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Fair Food, Circus Fare – for Aug. 19, 2010

By Alan Guebert August 19, 2010

As the county and state fair season spreads across America, farmers, ranchers and producer groups from Maryland and Montana will cook rib-eyes, whip up omelettes, grill chicken, barbecue pork steaks, butter sweet corn and pour thick milkshakes for their non-farming customers from Baltimore to Billings and nearly everywhere in between. This fresh, wholesome goodness will

Livestock

Park Area Farmers Sought For Direct-Marketing Initiative

By Lorraine Stevenson July 1, 2010

Aplan to link farmers offering local food products for sale and people who live in or visit the communities around Riding Mountain National Park aims to bring more dollars to those communities. Earlier this month staff with the Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve, made up of 15 municipalities that surround the park, put out the call

Country Crossroads

NDP Says Canada Needs Food Security Policy

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 1, 2010

Canadians are looking to their government for a comprehensive food strategy to protect our food security and sovereignty, a report released by the New Democrats June 22 says. The report is based on the “Food for Thought” tour led by Agriculture Critic Alex Atamanenko, which held public forums in 28 communities across the country over

Crops

4-H Stakes Out Urban Turf

By Alex Binkley May 20, 2010

4 -H is looking to urban areas and the Aboriginal community to replenish its depleted membership, the chief executive officer of the Canadian 4-H Council told the Commons agriculture committee May 5. Mike Nowosad said 4-H is reaching out into urban centres to teach people about agriculture because there’s interest there. “We’re going to be

Opinion

Farmers Are In This Together

By Kate Storey April 8, 2010

It might be time to start paying attention. Consumers are beginning to use their dollar power to drive agriculture and we farmers don’t know where that will take us. Ihave no argument with the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council. My goal is always for farmers to work together to find innovative solutions as the food world

Country Crossroads

Nutrition Month Theme Urges Canadians To Learn About Food Sources

By Lorraine Stevenson March 18, 2010

Dietitians of Canada’s National Nutrition Month Campaign 2010 offers these suggestions for celebrating food from field to table. … In your community Start, support or get involved with local community garden projects. Work with your local school board to create ways to showcase local foods either in the classroom or in the school cafeterias. Ask

News

Homegrown “Fiction” Charms Crowd

By Daniel Winters March 11, 2010

You’ve heard about local food. How about local laughs? For three years now, Anna Glover and Ellen Martens have been harvesting small town anecdotes and yarns from local people, and creatively processing them into a comedy routine called the “Ellen and Anna Show.” At the recent Farm Focus 2010 in Boissevain, the pair sat in

Livestock, News

Eat Local To Sustain Farmers, Conference Told

By Ron Friesen February 25, 2010

Lori Stahlbrand is on a 96 per cent mission. It’s estimated only four per cent of the food Canadians consume is grown and sold through local farmers’ markets, community-supported agriculture projects and the like. The rest comes from mainstream retailers, mostly supermarkets. As a result, there’s a huge potential market for the local food economy

Livestock

Farm Leader Slaughters Pig At Market

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 17, 2009

ANew Brunswick director of the National Farmers Union in New Brunswick hauled a pig to town and slaughtered it at a local farmers’ market Dec. 5. Jean-Eudes Chiasson, brought one of his pigs to market in Dieppe, where he set up signs in French, stressing the desperate circumstances now faced by family farmers. He then

News

Food Processors Anxious To See Buy Local Program Roll Out

By Lorraine Stevenson December 10, 2009

The Manitoba Food Processors Association is welcoming a provincial commitment in last week’s throne speech to launch a “buy local” program. “We’ve been pushing for this for literally eight to 10 years,” said Dave Shambrock, MFPA’s executive director. He also heads up an ad hoc committee that began meeting nearly two years ago to plan

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

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