FCC AgriSpirit Fund Supports 11 Manitoba Communities

The Manitoba recipients include: Shoal Lake Leisure Services, Shoal Lake: $22,000 for replacement of existing equipment and repairs to the existing facilities; Pilot Mound Millennium Recreation Complex Inc., Pilot Mound: $10,000 for completion of the theatre/cultural area and/or the museum area; Emerson Volunteer Fire and Rescue, Emerson: $7,500 for purchase of a new fire pumper

4-H Reports – for Dec. 24, 2009

The Co-operator will publish 4-H reports once a month. Reports can be submitted by the third week of the month by email to [email protected],by regular mail to 4-H Reports, c/o Manitoba Co-operator, 1666 Dublin Ave. , Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1 or by fax to 204-954-1422. OAK LAKE BEEF The club held its monthly meeting Dec.


What’s Up – for Dec. 17, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Dec. 16-17 – Manitoba Cattle Producers Association annual general meeting, Victoria Inn, 3550 Victoria Ave., Brandon. For more info visit www.mcpa.net. 2010 Jan. 19-21 – Manitoba Ag Days, Keystone Centre, Brandon. For more info call 204-571-6566 or visit agdays.com.Jan. 19-21 – Red River Basin Land and

What’s Up – for Dec. 10, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Dec. 11 – Crop Research Organization of Portage (CROP) annual meeting, 3 to 6 p. m., Portage Fair Board office, Island Park, Portage la Prairie. Supper included. For more info call MAFRI in Portage at 204-239-3352. Dec. 14 – MAFRI age verification and premises ID “how-to”

FCC Honours Farm Women

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is seeking nominations for the 2010 FCC Rosemary Davis Award, which honours Canadian women for their leadership and commitment to agriculture. FCC is looking for five women who deserve recognition for their achievements in the agriculture industry. They can be agriculture producers, agribusiness operators, agrologists, teachers, veterinarians, researchers, community builders, journalists,


What’s Up – for Dec. 3, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Dec. 7-9 – Manitoba Conservation Districts Association convention and trade show, Keystone Centre, Brandon. Theme: “Our environment: The cost of doing nothing.” Earlybird registration ends Nov. 16. For more info call 204-571-1097, visit www.mcda.caor email [email protected]. Dec. 8 – Year-end farm taxation seminar, 7-9 p. m.,

What’s Up – for Nov. 26, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 21-28 – Canadian Western Agribition, Evraz Place (formerly Regina Exhibition Park), Regina. For more info visit www.agribition.com. Nov. 26 – Keystone Agricultural Producers District No. 3 annual meeting, 1:30 p. m., University of Manitoba research station, Carman. Nov. 26 – Keystone Agricultural Producers District No.

Briefs Continued – for Oct. 29, 2009

Drive away hunger: Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) Drive Away Hunger program finished the last leg of its annual five-week journey on Oct. 16, with 1,627,617 pounds of food raised for food banks nationwide. Six tractor tours took place in Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Regina (where FCC’s corporate office is located) from October


In Brief… – for Sep. 17, 2009

Petunia facelift: Three eastern research institutions are joining forces to give the popular petunia a genetic overhaul. Researchers from the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, the University of Guelph and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture will soon begin work on developing new traits for the ornamental. “Taking a genomics approach we will search for value-added

Farmers As… Health-Care Professionals?

It’s become common for farmers to refer to themselves as food producers, environmental managers or businesspeople. Now a discussion paper recently commissioned by the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) aims to radically expand their job description. How about adding “health-care professional” to your resumé? Concluding that farmers’ fortunes and public health are intrinsically linked, the