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Country Crossroads

Annual food safety reminder

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Many of us have fond memories of family picnics and outdoor cooking from childhood. All you needed was a blanket and some food and you could set up a picnic on your lawn, at a park or even in the living room in the winter. Today, grills are prominent features on most patios and decks.
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap, Aug. 9

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RecipeSwap New rules for labelling help those with allergies Reading the label on food products just got easier for those living with allergies or celiac disease — and squinting at the fine print. Last week Health Canada unveiled new rules for what must be declared on food labels so you can tell at a glance
Cereals, Opinion

The prime minister honours CWB protesters for fighting unjust law

The following is an excerpt from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s remarks while at an event in Kindersley, Sask., Aug. 1 to celebrate the government’s victory in eliminating the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk. What a great day this is. It’s a great day for western Canadian farmers — a great day for all who have
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

OUR HISTORY: August 6, 1992

Our August 6, 1992 issue reported on record grain exports of 30.75 million tonnes, but the price news was not so cheery, with truck dealers offering to trade for wheat at $3.15 per bushel. The low price was thanks to the U.S.-EU trade war, and the previous week the U.S. had awarded a $31.08-per-tonne subsidy
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

You can’t manage what you won’t measure

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Sixty-nine years of history came to an end August 1. The single-desk marketing system of the Canadian Wheat Board, which started in 1943, is now officially dead. Few farmers were ever asked about this change. There was no producer vote, no public hearing, no respectable debate in Parliament. There was no cost-benefit analysis. There’s not
Did you know?, Livestock, News

Dying art of pig pickin’ seeks revival

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Charleston, S.C. / Reuters / For much of the United States, barbecue means grilling outdoors, but in the South the traditional method is slow roasting a whole hog over wood embers all day or all night. Only 10 to 15 restaurants in the South still cook hogs the slow way, over wood, according to John
Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Ontario farmer continues dairy fight

An Ontario dairy farmer is appealing his conviction of producing, selling and distributing raw milk to the Ontario Court of Appeal. Michael Schmidt, who farms northwest of Toronto, was charged in 2006 following an undercover police sting operation into his dairy business, which supplied 150 families with raw milk. Each family had paid $300 for
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds, Weather

Hot weather is rapidly advancing crops

Weekly Provincial Summary Harvesting of the earliest-seeded spring wheat and barley fields has started and preliminary yields are average to above average. Swathing of canola and oat crops continue across Manitoba, as does the winter wheat harvest. Aster yellows is evident in many canola and flax fields, with a range of severity. Higher-than-normal levels of root rot

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