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Linda Malcolmson, Cigi’s manager of special crops, oilseeds and pulses says the establishment of a pulse-processing facility and the skilled team operating it is one of the things she’s most proud of from her time at Cigi. That team includes technologist (l) Gina Boux, and project managers Peter Frolich and Heather Maskus. Lindsay Bourre, a technical specialist (not pictured) is also part of Cigi’s pulse team. Photo: Lorraine Stevenson

A job well done

Linda Malcolmson retires from Cigi after 30 years

By Lorraine Stevenson May 22, 2013

Colleagues are lining up to bid farewell to food scientist Linda Malcolmson who retires at the end of May with the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) — and it’s a long line. In a career spanning 30 years, including 15 as Cigi’s manager of special crops, oilseeds and pulses, Malcolmson has worked with a plethora

News

McConnell 4-H Beef Club stands the test of time

The southwestern Manitoba club has been active since 1922, making it the oldest club in Canada

By Lorraine Stevenson May 22, 2013

In 1922, a teacher in McConnell duly recorded the reason for so many empty desks in her classroom by writing “Boys and Girls Club” beside the names of those absent. Now 91 years young, McConnell Beef Club is the longest continuously active club anywhere in Canada — even surviving its namesake. McConnell is officially listed

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock Markets, US Markets

LIVESTOCK-US live cattle futures sag ahead of USDA report

By Reuters May 18, 2013

* Cattle data seen neutral to futures on Monday * Feeders drop in tandem with live cattle futures * Fund selling, pig disease guide CME hogs lower By Theopolis Waters CHICAGO, May 17 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Friday as traders adjusted positions ahead of the U.S. Department of

News

Russet Burbank replacement proves elusive

By Gord Gilmour May 17, 2013

When American self-taught botanist Luther Burbank turned his attention to the humble potato in the 1870s, he didn’t have much to work with. Originally from South America, European varieties of the starchy tuber that grew well in the challenging climate of New England and Canada were tasteless at best, and unpalatable at worst. The varieties,

Opinion

A powerful engine for growth

By Laura Rance-Unger April 26, 2013

Researchers have discovered an environmentally sustainable instrument that could increase world food production by 30 per cent, but they’ve been having a tough time getting it commercialized. Is it a plant with a novel trait, or a new herbicide perhaps, bogged down by excessive regulations or those silly activists? Or maybe it’s a new type

Hogs, News

Pilot Mound prosciutto wins gold at food fight

By Lorraine Stevenson April 26, 2013

Thin slivers of dry-cured ham passed the ultimate taste test, earning its creator a grand prize of $10,000 at the Great Manitoba Food Fight April 18. Clinton Cavers used recipes borrowed from his Italian friends to create the gold-medal-winning ‘old world recipe’ prosciutto, made from pork raised outdoors and processed in a meat shop on

Crops, Weather

Environmental change triggers rapid evolution

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 26, 2013

A University of Leeds-led study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of years. Instead, researchers found significant genetically transmitted changes in laboratory populations of soil mites in just 15 generations, leading to a doubling of the age at which the mites reached

Livestock, News, Weather

Deep snow, late spring equal a bad year for deer

By Daniel Winters April 26, 2013

April is the cruellest month, as poet T.S. Eliot grimly observed. For whitetail deer, this year’s longer winter and higher snow levels has been especially hard, says the wildlife branch of Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship. Drivers may have noticed large herds of them hanging around in ditches even in broad daylight. Deep snow is

Dairy cattle, International news, News

Step by step, Kenyan farmers are improving their lot

By Tamara Leigh April 26, 2013

The farms seem impossibly small and the challenges overwhelmingly huge, but Kenyans are  creating marketing chains, improving productivity and even doing value added

Kenya’s story is a familiar one in African agriculture: Small farms, a great need for more production, and yet a high amount of post-harvest waste — often because farmers simply can’t get their product to market. But things are changing. “Kenyans need to do it themselves,” says Rien Geuze, agribusiness adviser for Agriterra, a Dutch

Beef cattle, Livestock, News, Other livestock

France tops EU for levels of horsemeat found in beef products

By Charlie Dunmore April 26, 2013

France found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other European Union country, results of official DNA tests ordered in the wake of the scandal showed, with more than one in every eight samples testing positive. Announcing the results April 16, the European Commission said that for the EU as a whole,

Daily Network News

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea found on a southern Alberta farm

Indonesia opens market to Canadian pork, expands beef access

IGC February report adjusts world data

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