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Edith and Wayne Smith retired from jobs in the city and moved back to Edith’s family farm in 2002. In early June the trees in their orchard are covered in delicate white blossoms.

Cherry on top

Carman couple Edith and Wayne Smith took up tending a  not-so-small cherry orchard  after retirement

By Lorraine Stevenson July 16, 2014

It was an idyll of white flowers and buzzing bees in June. In July, it will be popping with bright fruit and filled with U-pickers. This is Wayne and Edith Smith’s Prairie adventure, their fruit farm of the same name, where the 1,000 dwarf sour cherry trees they grow have shed their spring blossoms and

Country Crossroads

One good thing about rain

RecipeSwap: Garden Fresh Potato Salad, Cheese Baked Zucchini, Cucumber Cream Soup, and more!

By Lorraine Stevenson July 10, 2014

Was your garden slow to start this spring? Mine limped along too. Then we had that little sprinkle over the July long weekend. Outside inspecting it the first dry evening afterward, I found masses of squeaky pea vines, huge frilly lettuces, bouquets of basil and parsley, zucchini plants that may take over the planet, dill

The symptoms of lameness related to ergot toxicity can be mistaken for foot rot in the initial stages, but do not respond to treatment.

Beef cattle, Cereals, Livestock

Frozen ears and feet— but not from the cold

Ergot contaminated feed is causing a wide range of easily misdiagnosed herd health problems in Western Canada

By Laura Rance-Unger July 9, 2014

Long, brutally cold Prairie winters could be masking signs of a serious toxin lurking in livestock producers’ feed bins, a University of Calgary veterinary professor warned feed and livestock industry officials recently. Dr. Eugene Janzen, assistant dean of clinical practice, said he was initially perplexed in the winter of 2013 when he observed Alberta feedlot

Country Crossroads

Have you tried quinoa yet?

RecipeSwap: Quinoa Veggie Burgers, Minestrone Quinoa Soup, Norquin Quinoa Salad

By Lorraine Stevenson July 3, 2014

Remember when we puzzled over how to pronounce quinoa? Was that kwin-o-ah? Or kwee no-ah? The ancient grain, or rather seed (pronounced keen-wa for anyone still wondering) had a year dedicated to it in 2013 by the United Nations. That piqued a lot of interest in its nutritional and eating qualities to say the least.

Did you know?

Spinning straw into… mould? Sweet

Ordinary straw can be converted into the sweetener erythritol using a genetically modified mould fungi

By Vienna University of Technology July 3, 2014

Straw is often considered to be worthless and is therefore burned. But researchers have found a way to make it into erythritol, a sweetener that is 70 to 80 per cent as sweet as sugar. Erythritol does not make you fat, does not cause tooth decay, has no effect on the blood sugar and, unlike

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Last year’s leftovers

RecipeSwap: Spinach and Green Pea Soup, and Hodgepodge

By Lorraine Stevenson June 19, 2014

A sure sign of approaching summer around here is an almost-empty freezer. Last fall I made a list of everything we put into it, and all those bags of carrots, peas, beans, corn, rhubarb, saskatoons and strawberries seemed like a lot of food at the time. So a few months later, I’m amazed to see

Cereals, News

Cereals crops have beverage potential

Health claims made by beverage manufacturers continue to grow as consumers demand more  nutritious alternatives to traditional canned colas and bottled water

By Shannon VanRaes June 17, 2014

Reaching for a refreshing beverage after a long, hot day could someday mean guzzling back a tall glass of barley water. And no, that doesn’t mean beer. Beverages are the fastest-growing category in food development with new products popping up all the time, says Roberta Irvine at the Food Development Centre in Portage la Prairie.

Country Crossroads, Pulses

New ways to eat pulses

Recipe Swap

By Lorraine Stevenson April 25, 2014

If you seldom eat beans, peas, lentils or chickpeas, your kids will probably someday wonder what you were eating. All kinds of pulse-based foods are popping up on store shelves, and are increasingly popular among a younger generation trying to eat healthier and smarter than their parents. That might have sounded like mission impossible not

Cereals, News

WGRF asking farmers big funding questions

Where do farmers want to go with funding research and how do they want to get there?

By Allan Dawson March 20, 2014

The Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF), the farmer-run conduit for most of western grain farmers’ investment in agricultural research, wants farmers’ input on future funding and the foundation’s role. “Breeding is a long-term process,” WGRF executive director Garth Patterson told Winter Cereals Manitoba’s annual meeting March 12. “You have to look 10 or 15 years

News

Pilot Mound prosciutto makers start over

Dried meat seizure off the farm last summer brought a simmering debate to a boil

By Lorraine Stevenson February 18, 2014

Six months after food inspectors raided their on-farm meat shop and seized their award-winning prosciutto, a Pilot Mound couple has learned all charges against them have been dropped. Clint and Pam Cavers, whose old-world-style sausage earned top honours at the Great Manitoba Food Fight last year, have also been given the green light to go

Daily Network News

U.S. researchers bet on hybrid, GMO seeds to make wheat profitable again

Hormuz-driven fertilizer shortage could raise grain prices, Goldman Sachs says

Prairie forecast: Arctic air keeps spring warming at bay

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