Time To Pack It In?

Word was barely out that the federal government was withdrawing $10 million in financing for Keystone Processors Ltd. beef-slaughter facility last week and Manitoba Beef Producers was calling for an end to the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council. The association that is the voice of Manitoba beef producers, and which is supported by its own voluntary


Recipe Swap – for Jul. 21, 2011

You may recall seeing an invitation on these pages this spring to send us a “fruity story.” We received loads of wonderful short stories from you about your berry-picking experiences and adventures and thank you all for writing to us. Notably, every story we received was handwritten and all are about adventures out picking wild

Canadian Beef Expected To Re-Enter South Korea Soon

The head of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association hopes Canadian beef exports to South Korea will resume later this year, following an agreement between the two countries to resume trade after an eight-year hiatus. Travis Toews called the agreement significant because South Korea was once Canada’s fourth-largest beef customer until 2003, when the discovery of BSE


Recipe Swap – for Jul. 7, 2011

In this place it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” So said the Red Queen to Alice in Lewis Carroll’sThrough The Looking Glassas Alice made her way across the patchwork fields, “a great huge game of chess that’s being played – all over the world.” It was pure

Beef Sales To South Korea Could Resume

Canada and South Korea moved closer to a deal that would partially restore Canadian beef access and end South Korea’s eight year-old ban, Canada’s agriculture and trade ministers said June 29. South Korea is the last major beef-importing country to agree to lower its restrictions on Canadian beef since a 2003 outbreak of mad-cow disease



Recipe Swap – for Jun. 9, 2011

As I put these recipes together last week we were enduring yet another punishing rainstorm and comfort food seemed the order of the day. Here’s a couple of “rainy day” recipes in dreaded anticipation we may not yet be through with wet weather. Nonetheless, I hope on the day you read this it’s warmed up


High Prices May Push Bacon Off Menus

The recent royal wedding celebrations at London’s Buckingham Palace featured bacon sandwiches on the menu for the morning after the night before. The fact that bacon featured so prominently alongside other delicacies in such revered surroundings is quite fitting given that bacon prices are closing in on all-time highs and look set to continue pressing

The Big Chill

Barbecues are sitting idle across the U.S. as unseasonably cold, damp weather keeps people cooking indoors. “We are not going to invest in good steaks just to cook them on top of the stove,” Mary Jane Kasper of suburban Chicago said. That attitude has been typical this spring as cookouts have been rained out from