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Crops Briefs Jan. 5

Canola board elections Staff / Manitoba canola growers elected Huge Drake of Elkhorn, Jack Froese of Winkler, Dale Gryba of Gilbert Plains and Clayton Harder of Winnipeg to represent them on the Manitoba Canola Growers Association board of directors. There were 8,983 ballots mailed out in the election this fall with 1.512 valid envelopes returned.
News

Late Reporter Mourned

briefs staff / The National Farmers Union (NFU) has paid tribute to the late Adrian Ewins, calling him an inspired journalist and a gentleman. Adrian Ewins was always well respected for the integrity and the intelligence he brought to his profession, the association said in a release. Ewins worked as a reporter for the Saskatoon-based
News

Pressing Rural Priorities

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If Portage la Prairie fixed all the sidewalks, roads and water mains it needs to, the city would be $11 million over budget. Now, they’re faced with another bill coming due – the anticipated $25 million it will take over the next five years to meet new provincial regulations for nutrient removal from waste water.
Livestock

Outlook Improving, But Problems Remain, Politicos Tell CFA

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The next few years appear positive for farmers with both crop and livestock prices on the rise, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Farmers have rebounded from the BSE crisis in the beef industry, influenza outbreaks in the poultry sector, widespread bankruptcies among pork farmers and depressed grain prices, he told the annual meeting of the
Opinion

Back To The Data Mine – for Sep. 16, 2010

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Those who feel there’s not much for farmers in Manitoba to laugh about these days need only wait until seeding time next year. Don’t take that as a guarantee that the rain will actually start and stop when and where it’s needed, but rather, that you can expect something funny to land in your mailbox
Beef cattle, Livestock

BIXS System Ready For Prime Time – for Aug. 26, 2010

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CALGARY Ranchers who wondered why they bothered to put RFID tags in their calves’ ears every spring will soon find out the reason. After extensive beta-testing by computer-savvy ranchers this summer, the online record-keeping system called the BIXS, or Beef InfoXchange System, will be ready for launch for the cow-calf sector by September of this
Livestock, News

In Brief… – for Aug. 12, 2010

Bilingual cattle ID: The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) has launched the new French version of the Canadian Livestock Tracking System (CLTS). This bilingual resource is now available online at www.clia.livestockid.ca. The CLTS website will auto detect a computer browser’s language preference. The functionality of the French language version of the CLTS remains the same
News

More Rural Internet Service Promised

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Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has been trying to build up his party’s profile in rural Canada with policy pronouncements on firearms and food policy. He didn’t get much reaction until he announced May 4 that a Liberal government would ensure high-speed Internet service right across Canada. Industry Minister Tony Clement quickly defended the Harper government’s
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weatherfarm from page 1

WeatherFarm , from page 1 Farmers will be able to get WeatherFarm data when visiting AGCanada.comand Producer.com. The CWB and WeatherBug started their network in 2007. The goal was to set up 600 weather stations across the West over three years. The program has exceeded expectations, White said. The CWB has had a weather and
Crops

Upgrade For Weather Station Network’s Capabilities

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The CWB-WeatherBug network across Western Canada already numbers some 650 sites with the incoming data used to predict wheat midge, fusarium and sclerotinia risk. But soon there might be even more information wrung from the raw numbers collected by the network of solar-powered, “micro-weather stations” and put into the hands of farmers, says Guy Ash,

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