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MBFI researchers recommend giving paddocks at least 75 days of growth between grazings.

Adapting the adaptive grazing program

Planned grazing must be flexible enough to fit real life, experts say

By Alexis Stockford August 20, 2018

The term may be “planned” grazing, but the plan may not survive contact with the field. That was the message that provincial livestock specialists Pam Iwanchysko and Jane Thornton recently made during a planned grazing workshop at the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives site. “There’s no silver bullet in any grazing system,” Thornton said. “I

South Sudanese women walk to the site of a UN’s World Food Program (WFP) food aid air drop near the town of Katdalok, in Jonglei State of South Sudan July 30, 2018.

Did you know?, News, Other

Climate taxes could fuel food insecurity

The impact could easily outstrip the effects of a changing climate itself

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 15, 2018

One of the reasons climate mitigation systems like carbon taxes are touted is the growing risk of food insecurity in a changing climate. But new research suggests the policies themselves, if they’re not carefully designed, could fuel even more widespread hunger and food insecurity than the direct impacts of climate change. Those are the findings

The federal government says it’s putting millions into the fight to protect Lake Winnipeg.

Local news, News

Feds put up funds for Lake Winnipeg

Water quality and wetlands are key targets for the promised spending

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 13, 2018

The federal government will be spending $3.8 million over the next four years to fund groups working to protect Lake Winnipeg. Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna announced the funding for 23 new projects under the Lake Winnipeg Basin Program Aug. 2 in Gimli. The Lake Winnipeg Basin Program will take action to reduce

James Battershill, general manager for Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP).

Local news, News, Other

Manitoba’s consultations begin on pricing for carbon emissions

KAP members will be looking at what an offset market means for agriculture

By Lorraine Stevenson August 10, 2018

The provincial government has released a consultation document on devising a new output-based pricing system (OBPS) related to carbon emissions. The OBPS system, like a cap-and-trade program, will apply to large-scale industrial facilities with annual emissions of 50,000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, requiring these facilities to meet specific emission targets, or pay

Students Makena Lawless (Rossburn Elementary) (left) and Haley Chuchmuch (Rossburn Collegiate) helped out with the tree planting.

Country Crossroads, Other

National Tree Project Planting Day held in RMBR

Project highlighted the important role that trees play in the environment

By Candy Irwin June 21, 2018

The Riding Mountain UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve (RMBR) held a “National Tree Project Planting Day” last month to highlight the invaluable role that trees play in our environment. The initiative stems from a collaboration between the Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association and the Government of Canada, which will see 100,000 trees planted in 14 Canadian biosphere

Local farmers, nutritionists, researchers and industry representatives tackle the GMO debate at the Brandon screening of “Food Evolution” April 10.

Country Crossroads, Local news, Other

Documentary takes off the gloves on GMO debate

GMOs have been a lightning rod for controversy, but documentary  ‘Food Evolution’ argues that science has been the underdog in the debate

By Alexis Stockford May 9, 2018

Agriculture recently had a red-carpet moment, with twin screening of the documentary “Food Evolution” in Brandon and Winnipeg. Organized by the Manitoba Canola Growers, Canola Eat Well, the Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association, Canadian Agri-Marketing Association and Assiniboine Community College, screening and panel discussion on April 10 aimed to educate the public about the

The 100th meridian west (solid line) has long been considered the divide between the relatively moist eastern United States, and the more arid West. Climate change may already have started shifting the divide eastward  (dotted line).

Did you know?, News, Other

Where the Great Plains began?

The 100th meridian may not mark the start of the Prairies much longer

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 23, 2018

It’s always been a point of pride in Manitoba that the Prairies begin here, at the 100th meridian. That north-south line cleaves North America in two from Mexico to Manitoba, as first noted in 1978 by explorer John Wesley Powell, who called it the boundary between the humid East and the arid West. Now scientists

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Who needs convincing?

By John Morriss April 5, 2018

Maybe it’s just a guilty pleasure or maybe you can justify it by saying it’s good mental exercise, but one way or another I confess — I watch “Jeopardy.” One of the benefits of being semi-retired is that you can be home to watch it at 4:30. Considering the U.S. drug commercials (with their terrifying

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Future risks

By Gord Gilmour March 29, 2018

Manitoba’s agriculture community is welcoming news it will be getting a few more exemptions from the incoming provincial carbon tax. The Pallister government this week announced fuels used to heat and cool livestock buildings and greenhouses and to dry grain would get a pass on the tax. The sector successfully argued from the outset it

Blain Hjertaas takes attendees through the carbon and hydrological cycle during a March 14 workshop on agriculture and climate change in Pipestone.

Crops, Local news

Confronting climate change through the power of plants

Carbon sequestration was front and centre as producers gathered in Pipestone to ponder how agriculture could change the conversation around climate change

By Alexis Stockford March 26, 2018

Blain Hjertaas insists farmers already have the key to solving climate change. It’s growing in their fields. Ground should never be bare, the holistic management instructor argued in Pipestone March 14, part of an event dissecting agriculture’s role in climate change. Hjertaas argued that conventional annual cropping leaves gaps in early spring and in fall

Daily Network News

Canada, Philippines make African swine fever zoning agreement

Germany, Spain urge EU to back Mercosur trade pact, but France resists

U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle fall

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