Proudly Canadian
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Sitting in the yard or field for an extra year has likely changed the feed value
Staying small has benefits in the farming world: less costs, more time and greater agility
High school students are being encouraged to pursue a life in agriculture
If tillage kill rate averages only 69 per cent, that still leaves plenty for next year
Increasing farm cash receipts don’t tell the whole story, as the cost of inputs like fuel and fertilizer continue to rise
Farm cash receipts are up in Manitoba for the first nine months of 2013. Way up. According to numbers released by Statistics Canada, Manitoba has seen an increase of 14.7 per cent or $500 million — the largest increase in Canada — over the same period last year. Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled
A look back in time on Manitoba's escarpment — and a vision of what the future could be
Dale and Caroline Steppler’s farm on the Manitoba Escarpment was shaped by glaciers, but today the challenge is keeping nutrients from running down to Lake Winnipeg
In an abandoned shale pit a busload of muddied-shoed soil scientists from across Canada and beyond peer back millions of years into the geological history of this part of the Manitoba Escarpment west of Miami. Marine dinosaur fossils are routinely discovered nearby in the bentonite clay formed from prehistoric volcanic ash. They once swam in
