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CP Rail says it’s ready to move this year’s expected bumper crop.
Crops, News

CP Rail raring to move expected bumper crop

A company executive says the grain-handling and transportation system learned lessons from the 2013-14 shipping backlog

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Canadian Pacific Railway is ready to move Western Canada’s bumper 2016 crop, but is disappointed surplus system capacity isn’t being used now. “We have been idle in terms of cars in service really since about May,” John Brooks, CP’s vice-president of sales and marketing for intermodal and grain said in an interview Aug. 11. “So
Stan Cochrane is the chair of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba, 
which is restoring the Dominion Exhibition Building.
Local news

Reviving a symbol of Canada’s agricultural past

Built in 1912, the Dominion Exhibition Building No. II is being 
refurbished to resume its place as a host for community events

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Once a hub of agricultural activity, in recent years Brandon’s Dominion Exhibition Building No. II has been left idle and close to disrepair. Fearing loss of the valued landmark, in 2009 the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba took on the challenge of restoring the building to its former glory. “As both an organization and a community
Intermediate wheatgrass is the skinny cousin to spring wheat but, of course, you can’t graze the latter and then harvest a grain crop later.
Cereals, News

Perennial grain: It’s two crops in one

It’s been a decades’ long search, but researchers believe the finish line is in sight 
for a crop that can be both grazed and then harvested for its grain

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As concerns grow over sustainability in modern farming, researchers are looking to the past in search of crops that can both meet the needs of farmers and consumers as well as the environment. Thinopyrum intermedium — commonly known as intermediate wheatgrass — is one of the fruits of that research. It’s been nearly three decades
Layer hen rules fuelling scrutiny
News, Poultry

Layer hen rules fuelling scrutiny

The National Farm Animal Care Council is the focus of a recent freedom of information request

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The organization leading Canada’s development of humane livestock production is under the activist microscope. The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) was recently the focus of a request under the freedom of information legislation. The group says it suspects the move is related to its connection to guidelines for layer hens. The request relates to
Ernie Braun (l) and Glen Klassen have done everything except the printing for their full-colour book, now in its third printing.
Country Crossroads, Local news

New atlas documents Mennonite history

Two amateur historians pull together a comprehensive 
record of their communities in the East Reserve

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When Ernie Braun was a kid growing up near Steinbach, people often drew their identities from the local villages where they were raised. So-and-so lived just east of Schonsee. Another person came from Alt-Bergfeld. Braun himself was from Friedrichsthal. The individual identities of Mennonites were inextricably tied to the places they came from. Braun, a
Country Crossroads, Local news

Bringing all of Manitoba’s local histories together

Manitoba Historical Society wants to digitize them to make them widely available and searchable

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The Historical Atlas of the East Reserve is the latest addition to a surprisingly large body of local Manitoba history books. The Manitoba Historical Society website lists over 500 local histories, arranged alphabetically by municipality. Those are the ones MHS knows about. The society believes there may be 1,200 such books out there altogether. Many
Weldon Newton, Neepawa
. 1947 –
Local news

Agricultural Hall of Fame: Weldon Newton

Four Manitobans were inducted into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Portage la Prairie July 14. Over the next few weeks, we’re featuring each one with their citations

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After being raised on the family farm, Weldon Newton attended the University of Manitoba where he obtained his degree in agriculture majoring in soil science. Weldon and his brother Murray took over the farm, a farrow-to-finish hog operation as well as a grain operation growing cereal grains, canola, pulse crops and forage seed, in 1984
Local news

Manitoba 4-H gains greater autonomy

The organization is taking over many responsibilities from the provincial Agriculture Department

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The Manitoba 4-H Council is taking on a raft of new responsibilities Sept. 1. It’ll be assuming responsi­bility for club, member and leader support, 4-H Area Coun­cil program support, member and leader records and volunteer screening, taking over from Manitoba Agriculture, something the organization describes as an exciting evolution. “It’s terrific that Manitoba 4-H Council
Residents wait to fill their containers with water in a field in Latur, India, April 17, 2016.
International news

Trafficking risk rises as villagers flee India’s worst drought in decades

A flood of migrants from rural India are searching for water, food and jobs as they flee arid conditions

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A mass migration of tens of thousands of people from rural India, sparked by the worst drought in decades, is fuelling concerns they may be trafficked or exploited. The migrants are searching for water, food, jobs and other basics of life, activists say. About 330 million people, almost a quarter of the country’s population, are
The Brandon Research and Development Centre held a field tour of its oats and wheat trials on August 3.
Crops, Local news

Local testing of cereal varieties key to determining productivity

Researchers at the Brandon Research and Development Centre are committed 
to testing varieties under local conditions

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On paper that new wheat or barley variety looks like a winner — but how’s it actually going to perform under real-life conditions? That’s the question federal and provincial crop researchers working at the Brandon Research and Development Centre (BRDC) are hoping to contribute to with a host of ongoing variety trials at their 2,500-acre

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