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Editorial: Provincial benefit

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There isn’t even a firm proposal on the table and already folks are lining up to argue over where any future soybean-crushing plant should be built in the province. Among the first out of the gate was a group in western Manitoba, that last year commissioned a feasibility study on the concept of building the
While the Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers supports efforts to attract a soybean-crushing plant to Manitoba the association is neutral on where in the province it’s built, says executive director Francois Labelle.
Local news, Oilseeds, Pulses

MPSG clarifies position on a Manitoba soybean-crushing plant

The association supports the goal, but says the location will be decided by the company that builds

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Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers (MPSG) supports efforts to attract a soybean-crushing plant to Manitoba, but is neutral on where it’s built, says association executive director Francois Labelle. “We want to see a facility built in Manitoba,” Labelle said in an interview Sept. 29. “That has been our position since we first started talking about
Multicoloured Asian lady beetles search around the outside of a house in south-central Manitoba, looking for a good spot to spend the winter.
Local news, Other

Weathering the swarm

Lady beetles were a welcome addition to the field this summer, but the overwintering habits of one non-native species now has some rural residents irked

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They’re on walls. They’re on ceilings. They’re on cups left in cupboards and anything left outside. If you’re in south-central Manitoba and feel something crawling on your arm, chances are it’s a lady beetle. The annual swarm is nothing new to rural Manitobans during September and October, but populations are particularly hearty this year with
Late-season verticillium in canola appears as black peppering beneath the flaking outer surface of the stem.
Crops, Local news

Fall field scouting can highlight diseases

Verticillium and Goss’s wilt are both easily spotted near or after harvest

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Field scouting doesn’t stop with the combine, but it does become more specific, according to Dr. Vikram Bisht, pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture. “Usually, to scout for soil-borne pathogens is not an easy thing because you have to do a lot of laboratory work, but if you have the pathogens which survive in the crop residue
Livestock, Local news

EIA down, but not necessarily out, with incoming cold

The risk of spreading equine infectious anemia is slowing down as cold weather lowers fly populations, 
but the CFIA warns that more cases might be detected next year

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The federally appointed veterinarian in Manitoba’s equine infectious anemia (EIA) scare says he expects positive results to trickle in through 2018. Alex McIsaac, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) western animal health specialist, said a number of EIA carriers in the province have slipped through the cracks until now due to infrequent testing. Animals infected with
Heritage Co-op’s Marketplace on Richmond drew the lunch crowd in Brandon for one of several FCC Drive Away Hunger events the company has on the schedule this month.
Local news, Other

Manitobans sign up to Drive Away Hunger

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) hopes to add at least five million 
meals’ worth of support to Canada’s food banks through its 
over-month-long Drive Away Hunger campaign

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Combines may be busy on the field, but Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is occupied with a different kind of harvest. This year marks 14 years of FCC’s Drive Away Hunger campaign, a joint fundraising and food drive held nationally by FCC each fall in support of Food Banks Canada. The program launched Sept. 6 and
A steam shovel loading fill onto Manitoba and North Western flatcars. Steam shovels were capable of swinging the boom from side to side but the boom was fixed in position and only the bucket or dipper and the “dipper stick” could be raised and lowered. However, the dipper stick can be moved in and out. One can make out the rack bolted to the bottom of the dipper stick over the shoulder of the man in the bowler hat and vest. The large gear on the side of the boom worked a pinion which ran the rack back and forth. A small steam engine mounted on the boom worked this gear. The movable dipper stick made the steam shovel more effective. Other steam engines on the shovel swung the boom from side to side as required and worked the winch which raised and lowered the dipper.
Country Crossroads, Local news, Other

The Manitoba and North Western Railway

The now-forgotten railway was one of the region’s ‘colonization railways’

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In the photo collection of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum, there is photo of several railway flatcars marked Manitoba and North Western. These cars belonged to a railway operating in Manitoba between 1881 and 1900. The Government of Canada in the early 1880s embarked upon a policy of granting land subsidies to small railway companies in
Jason Kang with Capital K Distillery took first place at the Great Manitoba Food Fight for his dill pickle vodka. Kang was competing in a new category introduced at the event for beer and spirits.
Local news

Dill pickle vodka and chicken wings earn top prizes in 2017 food fight

The Great Manitoba Food Fight introduced a new beer and spirits edition to the competition this year in recognition 
of the emerging Manitoba industry

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The man behind Manitoba’s first family-owned grain-to-bottle spirit producer has taken home a $5,000 cash prize in a new category at this year’s Great Manitoba Food Fight. Jason Kang’s dill pickle vodka is the young master distiller’s most recent release under his Tall Grass label and its blend of wheat and rye, dill and cucumber
VIDEO: Food Matters Manitoba tweaks organization at AGM
Local news, Other

VIDEO: Food Matters Manitoba tweaks organization at AGM

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To better reflect the organization’s focus, Food Matters Manitoba has updated its bylaws and broadened its scope. “We’ve made the shift to be more broad when we talk about accessibility to food …. just that focus on providing education about food isn’t enough,” said out-going chair, Angela Chotka at the organization’s recent annual general meeting in downtown
Monsanto workers Nathalie de Rocquigny (l), Celeste Giesbrecht and Kwok Chu Tom Li (r) test corn for its response to pathogens on Monsanto’s research farm 
near Carman June 20, 2017.
Crops, News

Drowning in grains once again

How Big Ag sowed seeds of a profit-slashing glut

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On Canada’s fertile Prairies, dominated by the yellows and golds of canola and wheat, summers are too short to grow corn on a major scale. But Monsanto is working to develop what it hopes will be North America’s fastest-maturing corn, allowing farmers to grow more in Western Canada and other inhospitable climates, such as Ukraine. The seed

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