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Fencing that once marked pasture land now butts up against the shore of East Shoal Lake. Photos: Shannon VanRaes

Milking the benefits of canola meal

By Allan Dawson June 19, 2013

The Chinese have 7.2 million reasons to switch their dairy cows to canola meal from other protein rations. That’s how many more litres of milk their 12 million cows would produce every day based on a year-long joint Sino-Canadian study conducted by Chinese academics, in co-operation with China’s five largest dairy companies. “Canola meal has

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Steinbach mom develops gluten-free recipes

By Lorraine Stevenson April 26, 2013

Readers occasionally request gluten-free recipes, so I’d like to tell you about Jeanine Friesen this week. The Steinbach mother of two was diagnosed five years ago with Celiac disease, an autoimmune disease that makes the body unable to absorb gluten, affecting about one in every 100 to 200 people in Canada. The only treatment is to

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GMO issue won’t be going away, says consumer trends analyst

By Lorraine Stevenson March 28, 2013

Whole Foods Market recent announcement that by 2018 all products in its stores will be labelled if containing genetically modified ingredients is a sign of “an issue that isn’t going away,” said a speaker at the Canola Council of Canada convention earlier this month. “If there is anyone in this room who thinks that GMOs

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2012 was a year of clear results: CCC president

By Lorraine Stevenson March 25, 2013

Canadian athlete and competitive rower Marnie McBean told last week’s Canola Council of Canada convention delegates that being a true champion means continuously pursuing improvement, even when you’re already at your best. The three-time-gold Olympian and epitome of focus and unflinching drive was just 24 when she and teammate Kathleen Heddle first rowed to a

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Recipe Swap: Use perimeter vision to make over your grocery cart

By Lorraine Stevenson March 16, 2013

What’s your route through your grocery store? If you travel its outer edges, and buy most of your groceries there, you’re going the right direction, according to dietitians who are encouraging us to shop a store’s perimeter more often during March Nutrition Month. That’s where the fresh, unprocessed foods, like raw fruit and vegetables, and

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Recipe Swap: Live well? Eat well?

By Lorraine Stevenson February 28, 2013

Become the next ‘Be Well’ storyteller Everyone loves a great story and it’s even better when the one telling it also lives it. That’s what you’ll hear and see in the ‘Be Well’ Stories told by Manitobans now found online at http://canolarecipes.com. The three inspiring video stories are those of Doug Chorney, East Selkirk farmer

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Recipe Swap: Bite into this bark

By Lorraine Stevenson February 15, 2013

These recipes reach your door on Valentine’s Day, so you may already have had a chocolate treat today. But I’m pretty sure your hankering for chocolate isn’t limited to February 14. I’m including a recipe this week which my sister gave to me after we sat down around her coffee table and munched a little

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Recipe Swap: A new food for a new year

By Lorraine Stevenson January 6, 2013

RecipeSwap A new food for a new year If you haven’t heard of quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wa) you’ll definitely hear more about it this year. 2013 is a new beginning for this very old, gluten-free ancient grain, which actually isn’t even a grain. It’s a seed, grown, harvested and eaten for centuries in an Andean-origin diet.

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Recipe Swap: Pie crusts

By Lorraine Stevenson November 29, 2012

I decided to try a new pie crust recipe last August. This new recipe calls for vodka, so I knew it would be marvellous. Full of enthusiasm to try something new, I headed out to our orchard to get some apples. The tree was literally hanging with ripe fruit, and being the food hoarder that

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Federal politicians handing out Growing Forward funds

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 29, 2012

A number of commodity groups and organizations received allocations under the new Growing Forward program last week

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and other members of Parliament fanned out across Canada making Growing Forward announcements last week under the new agricultural policy framework, Growing Forward 2 and the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP). The new Growing Forward program doubles its cost-shared funding for strategic initiatives including innovation, competitiveness, and market development. “Growing Forward

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Milking the benefits of canola meal

GMO issue won’t be going away, says consumer trends analyst

2012 was a year of clear results: CCC president

Recipe Swap: Use perimeter vision to make over your grocery cart

Recipe Swap: Live well? Eat well?

Recipe Swap: Bite into this bark

Recipe Swap: A new food for a new year

Recipe Swap: Pie crusts

Federal politicians handing out Growing Forward funds

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