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CETA – What it means for Canadian farmers

Glacier FarmMedia Special Report: Examining the implications of Canada’s new trade deal with the EU

By Gfm Staff, Paul Harris March 21, 2016

Glacier FarmMedia assembled a team of reporters from its network of publications, which includes the Manitoba Co-operator, to examine the implications of Canada’s new trade deal with the European Union on Canadian agriculture and food processing. In coming weeks, watch for a series of articles that zero in on the challenge Canadian agriculture faces turning

Dr. Bill Ashton, director of Brandon University’s Rural Development Institute has been leading a number  of research projects geared towards strengthening resources for rural innovators.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Research study examines the path of rural innovations

A Brandon research centre believes rural Manitoba contains a wealth of innovation ideas and hopes to create new support services to help residents get their ideas to market

By Jennifer Paige January 15, 2016

Rural entrepreneurs face steep hurdles bringing their innovations to market, but the province is well endowed with people willing to put their ideas to the test, researchers with Brandon’s Rural Development Institute have found. The institute recently partnered with eight Manitoba bulk food-processing companies to analyze sector activity and growth opportunities. “This study itself builds

Opinion

Editorial: Just print your food and eat it?

By Laura Rance-Unger July 27, 2015

Those of us who still garden have a rather quaint view of food and technology. We plant seeds, help them grow, harvest and eat (cooking optional). Meat or other sources of protein are a bit of an afterthought compared to the taste of those first seasonal bites of melt-in-your mouth potatoes, beans, beets and carrots.

Livestock, Markets

U.S. bird flu causes egg shortage, emergency measures

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 25, 2015

Chicago/New York | Reuters — As a virulent avian influenza outbreak continues to spread across the Midwestern U.S., some egg-dependent companies are contemplating drastic steps — importing eggs from overseas or looking to egg alternatives. A spokeswoman for Archer Daniels Midland said that as egg supplies tighten and prices rise, the food processing and commodities

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Safe food preservation advice comes early this year

Prairie Fare: Poached Turkey Salad with Fennel, Kale and Cashews

By Julie Garden-Robinson May 8, 2015

We have reached the time of year when church potlucks are plentiful and garages are cleared out to become open-air dining rooms for graduation parties. No one wants a special event with bountiful food and numerous guests to become a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, food prepared or stored unsafely can cause illness or even death.

National news

Farm and food goodies in federal budget well received

Farmers will get an increased capital gains exemption when they sell the farm

By Alex Binkley May 1, 2015

Farm groups are welcoming federal budget provisions that offer long-sought-after increases in the capital gains exemption on farm sales, the manufacturing equipment depreciation allowance and trade expansion programs. Increasing the capital gains exemption to $1 million from $813,000 has been on the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s wish list for years. Implementing it immediately will “have

Farmers like Karen Friesen, who are engaged in small-scale food processing and direct marketing, are encouraged that the province has committed to helping their sector prosper. Friesen and her husband Jonathan operate Valleyfield Acres near Morden, selling farm-raised vegetables and preserves.

Local news

Province promises new supports for smaller farmers and processors

The report says support to grow food-processing sector  must extend to all sizes of players

By Lorraine Stevenson January 23, 2015

A new report aimed at supporting local producers and small-scale pro-cessors is being praised as an important step towards fostering a better working environment for new entrants to farming and food processing. Advancing the small scale, local food sector in Manitoba, a path forward, a 65-page report that includes 21 recommendations, was released last week

Country Crossroads

How to grow a food business

Small-scale food product makers are capturing business opportunities  in a market hungry for locally made specialty and niche products

By Lorraine Stevenson January 21, 2015

Natalie Dueck recalls the day she won gold at the Great Manitoba Food Fight. She’d just accepted a $15,000 cheque at the 2011 event for a snack food made with hemp seed and realized this meant no turning back from becoming a small-scale food processor. At the time, the New Bothwell mom was doing a

Local news

Innovative food processors get funding kick-starts

Growing Forward 2 funding aims to help this province’s unique processors  and agribusinesses grow, says provincial agriculture minister

By Lorraine Stevenson January 7, 2015

A small on-farm processor hoping to start selling milk in old-fashioned recyclable glass bottles is one of seven companies to receive Growing Forward 2 funding supporting investments in made-in-Manitoba food products. Dairy farmers Jim and Angie Appleby, who farm with Jim’s family near Steinbach are developing an on-farm micro-creamery to pasteurize and bottle milk and

Opinion

Animal industry entering a mini-boom period

By Chris Hurt January 2, 2015

In 2007, meat consumption per person in the U.S. was 219 pounds for the big four of beef, pork, chicken, and turkey. Current USDA estimates for this year are down to 199 pounds per person, nearly a 10 per cent decrease in seven years. In percentage terms, consumption of beef has been down 17 per

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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