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Melissa Pawlisch, director with the University of Minnesota’s Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) was a guest speaker at the Manitoba Sustainable Energy Association conference in Winnipeg earlier this month.
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Clean energy can drive rural economy

Speakers call for switching out some of the $4 billion now spent on fossil fuel imports to Manitoba with homegrown renewable energy sources

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Businesses are powered by solar panels on rooftops in downtown Minneapolis while small towns across the state source solar energy from “solar gardens” and farms harness the power of the sun to power up their barns. Minnesota has become a leading U.S. state for its adoption of solar and other renewable energy sources, thanks to
A farmer checks his soybean crop in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
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The ‘breadbasket’ of the tropics?

Brazil’s tropical grain growers are upending the conventional wisdom on grain production

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One of your major grain-growing competitors has been turning the world on its ear by producing grain in a tropical locale. Historically the tropics have been among the poorest regions, with the lowest agriculture productivity and highest incidents of malnutrition. It wasn’t until the late-1990s the tropics began to emerge as a possible region for
Drivers encouraged to focus on safety as farm traffic increases
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Drivers encouraged to focus on safety as farm traffic increases

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Manitoba Agriculture and Manitoba Infrastructure are encouraging farmers, drivers and agricultural equipment operators to make road safety a priority this spring.  Warmer temperatures mean an increase in oversized equipment travelling on Manitoba highways is expected to begin soon. Farmers and agricultural equipment operators need to: ensure all machinery is equipped with proper lighting, signage and
Masses of multicoloured Asian lady beetles often form in darker, concealed locations, says Manitoba Agriculture entomologist John Gavloski.
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Getting bugged

Last year was a particularly bad outbreak, but that won’t necessarily carry over

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Homeowners were aghast last fall when nightmarish numbers of Asian lady beetles descended on their doorsteps, then made themselves right at home — indoors. These bugs “completely enveloped” their new home one day last September, recalls Susan Mooney, a retired public health nurse who lives with her husband on a rural acreage near Carman. “They
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KAP delegates raise flag over biosecurity breaches

Farmers cite incidents of provincial inspectors, hydro meter readers bypassing inspection stations

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Anyone entering a restricted area of a livestock farm can increase the risk of spreading diseases farm to farm. It’s why farms have biosecurity measures in place and producers are vigilant to limit those coming and going on it. But as district representatives at Keystone Agriculture Producers’ spring meeting point out, some provincial government personnel
CP's CEO said it will not sign a bad agreement that threatens the company’s long-term profitability.
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Pending CP Rail strike bad news for Manitoba farmers

The railway supplies most rail cars in 
the province

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A pending strike at CP Rail will hit Manitoba farmers especially hard, says Dan Mazier, president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP). “Sixty-two per cent of all Manitoba car orders are with CP,” Mazier said in an interview April 23. In Manitoba there are 50 and 29 grain elevators on CP and CN Rail lines,
Manitoba farmland regions.
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FCC breaks down 2017 Manitoba farmland values by region

The Parkland region saw the biggest average percentage increase, while Central Plains-Pembina Valley was unchanged from 2016

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While Manitoba farmland values rose five per cent in 2017, there were regional differences, says the 2017 FCC Farmland Values Report released April 23. “In general, Manitoba saw higher-priced land values remaining relatively stable, while low- to mid-priced land values recorded increases,” the report says. The biggest percentage increase was in the Parkland region at
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Rising farmland prices puts agriculture at risk

That’s what the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry says in a recent report

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Higher farmland prices make it harder for young farmers to get into farming and or expand, but they have options, says J.P. Gervais, Farm Credit Canada’s vice-president and chief agricultural economist. “I do believe now there are more options for young producers in terms of getting involved in different supply chains that don’t necessarily require
Serafine and her family are now healthier than they’ve ever been.
Country Crossroads, News

Planting seeds of change in Rwanda

ADRA Canada supports and educates mothers so children can survive and thrive

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When you hear the word “Rwanda” what comes to your mind? If you’re like many people, it’s the tragic genocide that happened in 1993. For others, it might be images of rolling, lush hills of various shades of green, a kind of African Ireland. Or maybe, you have memories of travels to this tiny but
Black soldier flies are held in a pen at the Enterra Feed Corporation in Langley, British Columbia.
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Bugging out

Insect farms gear up to feed soaring global protein demand

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Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10 high in a warehouse outside of Vancouver. They are feeding on stale bread, rotting mangoes, overripe cantaloupe and squishy zucchini. But this is no garbage dump. It’s a farm. Enterra Feed, one of an emerging crop of insect growers, will process the

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