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Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

The Leadership Gap

The Manitoba Canola Growers Association president has a new crop he wants to see researched and developed with some of the $2.4 million it collected through farmer checkoffs last year. No, not a new type of canola. Young leaders. The association has just recently completed an extensive review and rewrite of its bylaws. There is
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

Eat At Home For Improved Nutrition And Cost Savings

Fewer than half of Canadians eat more than one cooked meal per day and 33 per cent of Canadians eat take-out at least once per week, according to research done by the Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition and Dietitians of Canada. Our tendency to reach for convenience foods either in the frozen food section
Crops, Oilseeds

Investment Tax Credits Available

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Producers are entitled to obtain taxable benefits on canola checkoff deductions that are used to support research and development. Individual producers are entitled to claim investment tax credits at 20 per cent and the corporate producer rate for Canadian Controlled Private Corporations (CCPC) is 35 per cent. For the Manitoba Canola Growers Association, only part
Crops, Oilseeds

How Much Are You Losing?

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Canola growers lose up to five bushels per acre out the back of their combines. That skims a lot of profit off the top and adds to volunteer canola costs in following years. Manitoba Canola Growers Association and the Canola Council of Canada will host a Combine Performance Clinic at the Keystone Centre in Brandon,
Crops, Oilseeds

New Canola Variety Testing Trial Announced

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Canada’s canola industry is launching a new variety testing program to replace one that was cancelled a year ago. Called a “new-generation” canola variety program, it contains some major changes from a previous one which collapsed because of seed company dissatisfaction with it. One difference is that growers will now partially fund the program. Previously,
News, Oilseeds

What’s Up – for Feb. 17, 2011

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] or call 204-944-5762. Feb. 22:“Record Keeping for Organic Growers, Part 2,” a Canadian Organic Growers webinar. For more info visit www.cog.ca/shop, click on “Events,” then click on “Webinars.” Feb. 23:Managing your Woodlot: Seminars, Baldur Memorial Hall. For more info call MAFRI at 204-741-0490. Feb. 24:“Crop Planning for Organic
News, Oilseeds

What’s Up – for Feb. 10, 2011

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] or call 204-944-5762. Feb. 15:“Organic Livestock Transition,” a Canadian Organic Growers webinar. For more info visit www.cog.ca/shop, click on “Events,” then click on “Webinars.” Feb. 22:“Record Keeping for Organic Growers, Part 2,” a Canadian Organic Growers webinar. For more info visit www.cog.ca/shop, click on “Events,” then click on
News, Oilseeds, Pulses

What’s Up – for Feb. 3, 2011

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] or call 204-944-5762. Feb. 4:Low-stress pig-handling workshop, Mennonite Heritage Museum, Steinbach. For more info call Ron Bazylo at 204-572-5282 or Robyn Harte at 204-945-5402. Feb. 8:“Record Keeping for Organic Growers, Part 1,” a Canadian Organic Growers webinar. For more info visit www.cog.ca/shop, click on “Events,” then click on
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Jan. 20, 2011

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Vet fined:A Manitoba veterinarian has been fined $10,000 for certifying uninspected cattle for export. Dr. Earl Van Assen pleaded guilty in a Winnipeg court to two counts of contravening the federal Health of Animals Act. Court was told Van Assen submitted certification documents in Feb. 2009 for 42 cows shipped to the United States, stating
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

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If you haven’t started nibbling yet, it won’t be long before Christmas cookies will be here, there, everywhere and completely irresistable. Every family has their favourites. Mine is my sister’s cherry-centred dainty. They disappear as quickly as she sets them out. Their only rival is my Mom-in- law’s substantial slices of sweet shortbread which are

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