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“If we get to the point that we have to use regulations to enforce [it], it’s not working.” – Cam Dahl, Manitoba Pork Council.
Hogs, News

Pork sector has new playbook against PED

The Manitoba Pork Council’s new PED elimination plan relies on surveillance, biosecurity and aggressive action, but leaves room for farms to tailor responses

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Manitoba Pork’s new plan to combat porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PED, relies on disease surveillance, ‘wartime’ biosecurity, heavy crackdowns on infected farms and producer co-operation to eliminate the virus from the province. “The long-term impacts of a major PED outbreak every other year is not sustainable,” the plan document says. The pork council posted the
The interior of the HyLife Foods pork processing plant in Neepawa, Man.
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Production to be minimally affected in HyLife layoffs

The Manitoba layoffs are mainly administrative staff, though the company also recently shuttered its Minnesota facility

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La Broquerie-based pork company HyLife Foods says production will be minimally affected by layoffs it announced last week. “We are carefully restructuring to endure the current global conditions,” said president and CEO Grant Lazaruk in a June 9 news release, which announced the layoff of 87 employees, most of them administrative staff. The company has
“There’s a tremendous amount of water taken up by the plants that ends up right back in the atmosphere as water vapour. In fact, in dryland farming, the majority of that water is just cycled right back to the atmosphere.” – Paul Bullock.
News, Weather

Rainfall 101: a refresher on how it makes or breaks your crop

Revisiting the basics of how plants use that moisture top-up

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In the Prairies, spring meltwater may give emerging crops a good start, but the finish is up to the rain. “If you had your clay soils filled to their maximum water-holding capacity and then it doesn’t rain on them for the rest of the crop season, you’re going to have a crop failure,” said Paul
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Crops, News

Soil sensors aim for real-time results

The technology is still being refined, but is advancing quickly

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Glacier FarmMedia – Soil nutrient sensor technology offers to save producers time and money, but do those promises measure up? The answer so far is a tentative yes, according to researchers at Olds College in Alberta. “It’s showing quite a bit of promise,” said Abby Sim, a research technician at the college. It’s an easier
The current fair market value method of compensation for conservation easements is flawed, says a professor of agribusiness and agricultural economics at the U of M.
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Conservation easement payment ‘flawed’

A Saskatchewan stock growers’ group is seeking to reform easement structure, compensation

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Landowners and ranchers don’t get enough for conservation easements to offset the opportunity cost, according to a study commissioned by a Saskatchewan producer group. Mindy Hockley, assistant program manager with the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Foundation, noted that farmers can calculate what they’ll get for breaking up land and converting it to grain crop use. Compared
milkweed
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Milkweed a problem in some areas of rural Manitoba

Traditionally only seen in ditches, milkweed is moving in-field

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Milkweed is appearing in many Manitoba fields. “For the longest time, we’ve really only seen it in ditches,” said Manitoba Agriculture weed specialist Kim Brown-Livingston. “But now we are seeing a lot more of this in fields.” It has cropped up particularly in central Manitoba, she added. Why it matters: Milkweed is critical for the
The interior of Burcon’s Winnipeg Technical Centre.
News

Burcon adds processor scale-up services

Company says the move leverages its expertise and equipment to attract new business

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Manitoba agri-food processors will soon be able to access Burcon’s protein processing equipment to help get their food products to market. Burcon NutraScience Corporation, which focuses on plant proteins and ingredients for the food and beverage sector, says it will offer start-to-finish product development services for processors. “We saw that gap in the industry and
A Rural STEP work crew on the job near Russell, Man., in August 1973.
News, Other

Calling former STEP participants! We want to hear from you

Did you take part in the Rural STEP work program in the 1970s? We’d like to hear from you

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The Manitoba Co-operator is searching for people who took part in the Rural STEP program, which began in 1973 and ran until the late 1970s. We would like to interview you as part of a story looking back on the program and its impact. The program hired Grade 11-12 students onto work crews, each supervised
Mazergroup executive joins equipment dealers’ board
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Mazergroup executive joins equipment dealers’ board

North American Equipment Dealers Association adds Manitoba name

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The chief financial officer for Manitoba-based Mazergroup has joined the board of the North American Equipment Dealers Association. The association announced June 2 it had elected four new members to its board, including Wally Butler, chief financial officer for the Brandon-based equipment dealership chain. NAEDA, an advocacy organization for retail equipment dealers, is based in Kansas City and has a Canadian office in Calgary.
Jill Verwey (left) and Ian Steppler.
News

University of Manitoba honours Verwey, Steppler

Faces of Ag: The University of Manitoba’s School of Agriculture has honored 90 people since the award was founded in the early 1980s

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Two Manitoban agriculture leaders were honoured for outstanding professional contributions and public service at a University of Manitoba celebration June 1. Jill Verwey and Ian Steppler received certificates of merit, presented by the faculty and the School of Agriculture, a June 2 news release from the university read. Verwey runs a mixed dairy, beef and

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