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Proposed Rules For U.S. Meat Industry

November 18, 2010

The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, which polices the U.S. meat and livestock industry, has proposed new rules designed to help producers compete in the marketplace and to assist the agency in prosecuting violators. Public comment on these rules concludes on Nov. 22. Many of the largest U.S. livestock trade organizations are opposed to

Crops

Private Equity Sees “Buckets Of Money” In Water Buys

By Laura Macinnis November 18, 2010

Water scarcity will generate big returns for the irrigation sector once climate change and population growth take their toll on farming, private equity managers said Nov. 9. Asked at an agriculture investing conference whether it is possible to make money from water, typically a public good rather than a bankable commodity, Judson Hill of NGP

Country Crossroads

Province Begins Program To Honour 125-Year-Old Farms

By Manitoba Agriculture November 11, 2010

The Manitoba government has launched a new Heritage Farms designation in celebration of farm families who have maintained continuous production for 125 or more years. The first family to receive a sign from Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers was Betty and Walter Heaman who farm northwest of Virden. “Families like the Heamans

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy Farm Numbers Shrinking

By Ron Friesen October 21, 2010

The number of dairy farmers in Manitoba continues to fall rapidly. The province currently has 354 registered milk producers, seven per cent fewer than in 2009-10, according to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. The rate of loss is steeper than in the two previous years. The number of producers declined by four per cent in 2008-09

Livestock

Deal To Protect Langford Community Pasture Land Inked

By Daniel Winters October 14, 2010

Aconservation easement has been inked to protect a portion of the 21,195 acres of native prairie at Langford Community Pasture. That’s good news for the endangered Prairie Skink, Manitoba’s only native lizard; residents of Neepawa, who are in the process of tapping the local aquifer for their water supplies; and about two dozen local ranchers

Dairy cattle, Forages, Livestock, News

U. S. Dairy Producer Survives Ups And Downs Of A Free Market

By Allan Dawson October 7, 2010

Kelsay Dairy farm is big by Canadian standards, milking 450 or so cows, but in these parts it’s a model family farm. There’s an old hip roof barn and a couple old-fashioned silver-sided silos, which urbanites can take pictures of each October when the Kelsays open up their farm to city folk from nearby Indianapolis.

News

Farmers Open Their Gates Sunday – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Lorraine Stevenson September 16, 2010

Farmers who’ve agreed to participate in Manitoba’s first Open Farm Day will be watching their driveways for arriving visitors this Sunday. Last week Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) extended an invitation to all Manitobans to spend Sept. 19 dropping in to see some 35 farms whose owners agreed to open their gates to

Opinion

Advice For Young Farmers – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Kevin Hursh July 29, 2010

The opinion is of ten expressed that young people don’t want to farm. That isn’t really the case. Farming appeals to a lot of young people, but they usually don’t have the capital available to start even a modest operation or else they’ve examined the financial returns and aren’t willing to accept the risk. “There

Country Crossroads, Forages

RREA RELEASE

June 17, 2010

The Red River Exhibition Association (RREA) announc ed June 7 that the multi-generational Chapman clan from Virden has been chosen as its 2010 Farm Family of the Year. “The Chapman family exemplifi es the qualities recognized by this annual award, established in 1966 to profile the diversity of primary agriculture in Manitoba as well as

News

Land-Grab Warning

By Allan Dawson June 10, 2010

Canadian farmland is not immune to the global land grab that’s underway as corporations and countries position themselves for the prospect of future food shortages, the National Farmers Union says. “We may be on the verge of a new system wherein those who work the land do not own it – a situation that would

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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