Abuse on farm hard to escape

The Manitoba government has offered up $100,000 to help employers recognize the signs of domestic abuse in their employees. But what happens when the employer is the victim’s husband or partner? Farm women or women in remote rural areas are unlikely to benefit, and their isolation makes them vulnerable. “We do know statistically that domestic


U. K. producers have success with batch farrowing

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. A recent survey by U. K. pharmaceutical company Janssen Animal Health suggests that more than half of producers in the country farrow batches of sows every

Thoughts on Remembrance Day – for Nov. 6, 2008

Wars are raging in the world. Even during Bible times many wars were fought. November 11 is a day filled with special memories for me. I can still see the tanks rolling into the little town where we stayed, escaping the hunger in the big city. The Canadian soldiers came and set us free from