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Brandon Research Centre Celebrates 125th

Back in 1886, farmers around here were suffering from drought, Prairie fires were a problem and frost had damaged wheat the fall before. But there was good news too: Brandon was getting an experimental farm – one of five to be built across the country after the Experimental Farm Station Act received Royal Assent June
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In Brief… – for Aug. 25, 2011

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Correction:Due to an editing mistake, an opinion piece from Lydia Johnson which appeared in the Aug. 11 issue, contains the erroneous statement: “They did this fully knowing that they were going to ‘stuff’ this water into the already overcapacitated Lake Manitoba, which does have a proper outlet drain for the extra diverted waters to go
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New Reporter Joins Co-Operator Staff

Today I live in Winnipeg, but my journey began in the deep south of Ontario, watching a way of agricultural life fade into the history books on my family’s tobacco farm. Growing up near Tillsonburg, I worked on tobacco, ginseng and vegetable operations before heading on to the University of Toronto. There I nurtured a
Opinion

New Quebec Policy Emphasizes Food Over Farming

Quebec’s recently released draft for a new agri-food policy, “Giving a Taste of Quebec,” doesn’t include all the ingredients that many in the sector had expected. Pierre Corbeil, the Quebec minister of agriculture, fisheries and food, unveiled the long awaited parliamentary “green paper” (draft policy) on June 7, 2011. The document featured three principal components
Cereals, Opinion

Joe Farmer Goes To Washington (Part 2)

Ihave to admit I didn’t pay much attention to Dan Glickman when he was U.S. secretary of agriculture for the Clinton administration in the late 90’s, but I did have a chance to listen to his keynote address at the Soil and Water Conservation Society’s (SWCS) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. What struck me was
Dairy cattle, News

School Lunches Are Not Cool (Enough)

Tests of more than 700 preschoolers’ packed lunches found that fewer than two per cent of the meats, vegetables and dairy products were cool enough to be safe, according to a U.S. study. One in six U.S. residents gets food poisoning every year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but
Opinion

Letters – for Aug. 11, 2011

This letter is in response to John Fefchak’s June 16 letter in theManitoba Co-operator. Your comment is actually quite in line with the premier of Manitoba. I really have to ask you what you are doing with your human waste? Doesn’t that also go down the river into Lake Winnipeg? Our animal waste goes onto
Livestock

French Duck Fat Puts Gourmet Spin On Biodiesel

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PARIS/REUTERS Duck fat has a rich history in French cuisine as the key ingredient in savoury cassoulets and confits, but now industrious farmers are turning the grease into biodiesel and biogas. A farm co-operative based in St. Aquilin, a rural village in the southwestern region of the Dordogne, is powering a tractor and two other
Livestock

Can They Do This For Coyotes Too?

Australian scientists are working to artificially produce the urine of wild dogs, hoping to keep other wild dogs away from humans and prevent them from destroying livestock, avoiding losses that mount into millions of dollars every year. Researchers say the chemical message in the urine of dingoes, as the wild dogs are known, insists “this

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