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What’s Up – for Jan. 21, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Jan. 25 – Interlake Beef and Forage Seminar, 9 a. m., Eriksdale Recreation Centre. Registration $10, lunch included. For more info call MAFRI in Lundar at 204-762-5649. Jan. 26 – Parkland Ranchers’ Seminar, 9:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., Community Hall, Ste. Rose du Lac.
Livestock, News

Interlake Rancher Calls For Cyanide Gun Option

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“After 200 contacts with them, it became obvious that no matter how many hoops we jumped through, they were not going to restore the registration.” – JACK DUBOIS The wolf predation problem in some parts of Manitoba’s Interlake has some ranchers calling for the reintroduction of cyanide guns. At the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association annual
Opinion

Dawn Of The Decade Doggerel

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The holiday season is over, I hope you weren’t naughty Now it’s 2010, the end of the decade called “aughties” So it’s that time again, to which you all look ahead-fully Our year-end review in verse which rhymes dreadfully How time flies; I recall my first-ever annual bad-versification Cheered the end
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Throne Speech Recycles Ongoing Farm Programs

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Last week’s Manitoba throne speech spoke a fair bit about agriculture but contained few actual new initiatives for farmers. Instead, the speech to mark the opening of the new legislative session was mainly a rehash of programs already ongoing, according to observers. “A lot of what was in the throne speech was actually reannouncements, not
Country Crossroads

Local Literary “Snacks” Make Fine Gifts

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~ ENRIQUE JARDIEL PONCELA When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Gifts of books are always well received by family and friends at Christmas. Here is a sampling of recently published rural Manitoba writers whose books you might want on your gift list. Many of these authors are
News

In Brief… – for Dec. 3, 2009

Resort rapped: The federal Competition Bureau has sanctioned the Manitoba-based Elkhorn Ranch & Resort Ltd. for how it runs its promotional campaigns. The bureau’s investigation concluded the company had run contests without fair disclosure of accurate odds of winning and without ensuring that winners were selected on a random basis. As well, winners were led
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Manitoba Markets Get Government Boost

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The Farmers Market Association of Manitoba Co-op Inc. (FMAM) received an early Christmas present last week – a $450,000 federal grant for market site improvements. The funding for upgrades such as canopies and walkways, signage, shelter belts and other fixtures, comes through the federal Community Adjustment Fund (CAF) and is part of the Conservative government’s
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KAP Delegates Critical Of Province

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“Some people are having some challenges and they want to blame me and I can live with that.” – ROSANN WOWCHUK Rank and file delegates verbally pummelled the Manitoba government at the Oct. 15 Keystone Agricultural Producers meeting, accusing it of being indifferent to outright hostile towards agriculture. “I can’t understand what the government is
Crops

Drainage Disparity Irks Interlake Farmers

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“I know some of our guys here think we’re not getting a fair shake and we’re being neglected.” – HAROLD FOSTER Some Interlake farmers don’t think they’re getting a fair shake when it comes to drainage. The Manitoba government, through its Disaster Financial Aid program, kicked in $1.9 million to help several rural municipalities in
Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba Farmers Still Have Lots Of Crop To Harvest

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“We had four months of spring – April, May, June and July,” he said. “Then we had one month of summer, that would be September. And now we’ve gone straight into winter.” – Calvin Gust If you’ve still got crop out, you’re not alone. Two-thirds of the delegates attending the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) meeting

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