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A variety of pulses offer opportunities in the kitchen.
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Put Prairie pulses on your plate

Recipes: Pulse crops are a Prairie-grown nutrition powerhouse

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Pulses are among the hidden treasures of the Prairies. Packed with protein, fibre and a wealth of health benefits, pulses like lentils, chickpeas, dry peas and dry beans are waiting to be discovered. Pulse versus legume The words pulse and legume are not interchangeable. Legume is the broad term for plants from the Fabaceae family.
Mark Olson, president of Flokk Systems, reads an RFID tag with the Flokk reader. The product promises to bring farm data into easy, practical use in the cow-calf side of the cattle sector.
Beef cattle, News

Device promises practical cow-calf data collection

Alberta company aims for easy cow-side data collection and traceability

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Glacier FarmMedia – When Bill Leask and Mark Olson met at a Lion’s Club meeting about four years ago, Leask was a cow-calf operator with a need and Olson was an information technology expert who could build him a solution. That meeting resulted in the development of Flokk Systems, pitched as a durable hardware and
Industry wary of federal immigration plan
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Industry wary of federal immigration plan

Temporary workers should not be confused with international students: farm group

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The 2024 federal budget’s promise to reduce “temporary immigration” could reduce the number of temporary foreign workers available to Canadian agriculture and ag businesses. The document states the government “will reduce the share of temporary residents in Canada to five per cent of the total population over the next three years,” which it estimates will result in approximately 600,000 fewer
JBS signage at Greeley, Colorado. (JBS.com.br)
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JBS Brazil plant temporarily closed over labour irregularities

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By Ana ManoA JBS beef plant in the centre-west state of Goias, Brazil, was ordered shut for two days by labour auditors due to irregular work conditions, one of the inspectors said April 17.  JBS immediately presented “an adaptation plan” that was accepted by the Ministry of Labor and Employment and is being executed, the
Daughter Kateryna Zhovtyak founded a bakery before the war, but is now in uniform.
News, Other

From Ukraine: On the home front

Polina Zhovtyak keeps the home fires burning as her husband and daughter serve in the Ukrainian army

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After more than two years of all-out war, I have heard many incredible stories of people and how they cope, survive and even thrive. At times I think I will be surprised by nothing. In some parts of the country, in relatively peaceful regions, some live much as they did before the war. In other
Cattle come face to face with wild pigs. Such wildlife interactions pose a potential foothold for disease to infect livestock.
Hogs, Livestock, News

Hog-wild: beware the wild pigs

Wild pigs continue to be an invasive species threat in Manitoba

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Wild pigs are defined as any pig living outside the control of people, including Eurasian wild boar and their hybrids and feral domestic pigs now living in the wild. The biggest threat, however, is posed by Eurasian wild boar, which have adapted to our climate and have become a destructive invasive species. They have been

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