AAFC’s plan to tear down an over-century-old barn at the Brandon Research Station is generating push-back
Good things happen when farmers take field research into commercial farms
AC Metcalfe was a huge hit with farmers, maltsters and brewers and one of his best-known career achievements
Sixteen of the 36 cultivars reviewed were automatically endorsed
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Farmers question the federal government’s commitment to publicly funded agricultural research
by Allan Dawson Almost 700 Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC) employees across Canada, including 55 in Manitoba, have been notified their jobs are on the line. Their unions say the notifications are part of a plan to eliminate an estimated 400 jobs as the federal government tries to cut spending. The Brandon Research Station’s beef researchThey’re slow workers, but spurge-eating beetles can have a big impact on infested pastures and hay land
Having found a beetle with a taste for leafy spurge, researchers are now trying to figure out how to get the insects to gobble up more of the noxious, invasive weed. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researchers from Brandon Research Centre are in the final year of a three-year study of beetles chowing down on leafy
