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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.

Country Crossroads

Attracting wildlife to your yard

Keep needs in mind as you plan your landscape

By Red River Basin Commission March 28, 2014

Properly planned native landscapes can provide wildlife with various habitat needs. Selecting plants that provide food, cover and water can provide the needed habitat elements for many species that will visit your backyard. During the planning process wildlife habitat requirements need to be considered, and they will vary from year-round habitat for resident species to

Crops, Oilseeds

Study finds wild bees boost crop yields

By Victoria Paterson March 16, 2013

Wild bees and other pollinating insects can make quite a difference when it comes to crop yields, according to a new study. “Our message is not that honeybees are bad — it’s that we could do better if, in addition, we were encouraging more activity by wild insects,” said Lawrence Harder, a professor of biological

Country Crossroads, News

A good winter for birders

By Donna Gamache February 12, 2013

The term bird irruptions (also known as eruptions), sounds like it might be something dangerous, but it just means a year when an unusually large number of a certain bird invades a region. This can be an exciting event for birders. Some winters there may be a larger-than-usual number of snowy owls in the southern

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: The sunshine vitamin

By Lorraine Stevenson February 6, 2013

Some of you might remember how you started cold winter days as kids with a tablespoon of cod liver oil. Mom always had it waiting on the corner of the kitchen table before I left for school — yeech! But it was good for us. It was a valuable dose of vitamin D, which, until

News

Warning issued over rodent infestations in vehicles

By Shannon VanRaes January 17, 2013

Rural residents are being warned that mouse infestations in parked vehicles pose a serious health hazard. Manitoba Public Insurance has seen a sharp jump in claims for rodent damage and MPI spokesman Brian Smiley says people need to take extreme care if there’s a chance those rodents were deer mice. “With deer mice there could

Crops, Livestock, News

Shelterbelts the bee’s knees for pollinators

By Daniel Winters August 10, 2012

Bees and insect predators can help boost yields and cut losses, but farmers have to provide a good home

Shelterbelts don’t just keep topsoil from blowing way. They also provide homes for pollinator species, a group that includes butterflies, beetles, birds, wasps, flies – and even monkeys in some countries. But far and away the most effective of all are the bees, said Mark Wonneck, an ecologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. “They are

News, Opinion

The challenge of raising informed consumers

By Barb Galbraith April 30, 2012

One hundred years ago when Canadians often butchered their own meat and pulled vegetables from their own gardens, they did not need to contemplate the source of their food. They could see it with their own eyes. Today, our access to food is so easy that we need not contemplate the source either. There are

Cereals, Crops, News

Emerging Fast-Food Nation Indonesia Props Up Wheat Market

By Michael Taylor July 21, 2011

Indonesia will be crowned top Asian wheat importer this year, as higher incomes turn Southeast Asia’s largest economy into a fast-food nation and help to keep global prices on the boil. As affluent Indonesians turn away from rice, their country is vying with Japan to be Asia’s leading wheat buyer, while the latter battles economic

Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 15, 2010

April 15, 2010

Disastrous economic development The warning previews are being posted, as John Oliver speaks out on global energy, with food and water shortages on the horizon. (March 25 Manitoba Co-operator story by Daniel Winters.) We read that more than one billion people go hungry every single day and have little or no clean water to drink,

Daily Network News

India, Japan canola crops to be steady in 2026/27 – USDA

ICE Weekly: Trade waits for canola to break out

Advance Payments Program interest free limit set at $250,000 for 2026

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