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There are a handful of fatalities every year because parents didn’t find that safe balance between the necessities of work and childcare — plus their desire to inspire.

Comment, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Comment: Combining work, life and farm safety

Keeping kids safe on the farm is a complex balance

By Laura Rance-Unger September 20, 2019

It’s a story that’s sending a collective shudder through the farming community — and a powerful message. A four-year-old boy died of head injuries last year after he fell out of the skid-steer bucket he was riding in with his brother while their father was using it to move wood chips on their Ontario farm.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Manitoba farmers falling through the cracks

By Gord Gilmour September 19, 2019

The past couple of months have been frustrating ones for the staff of this publication. For us in the agriculture sector the election was particularly ill-timed as it encompassed much of a particularly challenging growing season. We’ve run into more than a few examples of gun-shy provincial civil servants, who have been extremely reluctant to

Clare (left) and Jill (right) Martens farm cattle and seed crops with their dad and uncle near Boissevain.

Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba, Local news, Other

Sister pair empowered by family to be women in ag

Faces of Ag: Sisters Jill and Clare Martens are tackling farm management and what it means to be a woman farmer in 2019

By Geralyn Wichers September 17, 2019

There’s a sign in one of the Martens family’s farm buildings that says “Jacob Martens and Sons.” “It’s kind of like an icon in my mind of what has changed in one generation,” said Clare Martens, 25. “Now it could say ‘Ben Martens and Daughters.’” Clare and sister Jill, 22, farm alongside their dad and

“My hackles rise when I hear people say farmers want to ‘douse’ their crops with chemicals or ‘slaughter’ their land with fertilizer.” – Robert Saik.

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Food 5.0 challenges agriculture misconceptions

Book tackles fear of pesticides, GMOs and new technologies with facts and common sense

By Alex Binkley September 13, 2019

Author Robert Saik concludes his just-released book Food 5.0 with the following observation — “I have immense faith in our farmers to feed the future… we just have to let them.” The book is aimed at the 99.8 per cent of the population who Saik figures have no on-the-ground knowledge of modern agriculture and explains

Farmit Manitoba, News

Consumers and chemicals: The battle for a balanced pest management system

The preference of your customers is changing and it’s important for your business that you’re aware of it

By Spencer Myers September 13, 2019

The feud between farmers and pests is a never-ending story, and changes in consumer preferences might force producers to look at new ways to battle their microscopic foes. While farmers are in the midst of a constant struggle to protect their crops against bugs and diseases, at the same time consumers on a wide scale

Gould’s father Donald Gould, 86, with grandkids.

Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba, Livestock

Farm family ‘the last thread hold’ of First Nation agriculture

Faces of Ag: BSE and flooding nearly wiped out his family  farm, but Derrick Gould won’t let their way of life die

By Geralyn Wichers September 13, 2019

Derrick Gould’s farm is one of two left in his community. “We’re the last thread hold of the First Nation agriculture, farming way of life,” Gould told the Manitoba Co-operator. Forty years ago, Gould’s community of Pinaymootang (Fairford) First Nation was home to more than 30 farmers. As the community’s population grew, available farmland diminished,

On a typical farm, nozzles on a sprayer are running 37.5 per cent of the time. But at Hebert Grain Ventures, that figure is 54.8 per cent, an efficiency gain that adds 75 cents per acre to the bottom line.

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

How one farm put data analytics to work

This grain farm makes money by assessing data on everything from employees to soil moisture

By Jennifer Blair September 12, 2019

Most people say, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” But at Hebert Grain Ventures, their motto is, “If it’s not broke, you haven’t looked hard enough.” “We don’t believe that, just because we had a good year or a good yield, that’s enough,” said Evan Shout, the Saskatchewan farm’s chief financial officer. “If we

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Editor’s Take: Yellow dogs

By Gord Gilmour September 12, 2019

Forty-seven years. Under a plan put forward by the Progressive Conservatives in the waning days of the provincial election, that’s how long it will have taken farmers to get a fairer education tax system. It was a foundational issue in 1984 when the province’s general farm organization, the Keystone Agricultural Producers, came into being. To

Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Opinion: Rural Manitoba overlooked in election

It seems the parties have decided everything outside the Perimeter Highway isn’t worth talking about

By Bill Campbell September 12, 2019

In the 24-7 news cycle we live in, it’s hard for us all to take the time and consider what might be coming down the road. We seemingly lack the ability to see past today or tomorrow because we are so inundated with information that we simply can’t begin to consider what lies ahead. That’s

U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a question as he speaks to reporters, March 29, 2019.

Comment, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Opinion: The enemy of my enemy remains an enemy

Trade wars are proving more complex than the tweeter-in-chief expected

By Alan Guebert September 11, 2019

Most farmers are old enough to remember when the U.S. president noted that “trade wars are good, and easy to win.” That was, after all, several tariff hikes, dozens of trade meetings, and more than 15,000 presidential tweets ago. It may seem like a lifetime but it was just 19 months ago, on March 2,

Daily Network News

Pulse Weekly: No upside for peas until after New Year

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat sets fresh lows on supply pressure, Ukraine ceasefire talks

U.S. livestock: Cattle rise, hogs recoup losses

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