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Nothing Passé About Old MacDonald’s Approach

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Manitoba’s farm media is full of the same story. The stories have different headlines and characters, but the main issue is as recurring as the beat of a drum. “What’s wrong with Prairie agriculture? What’s wrong with the AgriStability program? What’s happening to commodity, fertilizer, and cattle prices?” Sometimes columnists allude to the problems that
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PFRA Name Retired After 74 Years

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The PFRA, an agency with an acronym synonymous with soil conservation on the Prairies, has quietly been dissolved into a new branch of the federal government. The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration is now part of the Agri-Environment Services Branch within Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, department officials confirmed last week. Jamshed Merchant, the assistant deputy minister
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Corporate Farming Arrives On The Prairies

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“This industry has been looking for additional capital… Agriculture is a great place to be.” – LARRY RUUD, ONE EARTH FARMS Aone-million-acre grain and cattle farm planned by Sprott Resource Corp. represents a fork in the Prairie road for Canadian agriculture, but the super-farm’s president and chief executive says family farms have more to gain
Cereals, Crops

CWB backs organic sector development

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Eight new research and k n owl e d g e -s h a r i n g projects on organic grain production will get a financial boost from the Canadian Wheat Board. The board on Jan. 28 announced a new round of funding worth $200,000 in 2009 through its Organic Sector Market Development Initiative
Forages, Livestock, News

Grazing changes may improve climate

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Simple changes in grazing practices could soak up millions of tonnes of carbon a year, helping fight climate change, improving farm productivity and earning farmers carbon credits, a scientist said Jan. 20. But such measures needed to spread globally to more than 120 million farmers working grazing lands, such as savannah and shrubland, according to
Cereals, Livestock, Livestock Markets

Lots of barley to feed western cattle

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Large domestic feed grain supplies should help underpin the Canadian cattle sector for the time being by giving it a competitive advantage compared to the U. S., according to an industry analyst who thought the Canadian cattle market was looking reasonably well supported heading into the new year. Market analyst Herb Lock of Farm$ense Marketing
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Cyclone damage affects productivity

Tens of thousands of farmers in the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta face the prospect of a thin rice harvest this monsoon season and uncertainty over whether they will be able to plant the vital summer crop. “We cultivated the fields quite late this year and we did not have enough livestock to help us either,” said
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Soil science prof joins Agri-Trend

Soil scientist Geza Racz, a professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and former head of its soil science department, has joined Agri-Trend Agrology as a senior agri-coach. Racz’s fields of expertise and research are in the reactions and fate of various elements in soil – nitrogen, phosphorus and minor elements such as zinc and

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