Thanks For The Cookbooks

RECIPE SWAP When we put out a call for community cookbooks this winter, we were confident we’d hear from some of you – and you delivered! Health centres, church groups, festival organizers, community park stewards, 4-H clubs, women’s groups, homecoming committees, dance groups and ag societies – cookbooks came from all of these and more.


Canadian Block Cheese

RECIPE SWAP Thanks to all our readers who continue to share recipes and respond to reader requests for recipes. Watch this section for more recipe swaps and another cookbook feature next week. 125-g pkg. cream cheese 1-1/2 c. Kraft old cheddar cheese, finely grated 4 tbsp. maple syrup, divided 1/2 c. toasted pecans, finely chopped

Canola Sector Poised For Continued Growth

With new crushing capacity, millions of dollars for export market outreach, new research funding and facilities, and more, Canada’s canola industry is poised for a decade of significant growth, said JoAnne Buth, president at Canola Council of Canada’s 43rd annual convention in San Francisco. “In 2009, it was clear that the canola industry’s success to


Healthy Eating Starts With Healthy Food Choices

RECIPE SWAP This spring the Manitoba Canola Growers have joined forces with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba to produce Quick and Healthy Recipes: Volume 3, a new recipe book containing 15 heart-healthy recipes that promote eating less fat, especially saturated and trans fat, and reducing sodium, while increasing fibre in the diet. The

Oilseed Sector Research Gets Government Boost

The federal government is offering up to $19 million for the Canola Council of Canada to lead research in partnership with the Flax Council of Canada, industry scientists and universities, a federal release says. “The oilseed industry is an important driver of Canada’s economy and that’s why our government is making strategic investments to keep


It’s A Buyers’ Market — But Changing

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Jan. 29 lower. Canola was pressured down by losses in the U. S. soy complex, bearish technical signals and steady farmer selling as producers have



Recipe Swap – for Jan. 14, 2010

RECIPE SWAP One of the best things about community cookbooks is all the names they contain. It’s one of the things Yvonne Jansen cherishes most about the cookbook she and three other local women created in Cypress River in 1995. “You know the people in it,” she says. “It makes you think of home.” 1995