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Weather forecasters predict better services for women

Women suffer more from changing weather patterns, as their duties were not limited to agriculture.  They are also responsible for cooking, childcare and water fetching

By Michelle Leslie November 14, 2014

Meteorologists from around the world are meeting with women’s rights activists and aid workers in Geneva to develop climate and weather services geared specifically to women. The Nov. 5-7 conference will also discuss how to attract and promote more female scientists in meteorology and hydrology. Michel Jarraud, secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO),

Cattle on pasture in Argentina. Photo: Laureano Gherardi

Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock, Opinion

Sometimes cattle don’t displace trees — the trees displace cattle

New non-cattle-ranching owners of U.S. rangeland are one reason for brush encroachment

By Arizona State University September 2, 2014

Half of the Earth’s land mass is made up of rangelands, which include grasslands and savannas, yet they are being transformed at an alarming rate. Woody plants, such as trees and shrubs, are moving in and taking over, leading to a loss of critical habitat and causing a drastic change in the ability of ecosystems

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VIDEO: Touring the ebbs and flows on the Manitoba Escarpment, Part One

Deerwood Soil and Water Management Association studying effects of soil erosion, flooding

By Allan Dawson August 13, 2014

The Deerwood Soil and Water Management Association is known for its innovative conservation work on the Manitoba Escarpment’s south Tobacco Creek watershed, a little over 110 km southwest of Winnipeg. Provided with funding from all levels of government and farmer-land owners, the association has built small dams to slow runoff and reduce soil erosion and

Cereals, Did you know?

Saskatchewan researchers help crack the wheat genome

The development could unlock untapped yield and quality potential

By University of Saskatchewan July 24, 2014

University of Saskatchewan researchers are part of an international team who published the first chromosome-based draft sequence of the wheat genome, a development that promises wheat breeders powerful new tools in developing varieties to meet the challenges of world population growth and climate change. “The release of the chromosomal draft of the wheat genome sequence will accelerate gene

Opinion

Difficult questions

July 11, 2014

The short-term questions arising from what is shaping up to be another billion-dollar-plus flood for the province are clear, although they may not be easily answered. How do you care for livestock that has no pasture and for which there is vastly reduced prospects for winter feed? Or how to get people back into their

The Assiniboine was expected to crest at the Portage la Prairie Diversion earlier this week. Photo: Shannon VanRaes

Beef cattle, Crops, Local news

KAP calls for special assistance

It’s urging the province to request AgriRecovery

By Allan Dawson July 10, 2014

Farm leaders are calling for special disaster assistance as flood losses in Manitoba appear ready to top the billion-dollar flood of 2011. “It’s pretty hard to ignore the fact that there is a widespread problem that needs attention from all levels of government because rural municipalities and farmers on their own just can’t cope with

Did you know?, News, Other livestock

Insect farms: Investors see big profits in thinking small

Flies fed garbage become an environmentally friendly source of protein

By Colin Packham July 10, 2014

When it comes to resolving a big global food problem, a new breed of farmers and their financial backers are thinking small. Work on the world’s largest fly farm has begun in South Africa after the European firm behind the project won much-needed funding from investors, propelling the use of insects as livestock feed beyond

Howard Buffett is interviewed by Charlene Finck during the sixth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture held in Winnipeg. Photo: Shannon VanRaes

News

Biotech has role in conservation

No need to be technology averse when it comes to conservation agriculture and improving soil health

By Shannon VanRaes July 4, 2014

Biotechnology can be used to improve soil health but that’s not necessarily happening the way it is being used today, the keynote speaker at the World Congress on Conservation Agriculture said. David Montgomery, author of Dirt, The Erosion of Civilizations and a professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington told the conference biotechnology does

News

Turning the sod on water management with multiple benefits

The Pelly Lake Watershed Management project will help control spring runoff, boost hay yields, reduce nutrient loads and produce biofuel

By Laura Rance-Unger June 9, 2014

In a symbolic nod to the past, officials here used an old coal shovel to turn the sod on a project many see as a new future of renewable energy and renewed water quality. After decades of failed attempts to drain a picturesque valley located about five km southeast of Holland so that farmers could

News & Opinion, Opinion

Educational systems for 2050 — lessons from history

An essay from Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050 an assessment of  Prairie agriculture’s readiness for climate change

By Michael Trevan May 27, 2014

“Education is what survives when what was learned has been forgotten.” (B.F. Skinner 1964, New Scientist, 21 May) “(Education) has produced a vast population able to read, but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.” (G.M. Trevelyan 1942, in English Social History) Taken together, these quotes are

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Wheat leads grains higher with Russian strikes in focus

Manitoba Co-operator top 25 of 2025

China imports no US soybeans for third month; Argentine arrivals up 634 per cent

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