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Avoid Being Struck By Lightning This Summer

RENA NERBAS Lightning is responsible for more deaths and property loss than tornadoes, hurricanes and floods combined. There are three ways that lightning enters a home: a direct strike, through wires or pipes that extend outside the structure, through electrical phones, plumbing, radio/television systems, through any metal wires or bars in concrete walls or flooring.
Opinion

Markets Within Reach For Farms’ Pent-Up Energy

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Manitoba farmers could become major players in the energy marketplace with the right programs. No, that doesn’t mean finding oil under the farm – though that never hurts. It means tapping into markets for the energy products we already produce. As farmers, we are really just managing the landscape to use the sun, water and
Country Crossroads

Earthquake Experience In Chile

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Yvonne Jonk is the matriarch of Swansfleet Alliance near Bruxelles, Manitoba. Three of her boys and one grandson now operate the seed potato and grain farm. This is her experience on a vacation to Chile with her daughter and granddaughter. When planning a holiday, a few requirements come to mind. One should find a sunny,
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Two Cents A Mile

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“If individuals like me can convert a gas vehicle to clean and efficient electricity, the big players in the auto industry certainly can and should.” – HOMEWOOD RESIDENT ROB MCCLEMENT The dilemma facing those who want to continue living rurally, while reducing their transportation footprint, has been much on Homewood-area resident Rob McClement’s mind. His
Crops

Turbine Seeding To Begin At St. Joseph

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Manitoba Hydro has announced construction will begin “immediately” on a 138-megawatt wind farm near St. Joseph. The construction is moving forward following the successful negotiation of a 27-year power purchase agreement between Manitoba Hydro and Pattern Energy, Premier Greg Selinger said in a release Monday, calling the construction of Manitoba’s second major wind farm “an
Cereals, News

Brewer, Farmers Team Up

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Beer was flowing freely at the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) recently in celebration of a unique project that’s putting more money in malting barley growers’ pockets, encouraging sustainable production and improving a brewers’ beer and bottom line. Don’t fret, the bill won’t be coming off farmers’ final payments. A keg of “Biggar Beer” was donated
Opinion

Farmers Will Have Input On Hydro Detour

In response to Mr. Blaine Pederson’s letter to the editor (“Not a done deal,” Co-operator, Jan. 7, page 5) I would like to provide the following comments. The assessment of new transmission requirements for this province was reviewed by the Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board, with a decision being made to develop Bipole III on the west
News

Water-Gulping Companies Don’t Disclose Risk

Most publicly traded companies that depend on water do not adequately disclose their financial risks to droughts and future regulations, even as water scarcity problems mount, according to a report released Feb. 11. The report produced by Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmentalists and Swiss Bank UBS, ranked 100 of the biggest publicly traded
Country Crossroads

Treasure In My Basement

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A little wooden churn that I inherited has a story to tell. It has seen many gallons of cream and produced many pounds of butter over the years at the hand of the cranker. It has been instrumental in providing butter for a family of five and then passed on to the next generation of
News

Future Food, Fuel Conflict Can Be Avoided

An increasing shift away from fossil fuels such as gasoline to alternatives derived from plants and waste need not produce an increase in food prices, U. S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters. Speaking on the sidelines of a UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Vilsack added he expected the U. S. Department of Agriculture to

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