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“Off the Beaten Path” research tour.
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Excitement building for Ag in Motion

Ag in Motion will return to Langham, Sask., this year from July 18-20

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All the favourite field tours and demonstrations will be back at this year’s Ag in Motion show, and according to show director, Rob O’Connor, the excitement is building. “I think what excites me as a show director is how the farmers really take the time to look at what’s here,” he said. O’Connor is in
Myrna Grahn is the new executive director of ProteinMB, an industry-led group tasked with carrying out the province’s protein strategy.
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Province establishes strategic protein research chair

Priorities include funding research, developing opportunities for students, providing extension to industry and producer groups, says appointee

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The province has pledged $1.5 million over six years to support protein research and extension work ahead of the third annual Manitoba Sustainable Protein Research Symposium. James House was named the Manitoba strategic research chair in sustainable protein, a position he says will include doling out the promised funds so that researchers can pursue protein-related
A health economist did a cost of illness study examining savings across Canada if people with hypertension adopted a flax-based treatment.
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Flax, pulses could reduce health care costs: researcher

Canada’s health care costs keep rising, but better health could reduce that trend

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Diets supplemented with flaxseed and pulses can reduce risk of certain diseases and thus curtail Canada’s health care spending. That was the message presented to attendees of the Manitoba Sustainable Protein Research Symposium in Winnipeg June 21. The speaker was Luc Clair, a health economist and principal investigator with the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research
“It doesn’t yet seem like there’s an abundance of used equipment in the market at this point, whereas before the pandemic, there would have been a good amount of used out there.” – Landis Stankievech, Trochu Motors.
Equipment, News

Farm equipment status quo returns

Prices are still high, but experts say that’s largely not due to stalled supply chains

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Glacier FarmMedia – It’s been a long, hard road, but the Canadian farm equipment industry is mostly back to its pre-pandemic state. The pull effect of two years of high sales has worked its way through the system and supply chain complications have eased. That means farmers are more likely to get their equipment when
First-cut yield varies, matching spotty rainfall.
Crops, News

Growers report patchy hay with patchy rain

Sporadic rain has led to varied forage yields for Manitoba’s first cut

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Manitoba’s first-cut hay volume is hit or miss, depending on location of patchy thunderstorms responsible for most of the growing season’s precipitation. “Because they’re deep-rooted and we had relatively good soil moisture in the spring, the first crop of alfalfa is looking not too bad,” said John McGregor, forage expert with the Manitoba Forage and
Markets, News

Soybean influx into China cools buying appetite

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Reuters – A flood of Brazilian soybeans into China is weighing on soymeal purchases and may curb buying of beans later in the year, traders and analysts said. Soybean arrivals into the world’s top buyer have been running at record levels since the start of the year, after a record crop in Brazil pushed down
Greenhouse-grown canola plant with two introduced clubroot resistance genes shows promise for the future, says researcher Fengqun Yu.
Crops, News

Clubroot ‘race profiling’ can help boost resistance in canola

Research team sets stage for next generation of canola resistance

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Glacier FarmMedia – Racial profiling isn’t a term most people would want to be associated with. When it’s a disease like clubroot, however, it’s different. In the fight against the yield-stealing, soil-borne scourge of canola and other brassica plants, racial profiling is the ability to select varieties that resist not only clubroot in general, but
Live fish hit the road
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Live fish hit the road

Manitoba fisheries to get new stocking truck

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Stocked trout are arriving in Manitoba’s lakes via a new fish hatchery stocking truck, the province announced June 15. Natural Resources and Northern Development Minister Greg Nesbitt said the new vehicle is already on the road. As of mid-June, the truck’s route was taking it into the Duck Mountains region. Last year, East Blue Lake
Soyoil futures recently found themselves in a near vertical uptrend, gaining more than 25 per cent.
Markets, News

Veg oil markets bubble up from depths

Expert's Radar: Dry conditions lift futures well off recent lows

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Mini-donuts, churros, beaver tails, rollkuchen, funnel cake, corndogs, French fries, even Mars bars — they all taste better when fried in oil. The summer festival season of fried food from food trucks is just getting underway, while the markets for the vegetable oils filling all those deep fryers have also been heating up. Soyoil Since
Conservation officers speak during a field day on livestock predation in 2022.
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Manitoba Conservation to get centralized dispatch

The 24-7 service will be offered out of Brandon

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Manitoba’s conservation officers will operate through a 24-7 dispatch service in the near future, the province said June 14. In a joint release, Natural Resources and Northern Development Minister Greg Nesbitt and Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen said the move would “enhance officer safety in the field and strengthen environmental enforcement across the province.” The province

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