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PHOTOS: 4-H kids take out the trash… from Manitoba ditches

By Lorraine Stevenson May 25, 2015

Manitoba’s roadways are a lot cleaner this week, thanks to hundreds of young 4-H club members who donned gloves, boots and high-visibility vests and set to work last Saturday morning with supervising parents and adult volunteers to gather up garbage in the ditches.

Research proves that he likes it better than the white stuff.

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Rural kids like milk better (especially if it’s free)

School milk consumption dropped by almost half  when chocolate was not available

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 23, 2015

Kids drink more chocolate milk than regular milk when offered a choice, and rural kids drink more milk than urban kids when it’s offered free. That’s the conclusion of “Impact of the removal of chocolate milk from school milk programs for children in Saskatoon, Canada,” a paper published Jan. 14 in the journal Applied Physiology,

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Co-operator reporter takes Farming 101 from a three-year-old expert

Brayden Decosse, three, teaches a fledgling Co-operator reporter a thing or two about farming

By Meghan Mast November 18, 2014

The skies are overcast when I drive up the Decosse family’s long gravel driveway on a Monday morning. I park in front of the house and step out to meet the resident farming expert I’ve been hearing so much about. Brayden Decosse has farmed all his life, spent long hours in the combine during harvest,

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‘Horsing around’ reduces stress in youth

Youth involved in an equine after-school program showed significantly lower levels of stress hormone in their saliva

By Washington State University May 1, 2014

New research from Washington State University reveals how youth who work with horses experience a substantial reduction in stress — and the evidence lies in kids’ saliva. The results are published in the American Psychological Association’s Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin this month. “We were coming at this from a prevention perspective,” said Patricia Pendry, a developmental

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PHOTOS: 4-H kids take out the trash… from Manitoba ditches

Rural kids like milk better (especially if it’s free)

Co-operator reporter takes Farming 101 from a three-year-old expert

‘Horsing around’ reduces stress in youth

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