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Canola council moving on without Richardson

Outgoing chair optimistic about the future of canola and the CCC

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When Richardson International, Canada’s largest grain company, ceased being among the Canola Council of Canada’s (CCC) core funders last year, it raised questions about the group’s future. But after a lot of hard work in 2018 reviewing its operations and setting new priorities, the CCC is in good shape, outgoing chair David Dzisiak told reporters
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Trade, market access canola council priorities

2018 saw some progress through some new trade agreements

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Trade and market access are top priorities for the Canola Council of Canada (CCC), president Jim Everson told the CCC’s annual meeting here March 7. It’s not surprising given 90 per cent of Canada’s canola is exported. Last year was pivotal because new major trade agreements were taking shape or coming into force, he said.
Teacher Chelsey Kostesky was asked to sort grain product pieces as part of Keegan Gamey’s project on Advancement in Ag Technology.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Strathclair class digs deep into provincial history

Student projects encourage personal study rather than just memorizing facts

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Many young people no longer know a world where there was an alternative to the internet when doing a school project, such as going to the local library or picking up an encyclopedia. Although teaching is different than it used to be, schools continue to implement change in finding ways to arm students with the
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Emerging opposition

An informal network of drainage 
advocates has formed in Manitoba

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Stung by what they see as a lack of response and downright indifference from the province to the plight of local landowners, drainage advocates have begun to organize into an informal network across the province. In October 2017, a dozen of them sent a letter to Rochelle Squires, who then had just been appointed the
A samurai wasp lays an egg inside a brown marmorated stink bug egg. The samurai wasp’s offspring will develop inside the pest’s egg and emerge as an adult wasp.  PHOTO: WARREN WONG, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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Biocontrols often also invasive

They seem to be being unintentionally introduced 
the same way their prey is

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Regulatory limits to the introduction of biocontrols like parasitic wasps may prove to be a moot point. They could already be being unintentionally released into Canada along with their prey. Paul Abram, of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, has been looking for native predators for the brown marmorated stink bug, a pest introduced to B.C. in
The Canadian Grain Commission's head office in Winnipeg. Some in the industry would like to see the CGC's 'Certificate Final' quality guarantee made optional.
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AAFC launches CGC and grain act review

Chief commissioner downplays reports of disagreement among commissioners

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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has quietly launched a review of the Canadian Grain Act and its administrator the Canadian Grain Commission, sources have told the Manitoba Co-operator. The review, which has not been announced to the public, comes amid mistrust and division among the CGC’s three commissioners, according to several sources. CGC chief commissioner Patti
Lori Bremner, Tina Shaw and Bre Adams of Dauphin were some of the saddle riders who took part in the event.
Country Crossroads, Local news, Other

PHOTOS: Fifty sleighs converge on Riding Mountain National Park

The annual event known as the world’s largest sleigh ride is a fitting capstone to winter

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Just before the warmer weather began to move in, a total of 50 sleighs converged at the base of the Sugar Loaf Hills in Riding Mountain National Park, along with 20 saddle riders, for the annual event that’s said to be the world’s largest sleigh ride. Thirty of the teams travelled north from the Rossburn
Will and Jen Bergmann are Manitoba’s 2019 Outstanding Young Farmers.
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Will and Jen Bergmann named 2019 Manitoba OYF winners

The pair has embraced local food and 
social media to promote farming

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A Glenlea couple is Manitoba’s 2019 Outstanding Young Farmers. Will and Jen Bergmann of Bergmann Bros. were named the winners of the provincial award earlier this month at an event at the Elkhorn Resort. Will Bergmann grew up on the family operation, south of Winnipeg, and he and Jen returned to the farm about seven
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Roquette boosts plant beauty products

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The company behind a Portage la Prairie pea-processing plant is going into the plant-based cosmetics business in a big way. Roquette recently announced a “strengthened” arrangement with Sytheon, a U.S.-based specialty ingredient company for the personal care market in a media release. The two are partnering to produce cosmetic ingredients and cosmetic products derived from
Canada’s new agriculture minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau, sworn in March 1, made her first formal address March 7 to the inaugural Canadian Crops Convention in Montreal where she stressed her priorities include ensuring market access for Canadian agricultural exports. Bibeau told reporters she was surprised there hasn’t been a female agriculture minister until now given the role women play in family farms.  PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON
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Market access, trade priorities for Canada’s new ag minister

Marie-Claude Bibeau acknowledges challenges in first speech

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Ensuring market access, including getting Canadian canola into China, and promoting trade, are top priorities for Canada’s new agriculture minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau. “I already understand we have ongoing market access issues that I have to get into really quickly… ” Bibeau, sworn in March 1, told reporters after her first public address as agriculture minister

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