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General manager of Manitoba Beef Producers, Melinda German, reviewed the group’s efforts and advancements over the past year at the District 7 meeting held in Strathclair on November 6.
Beef cattle, Local news

Manitoba Beef Producers provide industry, organization updates

Beef producers are meeting throughout the province

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Beef producers have been filling community halls across the province over the past month to hear updates on animal health concerns, industry support tools and progress made on trade agreements and research initiatives. Members of the Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) organization gathered in Strathclair on November 6 as general manger, Melinda German reviewed efforts made
Manitoba potato growers harvested a record crop this year, says Dan Sawatzky, manager of the Keystone Potato Growers Association Inc., which represents processing potato growers.
Crops, Local news

Record yields for Manitoba potato growers in 2015

A long growing season boosted yields in a year when farmers had to 
contend with hail, heat, insects and disease

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Manitoba potato growers harvested a record crop of spuds this fall, says Dan Sawatzky, manager of the Keystone Potato Growers Association Inc. Yields averaged 315 (hundredweight) bags an acre on 67,300 acres of processing, table, chipping and seed potatoes,” he said in a recent interview. “Coupled with that, we got a slight increase in prices,”
Female hands holding an aubergine
Local news

Small farmers considering their own organization

Nov. 24 meeting will explore how to best represent small-scale farms

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Small-scale producers who sell mostly direct to consumers will meet next week to decide whether they have enough in common to form a new Manitoba farm organization. A good turnout for the meeting Nov. 24 is expected, but it remains to be seen whether they can unify under an umbrella organization, one of the organizers
Hillcrest Museum, located next to Souris’s famous swinging bridge, resides in a stunning stone and brick 1910 building built on the banks of the Souris River and showcases 
a huge variety of local, municipal, military, school and family histories. Souris is home to three museums including ‘The Plum Heritage Church museum dating to 1883 and 
the Souris railway museum.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Who visits small-town museums?

What is the reason for your visit? Two-year BU study takes a look at traffic through small-town museums

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Two thousand people passed through the doors of the 1910 castle-like Hillcrest Museum in Souris this summer. That’s a lot visitors for a museum its size, says Keven Bowie, treasurer at the museum. “We were quite amazed at the traffic,” he said. “We were only open during July and August, mainly.” Hillcrest is strategically located
Calvin Vaags, principal owner of True North Foods, says he’s hopeful CFIA officials will soon give the processing plant near Carman its federal stamp of approval.
Beef cattle, Local news

Processing plant close to getting federal stamp, says owner

When CFIA gives green light, processing will jump to around 1,000 a week. The plant has capacity to expand

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True North Foods, a beef-processing plant near Carman, expects it will have its federal licence very soon, says the plant’s principal owner Calvin Vaags. “I’ve been saying ‘two weeks’ for a long time,” he said during a recent tour by the Manitoba Beef Background and Feedlot School at October’s end, joking he’s considered wearing a
Crops, Local news

BASF Kids’ Lab at two schools in Manitoba

Grades 4 to 6 program demonstrates the importance of soil

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BASF Canada has partnered with Earth Rangers to deliver a series of hands-on chemistry workshops developed by BASF for students in Grades 4 through 6 in rural schools across Canada. In Manitoba, the workshops will be delivered in Portage and Brandon. Earth Rangers, The Kids’ Conservation Organization, teaches children about biodiversity and the importance of
Baxter Blair, age 13, of McLean, Sask., gets busy grooming as he prepares for his turn in the ring at the 2015 Manitoba Ag Ex.
Livestock, Local news

Putting the past year’s work on display

Brandon played host to Manitoba’s largest all-breed cattle show, 
showcasing more than 500 head of cattle

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Cattle breeders’ hard work and dedication were put on display at Ag Ex, Manitoba’s largest all-breed cattle show. Formerly known as the Manitoba Livestock Expo, Ag Ex was held in Brandon at the Westoba Agriculture Centre of Excellence on Oct. 29 to 31. This annual event provides Manitoba cattle producers the venue to highlight and
Rick Korman was awarded the 2014 Conservation District Award for his years of dedication to improving the Killarney watershed.
Local news

Teaching with conservation in mind

Killarney biology teacher Rick Korman has a passion to find a solution for the community’s algae-ridden lake

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Biology teacher Rick Korman likes to give his students a practical demonstration of how the science applies to local lakes and rivers. “Any time you can make curriculum have purpose and meaning for kids, the better chance they are going to have to acquiring whatever objective you are trying to teach,” said Korman, who has
Paul Laliberte began running a full-time private practice on Minnedosa’s Main Street this spring.
Country Crossroads, Local news

What’s your big idea for a local business?

Business forum aims to link new rural business owners with mentorship, 
financial supports and business management advice

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Paul Laliberte had a good job as a physiotherapist working at the Minnedosa hospital when he decided to go into private practice. “I think every entrepreneur can say at some point in time a seed is planted,” he told a business forum in Minnedosa last week. “Mine started with just a discontent with punching a
"There were a lot of good things about it, but I just didn't want to do it anymore." – John Duvenaud
Crops, Local news

GrainWorld outlook conference dead unless a new organizer steps up

Wild Oats publisher John Duvenaud, who put on the meetings the last four years, doesn’t want to do them anymore

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Wild Oats GrainWorld, one of Western Canada’s main annual grain outlook conferences, will no longer be held unless someone new wants to take on the job, says conference organizer John Duvenaud. “I’ve run four,” Duvenaud, who owns and publishes the Wild Oats grain-marketing newsletter, said in an interview Oct. 21. “They’ve all made money. It’s

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