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Grunthal artisan Karen Enns stands with items of clothing she made at the One Year One Outfit exhibit on February 25.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

VIDEO: One Year One Outfit Challenge connects people to land, textiles, each other

Knitters, sewers, weavers could only use locally grown materials to construct clothing

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A lamb is born prematurely on a Manitoba sheep farm. It weighs only a pound. To survive, the lamb will need round-the-clock care — more care than the farmer has bandwidth to give, so a woman named Nicole takes the tiny critter home. She and her son put a diaper on the lamb and take
Buildings aflame after a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv, second-largest city in Ukraine, March 2, 2022.
News, Other

Foodgrains Bank joins Ukraine appeal

A partnership of humanitarian groups is fundraising to prevent war-driven crisis

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Canadian Foodgrains Bank is joining forces with other Canadian humanitarian groups to raise funds for Ukraine. Andy Harrington, executive director of Canadian Foodgrains Bank, says it’s a known fact that conflict is one of the leading causes of global hunger. “Access to food, both for those in Ukraine and for those being displaced by the
Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: On rent-seeking

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If you’ve already read Allan Dawson’s story featured on the front page of our Mar. 10 issue of the Co-operator, there’s a fairly high likelihood you’re feeling a bit sour. In it he details the work done by agricultural economist Ryan Cardwell on the topic of ‘rent-seeking’ behaviour generally, and how farmers are particularly good
The strong farm lobby has — believe it or not — resulted in very pro-farm government programming.
News, Other

Beware of ‘rent seekers’ and unintended consequences in farm policy

Ryan Cardwell, this year’s Kraft Lecturer, says government needs to have clear goals

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Agriculture policy-makers need to be aware of ‘rent seekers,’ unintended consequences and the pitfalls of shoehorning more than one objective into a single policy. University of Manitoba agricultural economist Ryan Cardwell delivered that message online February 9 during the 12th annual Kraft Lecture (watch the full lecture on YouTube), named for the late Daryl Kraft,
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
Other, Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: Weather pattern remaining the same

Forecast issued Mar. 3, covering the period from Mar. 9 to Mar. 16, 2022

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Last week’s forecast played out pretty close to what the weather models were predicting. We did see a little snow from the possible Colorado low, but the low mostly stayed to our south and did not get as strong as it could have. We also saw a return of cold arctic air by the end
Should farmers be pleased that land prices appear to have room to rise or should they be pleased that today’s rocketing land prices might be running out of fuel?
Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: Up, down or sideways??

Farmland values picture becomes unclear when you delve into the numbers

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It’s the choices we make in the good times, the grandson of a Kansas homesteader once told me, that determine our farming successes, not the choices we make in the bad times. Why? Because, he explained, in the good times we have the money to make big mistakes and in the bad times we’re too
Sandra Duchak has volunteered with the Gainsborough 4-H club for 42 years.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Portage la Prairie 4-H leader recognized for 42 years’ service

Faces of Ag: Sandra Duchak chipped in to keep her kids’ club afloat. Decades later, she’s still finding joy in helping kids find their voice, confidence

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The adage is the average person is more afraid of public speaking than death. Sandra Duchak was no exception when she started volunteering with the Gainsborough 4-H club 42 years ago. Before long all four of her kids were in the club, and all of them had communications projects to do. She had to up
Smoke rises from a wildfire over a hill at Kamloops, B.C. on July 1, 2021, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.
News, Other, Weather

‘Catastrophic’ wildfire risk is growing. Here’s how to cut it

Right now governments are stamping out flames, not preventing them

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Thomson Reuters Foundation – The risk of catastrophic wildfires is growing around the world as climate change fuels sizzling, tinder-dry conditions, increasing the need for fire-prone countries to adopt preventive measures, scientists warned Wednesday. Smart, proactive policies — such as setting fires at the end of rainy periods to reduce blazes during hot, dry spells
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
Other, Weather, Weather Vane

Weather school: Wind, and why we have it, Part 2

Coriolis and friction keep our air from moving on a straight southbound line

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Last week we introduced the four main forces that drive our winds; gravity, air pressure, Coriolis and friction. This week we will go into a little more detail on these forces and hopefully come to a better understanding of just what creates wind. If you remember in Part 1 of this article, we discussed that
News, Other

Extreme wildfires are here to stay — and multiply

From Canada to Argentina and beyond, two new reports warn of fiery global future

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Reuters – Indonesia’s peatlands, Canada’s forests, and, now, vast swathes of Argentine wetland have all been ravaged by extreme wildfires, heralding a fiery future and the dire need to prevent it. With climate change triggering droughts and farmers clearing forests, the number of extreme wildfires is expected to increase 30 per cent within the next

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