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Drone regulations coming
Crops, News

Drone regulations coming

Farmers will need an operating permit

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Farmers and other commercial users of drones should begin now to secure the required Transport Canada authorization for operating the unmanned air vehicles they use for scouting fields, crops and livestock. Drone licensing has become a hot ticket item in recent months because of the growing recreational interest in flying the units, said Natasha Gauthier,
Solid gains by cattle sector
Beef cattle, News

Solid gains by cattle sector

Canadian beef producers are producing more beef on less land with 
fewer animals, all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions

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Efforts to reduce the Canadian beef industry’s environmental footprint are paying off, new research shows. “Improved production and feed efficiencies, crop yields and management strategies have led to reduced emissions in Canadian beef production,” said Tim McAlister, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and principal investigator of the research study. “And, compared to
Matthew Reimer, president of Reimer Robotics and first prize winner in the Inventors' Showcase at Manitoba Ag Days.
Local news

VIDEO: Driverless tractors and open-source software

Reimer Robotics takes first prize in Manitoba Ag Days Inventors' Showcase

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Matthew Reimer was as surprised as anyone today when he was awarded first prize for his driverless tractor system at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon, but his invention is worthy of the title. The Inventors’ Showcase winner, and president of Reimer Robotics, has built a system to move tractors – driverless no less, with grain cart
Report on wild food industry suggests the need for a co-operative
Crops, Local news

Report on wild food industry suggests the need for a co-operative

The Woodlot Association of Manitoba recently investigated the potential to develop a 
wild food industry in the province’s 2.4 million acres of privately owned wooded land

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The Woodlot Association of Manitoba (WAM) says the province’s privately owned forests are a cornucopia of foods if entrepreneurs are willing to take a walk on the wild side. Following a number of interviews and public meetings, WAM has prepared a report that sees a bright future for wild food foraging and farming, in short,
There's lots to see and do at Manitoba Ag Days, so put on a pair of comfy shoes and come on down.
Local news

LIVE BLOG: Manitoba Ag Days

Event begins Tuesday, Jan. 19 and ends on Thursday, Jan. 21

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The city of Brandon rolls out the welcome mat for producers and the public for this year’s Manitoba Ag Days, running Tuesday, Jan. 19 to Thursday, Jan. 21. Visit the Ag Days 2016 live blog page here! For three days, a wide variety of speakers and some of the latest in agricultural equipment and technology will
Woman in supermarket shopping groceries
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Canadians will pay more for food in 2016, U of G report says

Major trends influencing food purchases will include quest 
for non-meat proteins, demand for supply chain transparency and ongoing concern about animal welfare

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A new report from the University of Guelph’s Food Institute predicts consumers will pay an additional $345 on their food bill this year. That’s an increase over the $325 additionally paid for food in 2015 when a low Canadian dollar saw price increases for many food products, but especially meats, fruits, nuts and vegetables, the
"This is leaps and bounds for us. It's a huge step to growing our business." – Lisa Dyck
Dairy cattle, Local news

Manitoba ice-cream maker to share facilities at Notre Dame Creamery

Dairy farmer turned ice-cream maker 
Lisa Dyck has produced her gourmet 
ice cream at the University of Manitoba’s Dairy Pilot plant until now

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Manitoba’s first on-farm milk producer turned food processor is making a big move as 2016 begins. Lisa Dyck, who launched Cornell Creme gourmet ice cream made from milk from her family’s Anola-area farm’s 120-cow dairy herd in 2013 is moving her production to the Notre Dame Creamery. She’s made her popular line of ice-cream flavours
A polar bear sculpture made of ice stands outside the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen at the facility’s opening in February 2008. The vault has been built in a mountainside cavern on Spitsbergen Island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole to store the world’s crop seeds in case of disaster.
Did you know?, News

Doomsday Arctic seed vault to receive two deposits in 2016

The vault built to protect the world's seed supplied is built into the side of a Norwegian mountain

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Two new consignments of crop seeds will be deposited this year in the “doomsday vault” built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global supplies. The vault — which opened on the Svalbard archipelago between Norway and the North Pole in 2008 — is designed to protect crop seeds such as beans, rice and wheat against
Dr. Bill Ashton, director of Brandon University’s Rural Development Institute has been leading a number 
of research projects geared towards strengthening resources for rural innovators.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Research study examines the path of rural innovations

A Brandon research centre believes rural Manitoba contains a wealth of innovation ideas and hopes to create new support services to help residents get their ideas to market

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Rural entrepreneurs face steep hurdles bringing their innovations to market, but the province is well endowed with people willing to put their ideas to the test, researchers with Brandon’s Rural Development Institute have found. The institute recently partnered with eight Manitoba bulk food-processing companies to analyze sector activity and growth opportunities. “This study itself builds
The farm safety area has been relocated to the Pioneer Lounge at the top of the ramp in the Keystone Centre.
Local news

Farm Safety Area gets expanded quarters

Visitors can enter contest to win safety items

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Agriculture is one of the top three most hazardous industries in which to work. According to the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, while 85 per cent of Canadian producers believe safety is a priority on their farm, less than 10 per cent currently have a safety plan on their farm or ranch. “Manitoba Ag Days takes

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