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EU farm subsidy reforms cut payments to the wealthiest farms

By Charlie Dunmore February 12, 2013

Europe’s wealthiest landowners, including Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Spain’s Duchess of Alba, will see deep cuts to their future farm subsidies under proposals from members of the European Parliament Jan. 23. Annual payments to the top recipients of agricultural subsidies should be capped at 300,000 euros from 2014, the European Parliament’s influential agriculture committee said.

Cereals, Crops, News

Ukraine to up winter wheat acreage

October 26, 2012

Reuters / Ukraine may increase the winter grain-sowing area for the 2013 harvest to 8.4 million hectares from the originally planned 8.2 million hectares should favourable weather continue. Wet and warm weather has dominated almost all Ukrainian regions in October and only southern regions lack soil moisture. Meteorologists say Ukraine is experiencing the warmest autumn

Country Crossroads

Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Museum

By Darrell Nesbitt October 10, 2012

Museums are a treasure trove of memorabilia that can fill the slate when someone says, “let’s do something.” Featuring artifacts from the original Riding Mountain settlement of 1899, the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Museum in Sandy Lake is visited annually by 500 guests. Located in a municipal building, the museum started with a one-room display, which

Cereals, International news, News

Collective farm emblematic of Russia’s new farm scene

By Melissa Akin September 17, 2012

This year’s wheat, piled in steel sheds on the Banner of Lenin collective farm, shimmers greyish gold in the dusty air, a vision of plenty worthy of a Soviet propaganda poster. In Soviet times, the 15,000-hectare farm in Russia’s Black Sea breadbasket region of Krasnodar, stuck to growing wheat, but over the past two decades

Country Crossroads, News

Dauphin volunteers take up the challenge

By Candy Irwin June 30, 2012

Today in Canada, there are no orphanages. This is not because there are no orphaned, abandoned or “at risk” children, but because we have a social safety net and a belief that children are best taken care of in a family setting whenever possible. Today in Ukraine, there are 275 state-run orphanages, which the statistics

News, Our History

Rhodes Community HallNW 8-29-22 WPM, Ethelbert area

By Edward M. Ledohowski April 15, 2012

Rhodes Hall is a well-preserved example of a 1920s-1930s-era wood-frame, boomtown-fronted, rural community hall. Such structures were commonly located in eastern European districts, where they were erected either as parish halls in conjunction with a nearby rural church, or as secular “National Homes” built by local literary and fraternal organizations. From the time of initial

Dairy cattle, International news, News, Oilseeds

Belarus threatens to ban farm imports from Ukraine

March 14, 2012

kiev / reuters / Belarus has threatened to ban imports of Ukrainian sunflower oil, corn and several other agriculture commodities after Ukraine announced it was barring imports of Belarussian milk and dairy products, Ukraine’s Farm Ministry said March 3. The retaliatory move by Belarus marked an escalation in a regional trade war over dairy products

News, Our History

Romanian farmhouse preserved

By Ed Ledohowski January 27, 2012

The Paulencu House is the last known surviving example of a traditional Romanian-style farmhouse from Manitoba’s settlement era. Its three-part rectangular plan, vernacular design and log construction, brought from the Carpathian Mountain region of Eastern Europe, adeptly blend functional and esthetic elements that extend beyond the basic requirements of a simple, sturdy but comfortable pioneer

News

APAS President Resigns

October 13, 2011

BRIEFS Greg Marshall, president of the Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan, has resigned from his position, citing health reasons, the association announced Oct. 6. Marshall is recovering from a heart attack. Mr. Marshall has provided valuable leadership on behalf of Saskatchewan producers, Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud said. We have enjoyed a good working relationship with

Opinion

Prices Are Good. Don’t Worry, Be Happy

By Alan Guebert September 22, 2011

So corn is rockin north of $7, beans are toyin with $14, cattle look to be headed to who-knows-where, wheat prices for almost every variety are tall to really tall, and hogs, well, bacon is sellin for what steak used to. Wow, huh? And here are two more sweet words: land values. Second-quarter 2011 farmland

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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