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Ice jam at Selkirk sees flood potential rise for lower Red River

Manitoba Flood Bulletin No. 1

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 30, 2017

Province of Manitoba – Manitoba Infrastructure’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre reports flood watches for the Fisher River and Pipestone Creek due to potential ice jams and a flood warning for the lower Red River as ice jamming is in effect near Selkirk. Water levels are significantly increasing across much of southern Manitoba, particularly on the Red

Dairy cattle, News

Bernier makes supply management an issue

Dairy farmers are taking out Conservative memberships to vote against him

By John Greig March 30, 2017

The future of Canada’s supply management system for milk, eggs and poultry has been thrust onto the national political agenda like never before by leading candidate for the Conservative party leadership, Maxime Bernier. Bernier is calling for the abolition of the system after a new levy on dairy products builds up enough funds to reimburse

The St. Norbert Farmers’ Market has unveiled its plans for a new four-season market structure that will open to the public this spring.

Local news

St. Norbert market gets out of the rain

The popular venue will get a canopy for the summer as  well as a year-round covered area

By Lorraine Stevenson March 30, 2017

St. Norbert Farmers’ Market is going under cover this spring. The third and final phase of an ambitious site renovation at Manitoba’s largest farmers’ market is now nearly complete, with new canopies expected to be on the site in time for opening day, says executive director Marilyn Firth. St. Norbert announced nearly five years ago

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Market realities

By Gord Gilmour March 30, 2017

Over the years people have done some pretty goofy things to make money. Probably the best example is Gary Dahl, the inventor of the hare-brained scheme that was the pet rock. The story goes he was sitting in a bar in Los Angeles with friends in the early 1970s, listening to them complain about their

female scientist pouring liquid in a tube

News

Keeping agriculture research relevant

The Agriculture Institute of Canada wants to make sure research leaves the lab and enters the real world

By Alex Binkley March 29, 2017

The Agriculture Institute of Canada has released a policy on best practices in agriculture research to make sure that knowledge gained in the lab is shared with others in the field and consumers. AIC’s CEO Serge Buy calls the policy a living document that like research itself will be updated with new information to keep

Faculty member Danielle Tichit leads a class on oilseed handling and marketing  at Assiniboine Community College, part of the ACC agribusiness program.

Country Crossroads, Local news

The other ag college: ACC’s growing agribusiness program

ACC’s agribusiness program is so successful that 26 years later there’s a waiting list to get in

By Alexis Stockford March 27, 2017

Amanda Boland’s parents don’t farm, but that didn’t stop agriculture from being a part of her childhood. The daughter of two ag retailers in Melfort, Sask., Boland was exposed early to the industry, eventually joining the workforce at Paragon Ag Services, the same company that employs her parents. She loaded and unloaded fertilizer trucks and

Opinion

Food prices are… falling?

By Owen Roberts March 27, 2017

I stopped in my tracks recently when I heard food prices actually dropped last year. It was nonsensical… how could an essential such as food be going down in price, with the cost of living marching forward? “It’s true,” says Mike Von Massow, a University of Guelph agriculture and food economics researcher. “The price of

Frozen cropland may be a larger source of nitrous oxide emissions than previously understood.

Did you know?, News

Frozen soils might be major emitter

A University of Manitoba study has discovered  the previously overlooked emissions

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 27, 2017

A new study suggests global greenhouse emission calculations have overlooked an important aspect of the agricultural sector. Emissions, especially of the key gas nitrous oxide, may in fact be about 17 to 28 per cent greater for cultivated soils frozen in winter than currently thought. Mario Tenuta, professor in applied soil ecology at the University

Wade Turner of Brandon was this year’s first-place angler, winning $1,000 with his 83.2-cm northern pike.

Local news

PHOTOS: Fishing derby draws crowd

The Rivers Northern Pike Fish Derby saw a good crowd again this year 

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 24, 2017

There were 189 registered contestants in the Rivers and Area Game and Fish Association 10th annual Northern Pike Fish Derby on Mar. 10 on Lake Wahtopanah. A total of 37 fish were caught during the five-hour derby. This year’s winner was Wade Turner of Brandon, hooking an 83.2-cm pike. Proceeds from the event are used

Livestock producers say they’re losing more animals to wolves and the requirement for evidence for compensation is hard to fulfil.

Beef cattle, Local news

Beef producers seeing more wolf kills

Wolf predation is a growing concern among producers, says association president

By Lorraine Stevenson March 24, 2017

A decade ago spotting a wolf was rare in this part of Manitoba’s Interlake. But the one Robert Green shot last fall wasn’t skulking through the bush around their Fisher Branch-area cow-calf operation. The animal had come right into their farmyard. It’s not the only close encounter the Greens have had with wolves lately either.

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Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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