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Time has come to stop always

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Nicole Blyth is involved. The vivacious farm girl from MacGregor has volunteered with community groups and at school, and jumped at just about every 4-H leadership opportunity that’s come her way. Volunteering is a way to meet people, have fun, and learn new things, says Blyth, a Brandon University student planning to focus on rural
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Brandon Research Centre Celebrates 125th

Back in 1886, farmers around here were suffering from drought, Prairie fires were a problem and frost had damaged wheat the fall before. But there was good news too: Brandon was getting an experimental farm – one of five to be built across the country after the Experimental Farm Station Act received Royal Assent June
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Agricultural Hall Of Fame – for Aug. 4, 2011

Keith Smith was born and raised on a farm in the Oak Lake area of Manitoba. Following high school, Keith attended the University of Manitoba from which he graduated with a B. Sc. in agriculture in 1955. Three years later, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an M. Sc. in Extension Education. In
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Valuable Life Lessons Learned

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Leading Team Manitoba to the 62nd Annual National High School Finals Rodeo, as Miss Manitoba, last summer was an awesome experience for Brittany Marshall of Minnedosa. And while the “queen” experience was a once-in-a lifetime opportunity, Marshall has goals to make a return engagement to Gillette, Wyoming this summer as a competitor from a different
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New Rural Economic Champs Appointed

The province has named 12 people to its Champions of the New Rural Economy program, designed to put rural innovators into contact with key business, community and government leaders, Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers announced at the Capturing Opportunities conference in Brandon. “It is my pleasure to recognize and announce these successful and energetic entrepreneurs who
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BU President Addresses MWI Convention

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Rural Manitobans wasted no time making a critical educat ional need known to Deborah Poff after she became Brandon University’s new president in 2009: this province desperately needs doctors committed to living and working in a rural practice. She’s been there. Poff was vice-president of academics at the University of Northern British Columbia when it
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Everything That Slithers, Hops, Flies And Flowers Gets Counted

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Volunteers are the backbone of all successful conservation agencies and the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is a good example, as demonstrated during a conservation volunteer (CV) event held at the Yellow Quill Prairie Preserve. “They counted and identified everything that slithered, hopped, burrowed, flew or flowered,” said Cathy Shaluk, communications and outreach co-ordinator for
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Photography Just One Of Various Talents

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Alyssa Krahn, a young woman who has grown up on the family farm near Rivers, Manitoba has a unique eye for capturing life with her camera. At the Annual Art and Photography Show at Prairie Crocus Regional Library in Rivers, she had her photography on display and it brought many comments from attendees saying that
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Leafy Spurge Losses Continue To Mount In Manitoba

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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
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New Blood Needed, Not Just In Rural Areas

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If present demographic trends continue, it won’t be just rural areas emptying out. In fact, by 2030, the population of Canada overall will begin shrinking, as deaths outnumber births, according to Ray Bollman, a statistician from the Agriculture Division of Statistics Canada. “Why are we worried about immigration? If there’s no immigration, there will be

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