Soggy Weekend Adds Up

TABLE 1. RAINFALL FROM 6 A. M. FRIDAY TO 6 A. M. SATURDAY LOCATION Winnipeg Emerson PortagelaPrairie 91.4mm Pinawa Brandon Carberry Great Falls DeltaMarsh 33.8mm McCreary Wasagaming 27.2mm Melita Carman Cypress River Gimli Oak Point Roblin Dauphin FisherBranch 15.5mm Sprague Deerwood Pilot Mound Morden RAINFALL (mm) 95.0 mm 110.4 mm 87.8 mm 63.0 mm 46.4

Sowing Seeds Of Hope For The World’s Hungry

“It’s just a Christian response to meet the needs of the hungry.” BARRY REIMER, CO-CHAIR AND FARMER WI TH THE KILLARNEY GROWI NG PROJECT, WHO SOWED THE SECOND HALF OF A 120-ACRE FIELD EARMARKED FOR THE CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK. The conditions couldn’t be better,” said Dale Balour, who wanted things to go perfectly on Monday,


Tractors Moving Faster In Brazil With Cheap Loans

Farm machinery sales in Brazil should recover in 2010 from a crisis-driven slump, as producers take advantage of state-subsidized loans to renew equipment or mechanize for the first time. The government of the South American agricultural powerhouse introduced subsidized loans for the purchase of machines like tractors and harvesters in an effort to staunch an

Funds To Help Flooded Interlake Farmers

Farmers adversely affected by flooding in the Interlake over the past two years will receive more than $2.5 million from the federal-provincial AgriRecovery program to help them get started this spring, a joint Canada-Manitoba release says. Crop producers in the rural municipalities of Grahamdale, Siglunes, Eriksdale, Fisher, Bifrost, Coldwell, Armstrong, Gimli, and St. Laurent, the


In Brief… – for Apr. 1, 2010

Fraud alert: An R. M. of De Salaberry man selling a vehicle was hoodwinked out of $1,500 by an overseas scam artist who sent a money-gram for more than the purchase price and requested a refund for the difference. Although the vendor waited until the payment had cleared the bank before complying, it was later

Agriculture Can Meet Long-Term Food Demand

Agriculture has the scope to meet soaring global demand for food by exploiting potential for higher yields and expanded farmland in certain regions, a Societe Generale analyst told Reuters March 18. Achieving large gains in farm output would however take several years and this time lag could bring renewed tensions in food supply in the


Pork Woes First On Agriculture Committee Menu

The first hearing of the Commons agriculture committee in the new session of Parliament was on a familiar topic – the financial hemorrhaging in the pork industry. For Jurgen Preugschas, president of the Canadian Pork Council and Jim Laws, executive director of the Canadian Meat Council, it was another opportunity to reiterate the problems facing

Winter Cereals Manitoba Focused On Research

Winter Cereals Manitoba (WCM) has money in the bank and the farmer-funded organization knows exactly where it’s going: research. Two projects are already planned, but WCM chair and Birtle-area farmer Garth Butcher told the organization’s annual meeting here March 10 he wants to hear members’ priorities. WCM collected 50 cents a tonne from around 2,000


How Fraudproof Are You?

Give yourself 2 points for every right answer: 1.c) 2.b) 3.a) 4.b) 5.c) 6.a) 7.c) 8.c) 9.a) 10.b) 11.c) 12.c) If you scored 20 to 24: You run a tight ship – your information is pretty safe. If you scored 14 to 18: You know the basics, but there is more you can do to