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More CFGB Growing Projects Than Ever

By Natasha Tersigni April 7, 2011

Even with fields still covered in snow, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) already has over 30 projects totalling 4,500 acres planned for the 2011 growing season in Manitoba. This is up from last year’s numbers, and CFGB is still looking for more acres and volunteers. “We’ll be working on getting more acres right up to

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Mar. 24, 2011

By Reuters March 24, 2011

Farmer to Farmer:The Grain Growers of Canada has donated $1,000 to help Japanese farmers cope with the after-effects of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. “Farmers in Canada have a long history of helping their neighbours in times of trouble and in this case our neighbours are global,” said executive director Richard Phillips, noting Japan

Hogs, News

In Brief… – for Mar. 10, 2011

By Reuters March 10, 2011

Cash for clunkers:Russia will spend an extra four billion rubles from this year’s budget to subsidize farm equipment leasing and may look into a “cash for clunkers” scheme to boost tractor purchases, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. “I hope it will help reap a good harvest and stabilize the situation with food prices,” he told

Crops

U.S. Ethanol Policy Roundly Criticized

March 10, 2011

If the United States reduced the amount of corn required for its ethanol requirements by just one per cent, it would double Zimbabwe’s entire annual corn consumption and save American taxpayers $50 million a year. Bill Lapp, a U.S. market analyst, tossed those statistics out at the annual GrainWorld conference in Winnipeg last week to

News

Project Helps Keep Farmers On Their Land

By Natasha Tersigni February 24, 2011

As investors around the world rush to claim farmland in the wartorn, politically unstable country of Sudan, a Minnedosa man is working on a project that helps the Sudanese people farm it themselves. In the process, Ray Baloun is connecting people across Canada who share an interest in farming. Baloun, who works as a grain

Crops

Growing Projects’ Harvests Now Complete For CFGB

By Lorraine Stevenson October 28, 2010

All harvests for Growing Projects in support of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank are now in the bins, with the last of this year’s projects wrapping up Oct. 9 near Thornhill. This fall’s extended warm weather saw a flurry of activity earlier this month, with farmers finding time in the midst of their own harvests to

Country Crossroads

People Must Control Food System, Meeting Told

By Ron Friesen October 21, 2010

For Racquel Koenig, it’s homegrown vegetables in northern Manitoba, where a bag of potatoes costs three to four times as much as it does in Winnipeg. For Terence Sibanda, it’s seed for farmers in Zimbabwe to grow their own crops instead of relying on food aid. Food justice means different things to different people, as

Opinion

Celebrating Canada

By Laura Rance-Unger July 1, 2010

Canadians are masters of understatement when it comes to celebrating our national pride. Whereas our neighbours to the south belt out the Star Spangled Banner at every opportunity, the national anthem at Canadian events is usually performed, rather than participated in. Everyone but the singer stands awkwardly at attention, some of us humming and only

Country Crossroads

Sowing Seeds Of Hope For The World’s Hungry

By Kim Langen May 20, 2010

“It’s just a Christian response to meet the needs of the hungry.” BARRY REIMER, CO-CHAIR AND FARMER WI TH THE KILLARNEY GROWI NG PROJECT, WHO SOWED THE SECOND HALF OF A 120-ACRE FIELD EARMARKED FOR THE CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK. The conditions couldn’t be better,” said Dale Balour, who wanted things to go perfectly on Monday,

News

In Briefs continued from page

February 11, 2010

Helping Haiti: The federal government’s dollar-for-dollar aid-matching offer for those donating to Haiti relief through an approved charity ends Feb. 12. Donations to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank can be done online at: http://www.foodgrainsbank.ca/. In order to make a credit card donation, follow the link to: Donate to Haiti Response. Harold Penner, the CFGB’s Manitoba resource

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