most of the southern, southwest, southeast and Interlake regions. Above-freezing temperatures earlier this month in southern and central Manitoba, adjacent provinces and the United States have led to an early spring melt.  The
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Direct farm marketers are forming a new association

The former farmers’ market association is broadening its mandate

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The Farmers’ Markets Association of Manitoba has a new name, new classes of voting memberships and a new mandate. Voting delegates of the former FMAM, organized in 2007, agreed last week to change its name to Direct Farm Marketing Association of Manitoba Co-op Inc. so it can represent the broader interests of all those who
Danny Mann, professor and head of the department of biosystems engineering at University of Manitoba stands on the mock-up staircase built at the university so researchers could compare access paths on farm equipment, including the steps, angles and spacing and how different designs impacted knee joints of users.
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Safety by design

Farmer feedback builds safer equipment

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A guy walks into a tool department with his thumb bandaged, complaining about his new hammer. It keeps hitting two inches to the left. That’s actually not a joke. As any carpenter will tell you, you can hammer all day with a good hammer that’s the right fit for your hand, but if you use
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Business forum brings world to Winnipeg in May

Small to mid-size businesses will have a speed-dating opportunity with other businesses

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Winnipeg will be reaching out to the rest of the world May 25-27 as it hosts a business-to-business forum that will allow participants to travel the globe for opportunities. That forum, to be held at the RBC Convention Centre, is just one component of an event called Centrallia, which will see more than 700 participants
Winnipeg Galina Beilis is the owner of Dairy Fairy, a small-batch cheese company, making a traditional cheese at the University of Manitoba’s Dairy Plant.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Winnipegger introducing a new ‘old’ cheese to the market

Dairy Fairy cheese maker Galina Beilis has eaten this fresh cheese since she was a child. Now she’s making a business producing and selling it

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Galina Beilis’s cheese might be new to Man­itoba, but as she’ll tell you, there’s really nothing new about it. The recipe is as simple as it is old. Farmers and villagers have been making it for centuries and it dates back to the discovery of milk going sour when you left it at a warm
Local government wants greater share of tax dollar
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Local government wants greater share of tax dollar

Municipalities say the money is needed to sustain key infrastructure

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Most Manitobans agree local councils should get a fairer share of infrastructure tax dollars and have greater say in how they’re spent. That’s according to a recent poll conducted for the Association of Manitoba Municipalities which showed 85 per cent of those surveyed by NPG Research in January think local government should have access to
Elections Manitoba reaches out to young voters
Did you know?, Local news

Elections Manitoba reaches out to young voters

Grade 11 and 12 students can get paid to work on election day

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Three hands-on programs invite young Manitobans to engage in the electoral process during the upcoming provincial election. CitizenNext, the Student Information Officer program, and Your Power to Choose are designed to foster the habit of electoral participation among children and youth. “By providing opportunities for young people to participate in this election, we hope to
Big Grass Marsh near Gladstone is essential habitat for waterfowl and wildlife while filtering pollutants from water entering the Lake Winnipeg watershed. In the late 1930s it became the first conservation program of Ducks Unlimited Canada.
Local news

Illegal trench now repaired at Big Grass Marsh

The job ahead — finding a way to reduce flooding in the area — will be more complicated

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An illegal trench dug at Big Grass Marsh before freeze-up last fall is fixed, with the province, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and Whitemud Watershed Conservation District (WWCD) picking up the tab. Work crews hauled clay and rock to the site of the Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) dam north of Gladstone in early February and filled

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