Dekalb Launches Mobile Application

Dekalb seed is launching a new mobile application, available for download and use on a wide variety of BlackBerry(R) devices. The Dekalb Plant Population Calculator App provides corn and soybean farmers with recommended planting populations for their crops. Once downloaded to their BlackBerry device, the application will provide farmers with a recommended planting population for

Happy Easter From Country Crossroads

If you have any stories, ideas, photos or a comment on what you’d like to see on these pages, send it to Country Crossroads, 1666 Dublin Ave., Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1, phone 1-800-782-0794, fax 204-944-5562, email: [email protected]’d love to hear from you. Please remember we can no longer return material, articles, poems or pictures. –


Fraud Awareness Month

The RCMP and partner agencies wish to remind the public that March is once again Fraud Awareness Month. The purpose of this annual event is to highlight ways for individuals to safeguard themselves from fraud, by educating them by emphasizing specific tactics used to defraud and ways to avoid becoming a victim. PHISHING: As the

4

What is Phishing? a) Looking over someone’s shoulder at an ABM to learn their PIN; b)A scam done over the phone or via email to obtain personal and financial information; c) Rifling through the garbage to look for discarded

Largest U. S. Farm Group Rallies Against Climate Bill

The largest U. S. farm group will oppose aggressively “misguided” climate legislation pending in Congress and fight animal rights activists, said American Farm Bureau Federation president Bob Stallman Jan. 10. In a speech opening the four-day AFBF convention, Stallman said American farmers and ranchers “must aggressively respond to extremists” and “misguided, activist-driven regulation … The


What’s Up – for Apr. 9, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 April 9 – Keystone Agricultural Producers general council meeting, Canad Inns, 2401 Saskatchewan Ave., Portage la Prairie. For more info call 204-697-1140. April 9 – Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame annual general meeting, 1:30 p. m., Salon A, Keystone Centre, Brandon. Meeting open to public, all