Beef on dairy cross is providing a great supplement to current beef demands. PHOTO: Kristy Nudds

Five Glacier FarmMedia writers earn awards for farm journalism

Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation also honours GFM executive editor Laura Rance

Five writers with Glacier FarmMedia, owners of this website, earned six awards for excellence in the field of ag journalism from the Canadian Farm Writers Federation at its 2025 conference in September in Winnipeg.

An Announcement A Day

It’s an old trick tried by governments of every stripe, but it doesn’t hurt to flag it. That’s the practice of dribbling out funding announcements in order to get news coverage in advance of an election, though recently “flood” would be a better word. These are from Agriculture Canada so far in March, all mentioning


Pigeon King Arrested, Charged With Fraud

Fraud-and bankruptcy-related charges have been laid in Kitchener, Ont. against the province’s self-styled Pigeon King. Arlan Galbraith, 62, turned himself in to Waterloo Regional Police on Dec. 1 in Kitchener, where according to police he was held for a bail hearing at Provincial Court and then released until his next court date Jan. 25. Galbraith,

Letters – for Apr. 15, 2010

Disastrous economic development The warning previews are being posted, as John Oliver speaks out on global energy, with food and water shortages on the horizon. (March 25 Manitoba Co-operator story by Daniel Winters.) We read that more than one billion people go hungry every single day and have little or no clean water to drink,


Nothing Passé About Old MacDonald’s Approach

Manitoba’s farm media is full of the same story. The stories have different headlines and characters, but the main issue is as recurring as the beat of a drum. “What’s wrong with Prairie agriculture? What’s wrong with the AgriStability program? What’s happening to commodity, fertilizer, and cattle prices?” Sometimes columnists allude to the problems that

LETTERS – for Nov. 6, 2008

Drainage maintenance still allowed In response to the article “Licence exemption for minor drainage works removed,” which appeared in the Oct. 30 edition of the Manitoba Co-operator, Keystone Agricultural Producers would like to assure its members that we are working in co-operation with officials from Manitoba Water Stewardship to bring forward the concerns of producers.


Buhler relaunches Versatile tractor brand

A storied brand name in the Canadian farm tractor business is coming out from under other companies’ logos for the first time in about 20 years. Winnipeg’s Buhler Industries, makers of the Buhler Versatile and Genesis tractor lines, announced last Thursday that Versatile will be the only brand associated with Buhler’s tractor division, which until