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Two rural properties took the brunt of Manitoba's most recent violent weather episode
The Farm Machinery and Equipment Act requires dealers to deliver on time and back what they sell
Using forage to finish cattle takes a strong focus on everything from cattle genetics to forage quality
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This year’s Farm Safety Zone offers short safety awareness presentations, incentive programs and even a new app for improving workplace safety
Take Time to Farm Safely is the theme of this year’s Farm Safety Zone at Manitoba Ag Days. SAFE Farms, Manitoba Hydro, Manitoba Farm & Rural Support Services, Manitoba Farmers with Disabilities, and Prairie Mountain Health are among the Farm Safety Zone partners. Manitoba Hydro will feature two of its recent farm safety programs. The
Multi-generational Sikh immigrant family eager to start farming in southwestern Manitoba
A complicated family feud over an inheritance has left the courts to decide whether cattle were deliberately starved
Arancher accused of deliberately starving cattle to death over an inheritance feud has pleaded to 13 offences under the Animal Care Act. With tears welling up in his eyes, Thomas Jeffery McLean, 49, told provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie last week he was “ashamed” of his actions. Harvie delayed sentencing, seeking time to consider
A university instructor is turning his nano farm into a living laboratory for sustainable farming systems
I spoke to a number of young farmers recently and learned that they are questioning the business decision that every farmer makes every year: Hold $2 million in assets, invest another $250,000 cash in a crop in order to get $60,000 profit. And that is if everything goes right, which it typically doesn’t. What isSpeakers at Canada Grains Council say too many farmers have forgotten that high prices eventually fall
Watch out! The five-year run of high grain prices is going to end — possibly sooner than later — and those producers who are in denial could be in for a painful reckoning, attendees at the recent Canada Grains Council annual meeting were warned. “There is a lot of optimism out there and a lot
