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Farm building code streamlined

The provincial government says the move is part of its red tape reduction initiative

By Ron Friesen February 7, 2017

The Manitoba government has begun a new anti-red tape initiative by streamlining the provincial building code for farm structures. The Manitoba Farm Building Code will be repealed and dovetailed into the Manitoba Building Code, with specific provisions for farm buildings. It’s the first action in a government campaign to eliminate or simplify regulatory requirements that

Hogs, News

Old is new in hog barn approvals

Public opposition has not gone away after a decade of no development

By Ron Friesen January 5, 2017

The first application under a new protocol for approving hog barns in Manitoba has run into an old problem: local opposition. The Rural Municipality of Oakview council last month turned down an application for a 6,000-space feeder/finish operation near Rivers even though a technical review committee report said it met the necessary requirements. Council gave

Retired East St. Paul businessman John Ness builds replica barns and children’s toy barns as a hobby. The octagonal barn is a replica of a rare eight-sided barn still standing near Bethany, Manitoba.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Whimsical replicas bring out the kid in all of us, says hobby builder

East St. Paul retiree John Ness’s interest in tiny barn replicas began with a toy barn he built for his grandson

By Lorraine Stevenson May 4, 2016

You don’t need to be a farmer to appreciate a well-built barn. Just ask retired East St. Paul businessman John Ness, or the curious visitors drawn to his replicas on display at farm toy shows. Ness’s display includes tiny toy barns kids love to play with, and replicas that the bigger ‘kids’ who flock to

General manager of Brandon’s Keystone Centre, Neil Thomson, says the proposed addition is a matter of when, not if.

Crops, Livestock, Local news

Keystone Centre proposes barn addition

General manager of Brandon’s Keystone Centre says the facility is looking to acquire  funding for addition of a multi-purpose field house and barn

By Jennifer Paige October 6, 2015

Brandon’s Keystone Centre is ready to begin construction on a 130,000-square-foot addition as soon as it lines up enough funds. “Manitoba Ag Days basically takes every square inch of the building that we have now and it also has a waiting list of exhibitors. We would like to be able to accommodate that,” said Keystone

two women standing with decorative tractor quilt

Country Crossroads

Let’s cover rural Manitoba with ‘barn quilts,’ say Ag Museum staff

Inspired by other barn quilt trails of southern Ontario and Iowa, staff with the Manitoba Agricultural Museum at Austin hung out their own barn quilt on Mother’s Day and are working with other communities to piece together a map of where more will eventually be found

By Lorraine Stevenson May 22, 2015

Eunice and Doug Pratt were heading south through Iowa for a U.S. holiday when they spotted the first ‘barn quilt’ — a brilliant-coloured quilt block affixed to the front of a barn. But it wasn’t made with fabric. It was a large, colourful wooden eight-foot-square painted replica of a quilt block, and one of many

News

Co-operator barn series revival

Do you know this barn?

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 10, 2014

If you do, a Manitoban historian wants to hear from you. In early 1981 the Co-operator worked with provincial Manitoba Historic Resources Branch staff to photograph and publish a series on rural buildings in Manitoba. Each week a photo and a story was published about why each of the buildings were rare or unusual. Now

Country Crossroads

Found it!

By Lorraine Stevenson July 2, 2014

This sturdy 88×30-foot specimen is one example of a barn from the 1980s series that Goldsborough was able to find. It stands in excellent condition, almost as straight and true as when it was constructed in 1927 for Jean Comte of the Notre Dame de Lourdes area. Sitting on two-foot-thick limestone walls, the barn is now

Blayne Wyton is the founder of the Morden-based company, Prairie Barnwood, a new Manitoba company producing high-end design furniture from salvaged Manitoba barns. photo: lorraine stevenson

Country Crossroads

Buildings tomorrow’s heirlooms — with yesterday’s wood

By Lorraine Stevenson September 19, 2013

Many see beauty in something old, faded and worn — but few can find uses for it. Blayne Wyton does both. His four-year-old company, Morden-based Prairie Barnwood, does a brisk business handcrafting fine furniture from boards, beans and posts salvaged from old barns in the Pembina Valley. The idea came to him during a road

Forages, News, Opinion, Our History

Anderson barn, RM of Elton

By Ed Ledohowski February 16, 2012

The Anderson barn is a rare and superbly preserved example of a classic southern Ontario-style bank barn, scores of which were constructed across southwestern Manitoba during the late 19th century by settlers from Ontario. Telltale design features include tall, rectangular massing with a steep gable roof; post-and-beam framing; vertical board-and-batten siding; diamond-shaped loft windows; fieldstone

Hogs, Livestock

Barn Fires A Continued Problem In Manitoba

By Natasha Tersigni January 20, 2011

There were 37 barn fires in Manitoba last year resulting in more than 7,600 animal deaths and $26.7 million in damages, statistics released by the provincial Fire Commissioner’s Office show. No human lives were lost. However, animals lost their lives in 15 of the 37 barn fires, including 6,600 hogs and 900 dairy cows. The

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Farm building code streamlined

Old is new in hog barn approvals

Whimsical replicas bring out the kid in all of us, says hobby builder

Keystone Centre proposes barn addition

Let’s cover rural Manitoba with ‘barn quilts,’ say Ag Museum staff

Co-operator barn series revival

Found it!

Buildings tomorrow’s heirlooms — with yesterday’s wood

Anderson barn, RM of Elton

Barn Fires A Continued Problem In Manitoba

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