Zack Koscielny tours visitors through his cover crops and perennial pastures during a field tour in 2022.

Koscielny in as MFGA board chair

Zack Koscielny is one of several more youthful faces chosen for the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association’s incoming board

Zack Koscielny is one of several more youthful faces chosen for the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association’s incoming board.



Aerial photos taken at Ag in Motion 2023 by Dirty T-Shirt Productions

Ag in Motion gains international attention

Western Canadian equipment draws interest for potential international customers

Equipment demonstration is one of the biggest draws of the annual Ag in Motion farm show, and it's bringing interest from potential business in Africa and Europe.


KAP to lobby for farmer well-being licence plates

KAP to lobby for farmer well-being licence plates

Money raised from sale of plates would support Manitoba Farmer Wellness program

Keystone Agricultural Producers plans to lobby the provincial government to allow specialty licence plates that would support mental wellness programs for farmers. A resolution requesting the effort was passed at the organization’s July 24 advisory council meeting. Money raised from the sale of the plates, if approved, would go toward Manitoba Farmer Wellness, which launched in 2022. The program provides




A train of grain cars stops at Cargill's elevator near Nesbitt, Man.

Rail strike still looms as holdup stretches on

Grain industry says delaying what appears to be an inevitable strike isn’t helpful

Teamsters voted to strike in May, but labour action is still in gridlock as both sides wait for Canadian Industrial Relations Board decision.



That’s the problem with the “industrial mind” in today’s agriculture: It floats along on a rising sea of taxpayer money and unaccounted costs to a place where few profit but everyone pays one way or another.

Comment: The actual costs of the ‘industrial mind’

Human ‘cleverness’ can’t outweigh nature, at least not for long

In an essay in his new book, Hogs Are Up, Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute near Salina, Kansas, and a shrewd observer of U.S. agriculture, revisits a speech he gave in Coon Rapids, Iowa, in August 2009 to mark the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous visit to the Roswell Garst farm. During