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An inventory of the province’s wetlands is one project receiving support

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 6, 2013

The University of Manitoba’s Watershed Systems Research Centre is receiving $50,000 to launch a water management pilot project aimed at storing run-off water on agricultural land as part of a new suite of programs aimed at improving water quality. Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh announced last week it is tripling funding for the

Crops, News, Weather

Water cycles on the great plains have changed

By Shannon VanRaes November 9, 2012

A water crisis isn’t coming. It’s already here. And unless action is taken, Robert Sandford says the hydrological changes the Lake Winnipeg Basin is experiencing will bankrupt the province. “More extreme weather events are clearly already a reality,” said the author and adviser to the United Nations Water for Life Decade. Rising global temperatures have

News

Professor says more must be done to prevent repeat of Lake Manitoba flood damage

By Daniel Winters April 30, 2012

Scott Forbes estimates flood damage at $2 billion and says most of it  could have been prevented if there had been better drainage

Like the problem child in the family, Lake Winnipeg gets all the attention over its phosphorus problems, while its well-behaved smaller sister to the west tends to be ignored. Or at least that was the case for Lake Manitoba until last year, said Scott Forbes, a professor of biology at the University of Winnipeg, who

Hogs, Livestock, News

Researcher says blaming farmers for phosphorus in Lake Winnipeg is overly simplistic

By Shannon VanRaes February 15, 2012

Recent flooding has driven Lake Winnipeg’s already high nutrient levels even higher, says Michael Stainton of Freshwater Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada. “I think we’ve demonstrated that the major change we’re seeing in the lake is driven by changes in the flow of the Red River,” Stainton told hog producers at the 2012 Swine Seminar

News

Ottawa To Spend $400,000 In Latest Effort To Protect Lake Winnipeg

By Daniel Winters October 27, 2011

The federal government will spend $398,050 for nine new community projects in its latest round of funding for the Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund. The Lake Winnipeg Basin Initiative will deliver real results to help clean up and rehabilitate Lake Winnipeg, said James Bezan, MP for Selkirk-Interlake, speaking on behalf of Federal Environment Minister Peter

News

Flooding Continues To Bog Down Producers

By Shannon VanRaes September 29, 2011

On a quiet stretch of road by North Shoal Lake, Howard Hilstrom pulls over to talk flooding with a group of neighbours. The flood isn t over for us, it s just as bad as it was this spring, said the cattle producer and former member of parliament. He noted three provincial roads in the

Dairy cattle, Forages, Hogs, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Letter Draws Support

August 25, 2011

Concerned about increasing regulation, several of the province’s commodity organizations have joined the Manitoba Pork Council’s public campaign to defend its nutrient management practices. In a full-page ad in theWinnipeg Winnipeg Free Press,the council says hog producers are already subject to more environmental regulation than any other agricultural industry. It says a province-wide ban on

Opinion

Letters – for Aug. 11, 2011

August 11, 2011

This letter is in response to John Fefchak’s June 16 letter in theManitoba Co-operator. Your comment is actually quite in line with the premier of Manitoba. I really have to ask you what you are doing with your human waste? Doesn’t that also go down the river into Lake Winnipeg? Our animal waste goes onto

News

Water Levels On All Rivers And Lakes At Or Near Crest As Of July 16

By Lorraine Stevenson July 21, 2011

Water levels on rivers and lakes have crested or are near so in all parts of the province, but the impact of the 2011 flood will be felt for weeks and months to come, say those in affected areas. Darryl Jackson, mayor of Souris, said last week that while Souris River levels have started to

News

New Municipal Waste Standards

By Lorraine Stevenson July 14, 2011

The Village of Dunnottar started testing a system that filters phosphorus and nitrogen out of municipal waste water in 2008. Outflows of the phosphorus were reduced by 62 per cent, and similarly for nitrogen over the past two years. If the community gets the green light from the province to fully implement this system, officials

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

Tag Archives Lake Winnipeg

An inventory of the province’s wetlands is one project receiving support

Water cycles on the great plains have changed

Professor says more must be done to prevent repeat of Lake Manitoba flood damage

Researcher says blaming farmers for phosphorus in Lake Winnipeg is overly simplistic

Ottawa To Spend $400,000 In Latest Effort To Protect Lake Winnipeg

Flooding Continues To Bog Down Producers

Letter Draws Support

Letters – for Aug. 11, 2011

Water Levels On All Rivers And Lakes At Or Near Crest As Of July 16

New Municipal Waste Standards

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