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Recipe Swap: Hot chocolate. Magic in a mug

The cure for homesickness (or other winter-related blues)  is really, really, really, good hot chocolate

By Lorraine Stevenson November 28, 2014

Food memories are vivid. We remember not just what we ate or drank, but the smallest details of when and where. Early winter recalls a year on a post-university, backpacking trip in Europe. As winter set in, the fun was over. Hostels were colder and emptier. I was homesick. Other young sojourners’ spirits were just

Our History

Victory in Europe, economy on the homefront

Our History: October & November 1945

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 10, 2014

The Second World War had ended with victory in Europe declared in May and in Japan in August of 1945, but the lingering effects were still clear in our fall issues of 1945. This advertisement in the Oct. 1 issue advised how armed forces personnel could apply to be released for farm work. Economizing was

Livestock

Mink ranchers get reprieve from depressed market

The federal government has extended the deadline for repaying cash advances

By Ron Friesen July 30, 2014

Canada’s financially beleaguered mink producers received a bit of good news last week when the federal government extended the deadline for repaying their 2013 cash advances. Producers now have until June 1, 2015 to repay their Advance Payment Program (APP) cash advances instead of September 30, 2014. The move provides some relief for producers who

Country Crossroads

Pie season’s high season

RecipeSwap: Saskatoon Meringue Pie, Tart Cherry Pie, and Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

By Lorraine Stevenson July 17, 2014

Everyone born on the Prairies has their favourite pie. Make that favourite pies. Do you linger over the pie table at the summer fair not sure which to choose? I do. Especially if strawberry-rhubarb is an option when there’s also saskatoon, various cream types and cherry to choose from. Oh, what to do? “Strawbarb” is

Crops

Conservation not a hippie delusion

Small-scale farmers can implement conservation agriculture and improve soil health  in developing areas, often by using a mix of science and local knowledge

By Shannon VanRaes July 16, 2014

The damaging effects of tillage on soils is well documented on Europe and North American soils. So why is that approach still being exported to developing nations, proponents of conservation agriculture asked the recent World Conference on Conservation Agriculture. “We’re taking that paradigm to developing countries, so one has to ask, what is actually going

Country Crossroads, Our History

The legend of John Ramsay: kindness in the face of tragedy

Betsey Ramsay’s grave lies near the long-deserted settlement of Sandy Bar in the RM of Bifrost

By Ed Ledohowski July 4, 2013

Timeworn and solitary, the marble gravestone surrounded by picket fence lies in a hayfield overlooking the Lake Winnipeg shoreline about five km. east of Riverton. Its chiselled inscription, in a strange mixture of script and print fonts, reads: “IN Memory of BETSEY. Beloved Wife of JOHN RUMSAY. WHO DIED September 1876. Aged 35 years.” Lone

Crops, International news, News

Larger farms face five per cent EU subsidy cut for 2013

April 9, 2013

Reuters / Farmers who receive more than 5,000 euros a year in European Union subsidies will see payments above that level cut by five per cent this year, to bring farm spending in line with proposed EU budget cuts. The European Commission will propose the move after its forecasts showed that farm subsidies for 2013,

Country Crossroads

Ukrainian culture showcased to tourists

By Lorraine Stevenson March 25, 2013

It’s a rare Prairie cathedral, an outstanding example of early Christian Church architecture, and something visitors to Dauphin seldom saw, save from the outside. The Church of the Resurrection has been a local landmark since its construction in the 1930s, but until recently, few had a chance to learn about it or the people who

Crops, International news, News, Weather

Ukraine seeks to restore irrigated agriculture

By Reuters March 16, 2013

Ukraine plans to restore irrigation systems on an area of one million hectares in the southern part of the country in a bid to increase agricultural output in arid regions, the Agriculture Ministry said March 6. Ukrainian farmers used to cultivate about 2.5 million hectares of irrigated land in the Soviet era, mostly in the

International news, News

Farm subsidies still get top share of EU austerity budget

By Charlie Dunmore February 15, 2013

France and other major farming nations thwarted  attempts to shift farm spending to growth and jobs

Farm subsidies will continue to gobble up the biggest share of the European Union’s budget to 2020, despite a 13 per cent drop in future agricultural spending, under a deal struck by EU leaders Feb. 8. Agriculture’s budget supremacy was secured after France and other major farming nations thwarted attempts by Britain and its northern

Daily Network News

Feed Grains Weekly: Good export demand pushing up domestic prices

Beef DNA testing now available in Canada

Domestic abuse survivors may need extra support when livestock is involved, experts say

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