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Clock Ticking On Open Sow Housing Decisions

By Ron Friesen December 16, 2010

Awatershed in sow housing is coming to Manitoba in the next five years and pork producers are unprepared, says a University of Manitoba swine specialist. Many hog barns will soon have to retool their aging equipment, including gestation stalls, said Laurie Connor, who heads the University of Manitoba’s animal science department. Producers need to decide

Country Crossroads

Gather Up The Cones And Make A Wreath

By Dana Ramstedt December 16, 2010

Nature walks supply us with healthy exercise and many craft materials. If you have a supply of pine cones, why not display them in a wreath? Working on your own or with young people, the cardboard base makes it much easier to assemble. Materials: An assortment of pine cones Glue gun 8-or 10-inch shaped wire

Forages, Livestock

Purple Prairie Pasture Enhancer Being Studied

By Daniel Winters December 9, 2010

Old is new again. A native forb species once common on the Prairies is being studied as a cure for tired pastures and as a livestock feed with beneficial and unusual attributes. Purple prairie clover is a palatable legume that can be grazed at various stages of maturity. Sporting a purple, cone-shaped flower, the warm-season,

News

Leafy Spurge Losses Continue To Mount In Manitoba

By Ron Friesen December 9, 2010

More than 10 years after it was identified as a major weed pest in Manitoba, leafy spurge is now a much worse problem than ever. A new survey says leafy spurge infests over three times as many acres and produces twice as much financial damage as it did in 1999, when the last survey was

Hogs, Livestock, News

Stall-Free Petition Tops 10,000 Signatures

By Ron Friesen December 2, 2010

Bill McDonald hauled a garbage bag half full of paper into the deputy agriculture minister’s office last week to press his case against sow gestation stalls in Manitoba. The bag contained petitions carrying over 10,000 signatures demanding the province pass laws to eliminate the stalls. “We thought it was significant to show the government physically

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Flying For 79 Floors

By Alan Guebert December 2, 2010

Twice a week,New York Timescolumnist Thomas L. Friedman drives political and economic policy-makers into full rant on topics as opposite as global free trade (he loves it) and national industrial policy (he loves it, too). Kiss him or kick him, Friedman can turn a phrase. A current Friedmanism notes that “If you jump off the

Beef cattle, Livestock

Sales Expected To Turn Down Towards Christmas

By MarketsFarm Team December 2, 2010

Ca t t l e cont inued to be sold at a steady pace at Manitoba auction marts during the week ending November 26, despite a snowstorm that dropped in the neighbourhood of 15 centimetres in many parts of the province. Robin Hill, manager of Heartland Livestock Services in Virden, said volume was close to

Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto Committed To Canola

By Allan Dawson December 2, 2010

Derek Penner was an infant when canola, a healthier derivative of rapeseed, was first developed in 1974 at the University of Manitoba in collaboration with Agriculture Canada. Last week, the youthful president of Monsanto Canada helped open Monsanto’s new $12-million canola-breeding centre at the U of M’s Smartpark. “It embodies Monsanto’s very best in research

Livestock

Maple Leaf Foods To Close Nova Scotia Meat Plant

December 2, 2010

Maple Leaf Foods, one of Canada’s leading food processors, said Nov. 17 that it will close its pork plant in Berwick, Nova Scotia, at the end of April. The plant closure is the first since Maple Leaf announced in October that it plans to boost earnings by closing some plants and spending heavily to modernize

Country Crossroads

’Tis The Season For Holiday Plants

By Patricia Futros December 2, 2010

Flowering plants are one of the easiest and prettiest ways of dressing up your home for the holiday season. These should be available at florists, stores and greenhouses and will add a cheerful and festive air to any room. As its name implies, this easy-to-care-for succulent bursts into bloom just as Christmas nears. Growing to

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

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Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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