Morden To Host Traditional BBQ Competition – for Jul. 29, 2010

The best seats in the house for this event are definitely downwind. You’ll want to line up for a mouthwatering sample afterward too. About 25 teams are expected to fire up their barbecues for the 2010 Manitoba Open Barbecue Championship August 28 and 29 in Morden, a newcomer event on the Manitoba festival scene that’s

Bunge Plant Cleared Of Restrictions – for Jul. 29, 2010

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration has lifted restrictions against imports of Canadian canola meal from a Bunge Ltd. plant in Hamilton, Ontario, easing barriers that have sharply cut Canadian exports to the United States. The FDA had placed the Hamilton plant on its online list of plants on import-alert status due to concerns



Crop Report – for Jul. 29, 2010

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall over the past week varied. Warm weather helped the crop advance, however rainfall kept many producers from haying until the weekend. Producers will start desiccating winter wheat towards the end of the week. Some fall rye has been cut. Some of the fall rye has been put up for silage and yields



From Lake To Plate – for Jul. 29, 2010

If you tend to skip the fish section of the grocery store, unsure of how to cook fish or are lacking recipes to prepare it, a new cookbook is here to help. This is the new online cookbook,From Lake to Plateavailable through the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation, containing a huge variety of recipes collected from






Now That’s Good Bread

Beatrice Hosmann of Sandy Lake, Manitoba makes really good bread. I know, because I’m eating a slice right now, toasted, with my coffee! When Hosmann came to Canada from her native Switzerland just over 12 years ago, she and her family found Canadian bread to be insubstantial. “We Europeans love our bread,” said Hosmann, so