Feedlot Charged Fourth Time

Just off the Trans-Canada, about eight miles east of Carberry, there’s a small, black gully. Recently it was dry. According to Donna and Peter Pingert, who together run a cattle feedlot surrounded by windbreak fences underneath a tall blue silo further up the gently sloping hill, the gully runs for about three days every spring

Reporters Take A Peek Inside A Culled Elk

“Once in a while we get some large ones. When you cut it open, you see that the inside is much like the cream filling of a doughnut. It’s just disgusting. It’s offyellowy white, gooey, hideous stuff.” – Ken Kingdon Of the 28 elk killed this spring in Riding Mountain National Park, all have so


Index – for Mar. 25, 2010

Tributes/Memory Announcements Airplanes Alarms & Security Systems ANTIQUES Antiques For Sale Antique Equipment Antique Vehicle Antiques Wanted Arenas AUCTION SALES BC Auction AB Auction Peace AB Auction North AB Auction Central AB Auction South SK Auction MB Auction Parkland MB Auction Westman MB Auction Interlake MB Auction Red River Auction Various U. S. Auctions Auction

Brewer, Farmers Team Up

Beer was flowing freely at the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) recently in celebration of a unique project that’s putting more money in malting barley growers’ pockets, encouraging sustainable production and improving a brewers’ beer and bottom line. Don’t fret, the bill won’t be coming off farmers’ final payments. A keg of “Biggar Beer” was donated

Potential Benefits From Livestock ID

Here in Canada, we’re enhancing our livestock identification programs. Individual cattle ID with radio frequency eartags (RFID), age verification, premise ID, animal movement records – about the only thing that isn’t planned is a GPS locator attached to each individual animal. Incredibly, American efforts for a National Animal Identification System are back to Square 1.


Farm King Advertising supplement Farm King PT high-clearance sprayers

When selecting a personal pick-up you can be forgiven for adding a few bells and whistles that don’t provide a direct economic benefit. But good farm managers can’t afford to carry that idea too far when making business decisions. Every dollar invested in grain production equipment needs to pay a dividend. Choosing farm machinery that

In Brief… – for Feb. 11, 2010

New president: Gerald Grandmont of Leo’s Sales and Service Ltd., in Winnipeg, Manitoba was installed as president of the Canada West Equipment Dealers Association at the Canada West Annual Meeting Jan. 29. Leo’s Sales and Service Ltd., represents a complete line of Case IH lawn, garden, and farm equipment to the agricultural and consumer market.

Strip Tillage Touted As Beneficial For Row Crops

“To me, it’s a real nice compromise.” – GREG ENDRES, NDSU Row crop farmers who want to switch from conventional tillage but not to zero till may find a middle ground with strip tillage. Strip tillage is a system which allows growers to seed directly into a prepared seedbed while still retaining crop residue on


Government Must Open Purse Strings, Says CCIA Chair

“…at the end of the day we have to decide what benefits are we getting out of this? Where is it going to get us? How much is it going to cost? …Because it is going to cost a lot, a lot more than the government thinks.” – Steve Primrose The deadlines for implementing the

New Centre To Connect People With The Farm

From the soil to the supper plate. A new facility at the University of Manitoba will give non-farmers a better connection with agriculture, food and the people who deal in both. The building under construction at the university’s Glenlea Research Station will be an interactive interpretive centre for the agri-food industry, with virtual displays and