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Freedom Cry No Excuse For Dishonest Deliveries

By Les Mcewan December 16, 2010

Alot can be learned while waiting in line at the elevator. One day I observed elevator employees climbing up on the top of a large semitrailer to probe a load of wheat for samples. For most small elevators, this would be considered unusual since the typical load is sampled as it is dumped into the

Country Crossroads

Start Tomato Seeds Soon

By Lillian Deedman April 8, 2010

Tomato seed should be sown no sooner than four to six weeks before the last spring frost. Plant the seed thinly, covering with a soilless mix to a depth of one-quarter inch, and use a mild fertilizer of one level teaspoon of 20 20 20 dissolved in two gallons of water at each watering. Keep

Hogs, Livestock

Manure-Processing Projects Approved For Funding

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 4, 2010

A hog manure lagoon and a combined hog/ chicken manure lagoon will be used in the project. Test projects to separate useful fertilizer out of liquid manure and to compost solids will get underway this spring with public and producer funding. Hog producer Hytek plans to assess a manure treatment system that separates out crop

Beef cattle, News

Beef-Grading Agency Ready For Technology Leap

By Cindy Delaloye February 11, 2010

We have the technology, but now the question becomes how to put it to its best use. In the spring of 2008 the board of directors of the Canadian Beef Grading Agency (CBGA) set an admirable goal to have technology and objective measurement in place of today’s human and subjective graders by the year 2013.

Country Crossroads

Last-Minute “Christmas Tree”

By Albert Parsons December 24, 2009

Perhaps you are downsizing, or you have moved into smaller accommodations, or you are spending much of the Christmas season elsewhere. If you had decided not to have a Christmas tree this year but are beginning to think the place looks a little bare, there is a simple solution. You can create a substitute Christmas

Livestock

Alberta Lamb Industry Presses For Increased Production

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 19, 2009

Alberta Lamb Producers has mounted a new campaign to increase lamb production in the province, aimed at filling a greater share of domestic demand with domestic supply. The campaign, rolled out last month at the Alberta Sheep Symposium at Leduc, is aimed not only at bringing new producers into the industry, but also at enticing

Cereals, News

Electronic Sniffer For Taste, Aroma

By Daniel Winters September 17, 2009

Move over Toucan Sam, there’s a new nose in town. The parrot in the Froot Loops TV commercials, who “follows his snoot, for flavours of fruit,” has for decades urged children to nag their parents into buying the colourful cereal of dubious nutritive value. At the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceutical Research, scientists

Country Crossroads

Cooking With Grandchildren

By Colleen Gengler September 10, 2009

For some grandparents it is common for kids to help in the kitchen. For others, special-occasion baking might be the extent of kids helping out. Here are some suggestions to get enthused about cooking and baking together. Keep a sense of humour when you work with kids in the kitchen. Begin with talking about family

Cereals, Opinion

Manitoba Farmer Gives Commons Committee An Earful

By Alex Binkley August 20, 2009

Politicians and farm groups spend too much time debating marketing boards, the Canadian Wheat Board and farm safety nets and not enough on what will really help producers, a southwestern Manitoba farmer told the Commons agriculture committee recently. “Those three areas of policy suck 90 per cent of the oxygen out of the ag policy

Crops, Forages, Livestock

Cartwright-Area Farmer Direct Markets Free-Range, Grass-Fed Hogs

By Daniel Winters May 28, 2009

“We didn’t want a barn, so we thought that we’ll try to do it similar to the way we do the calves.” – WAYNE MCDONALD What if you could train beef cows to have twins every spring and eat Canada thistle? The McDonalds’ system for raising Berkshire hogs on pasture comes pretty close to that

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle tick lower in thin pre-holiday trade

U.S. grains: Wheat extends gains on short covering, war risk

Prairie forecast: Plenty more chances for snow over Holidays

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Freedom Cry No Excuse For Dishonest Deliveries

Start Tomato Seeds Soon

Manure-Processing Projects Approved For Funding

Beef-Grading Agency Ready For Technology Leap

Last-Minute “Christmas Tree”

Alberta Lamb Industry Presses For Increased Production

Electronic Sniffer For Taste, Aroma

Cooking With Grandchildren

Manitoba Farmer Gives Commons Committee An Earful

Cartwright-Area Farmer Direct Markets Free-Range, Grass-Fed Hogs

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