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Remembering the ol’ swimming hole in Carman

The local municipal heritage group in Carman has installed a commemorative sign where now only stairs and partial walkways remain of the former Boyne River Swimming Pool

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The local pool will soon close as the end of summer nears and swimmers hang up their beach towels to return to school. There was a time when “the pool” never closed. It was the river. Rural Manitobans of a certain vintage will remember diving into their favourite swimming holes off riverbanks, but their children
Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 18
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 18

Conditions as of August 31, 2015

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Sporadic rainfall and high humidity levels slowed harvest progress and haying operations across Manitoba. The recent weather is also resulting in quality loss in some crop types. A strong weather system passed through several areas of the Central Region the morning of August 28. Heavy rains and small to large-sized hail resulted in varying amounts
Roslyn Morris Deveson 
1933 -
Local news

Agricultural Hall of Fame: Roslyn Morris Deveson

The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame inducted eight new members 
in July 2015. Here is one of the new inductees

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The youngest of eight children, Roslyn Morris Deveson was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, on February 1, 1933. He was raised on a mixed farm at Arden and attended Inkerman elementary school. Following high school in Neepawa, Morris attended the University of Manitoba from which he graduated with a bachelor of science in agriculture (B.S.A.) in
Crop breeder Doug Cattani is working with a variety of potential perennial crops but says intermediate wheatgrass right now looks the most promising.
Crops, Local news

Perennial grain crops are one step closer

The goal is to find ways to grow food that will reduce the need 
for fertilizers, herbicides, and annual seed purchase

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Seed it once, then sell everything except the combine and just keep harvesting year after year. It might not work out quite that way, but a perennial grain crop that can withstand cold Prairie winters is a little closer to reality for Canadian farmers. University of Manitoba perennial crop breeder Doug Cattani has been at
“If you look at our regulations our obligation is not to sell anything that doesn’t meet standards, which is Canada No. 1 and Canada No. 2 in the case of onions. However, we will try to find them a sale in processing or anywhere we can.” Larry McIntosh.
Local news

Veggie marketing wars continue

A second grower is taking aim at Peak’s practices

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Another Manitoba vegetable grower is claiming Peak of the Market rejects too much produce, which costs growers and wastes food. Idzerd Boersma of S. B. Vegetable Growers near Portage la Prairie has joined Jeffries Brothers Vegetable Growers in calling on Peak to allow farmers to sell their own produce if Peak won’t. And it appears
Close up of soy bean plant
Local news, Pulses

Soybeans in full seed stage, development slightly ahead compared to 2014

The Bean Report for August 25, 2015

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Soybeans The majority of soybeans are in the full seed stage, R-6 (full seed). Overall, soybean development is slightly ahead of 2014 with some fields starting to turn from green to yellow, and harvest may begin in early September. These early maturing fields correspond to very early planting, early varieties as well as some moisture
Clarence Baker
 1928 –2006
Local news

Agricultural Hall of Fame: Clarence Baker

The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame inducted eight new members 
in July 2015. Here is one of the new inductees

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Clarence Baker was born to Anton and Pauline Baker on July 7, 1928 in Cromwell, Manitoba. Anton immigrated to Canada with his parents from Beckersdorf, Austria in 1896. In 1951, Clarence and his new bride, Ilene Weidman, took over the third-generation family farm which included the 240 acres of land that his grandfather had purchased
Ernie Jeffries holds carrots taken from the brown box. They’re too small to grade Canada No. 1 or 2 so they have to go for cattle feed along with carrots in the beige box culled because they are too big, too small, broken or misshaped. According to Jeffries the small carrots and many of the culls are fine for human consumption.
Local news

VIDEO: What’s up doc? Too many carrots seen going to cows instead of people

Jeffries Brothers blames Peak of the Market and worries about the 
future of their operation and Manitoba’s carrot industry

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Manitoba’s largest carrot growers say the grading practices of the provincially regulated vegetable-marketing board threaten to push the family farm out of business. Ernie Jeffries, who operates Jeffries Brothers Vegetable Growers with his brother Roland and father Dave, wants permission to sell carrots rejected by Peak of the Market outside of the regulated system. Jeffries
Lisa Roy and Erron Leafloor handle the task of forking stooked wheat into the thresher.
Local news, News, News & Opinion

PHOTOS: Getting organized to thresh for the record

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Volunteers from the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Manitoba Agricultural Museum brought their skills, and their iron, to Winnipeg Tuesday to show the sort of work a world-record threshing bee is made of. The demonstration of old-school threshing was held at the Red River Exhibition fairgrounds as a preview of Harvesting Hope, an event scheduled for
Merle Tomyk, secretary treasurer and Doug Pickell, chair of the Stonewall-Rockwood Kurelek Tribute Citizens Committee hold a calendar with “The Manitoba Party” painting of William Kurelek. Their committee will unveil a monument in honour of William Kurelek August 23. The monument was designed to look like the tent in the painting.
Local news

Hometown artist William Kurelek honoured near Stonewall

Few know the world-famous artist grew up on a dairy farm near the community north of Winnipeg

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Some know a great artist grew up on a farm near here and was inspired by the Interlake landscape around them. But not many. Later this month, a small local citizens’ group hopes to begin to change that by unveiling a monument dedicated to Canadian artist William Kurelek. The site is at the corner of

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