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The Manitoba Canola Growers Association hosted the third annual CanoLAB at Brandon Assiniboine Community College last week. Area producers and agronomists worked through a number of hands-on workshops to sharpen their canola production proficiencies.  photo:

Exploring canola diagnostics, diseases and deficiencies

CanoLAB participants get a hands-on demonstration  of the most recent production practices

By Jennifer Paige March 19, 2015

Canola and crop production experts provided area producers and agronomists with a one-day, hands-on workshop last week, providing an opportunity to sharpen their production practices for the coming growing season. “We hope that workshops like this will assist the province’s producers and agronomists as they look for ways to innovate and meet market demands. A

Crops

Manitoba canola pest lab backed for equipment, research

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 30, 2015

A new Manitoba lab with federal, provincial and canola industry backing has been opened with the goal of staying a step ahead of canola diseases such as clubroot and verticillium wilt. The federal and Manitoba governments on Thursday announced $969,000 for equipment, including a polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) machine, and $250,000 for research at the

Recipe Swap

The cure and comfort of soup

Recipe Swap: Hearty Chicken Soup, and Easy Chicken Noodle Soup

By Lorraine Stevenson January 30, 2015

Cough, cough, cough! That’s the sound of January. Sit through any meeting, classroom or other public gathering and you’ll hear it. Maybe we’re the one coughing. We should stay home, say health authorities, because it’s when we insist on, cough, trying, sneeze, to go about our regular routines, cough, that we spread our germs around.

Local news, Opinion

Youth engaged in world food security issues

A Manitoba high school student outlines what he learned from attending the recent World Food Prize Global Youth Institute Conference in Des Moines

By Carson Rodgers November 19, 2014

Attending the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, October 15-18, 2014 was an amazing opportunity. Through loads of very informative and thought-provoking information, the intense three days were an eye-opener to me about the world food production situation. This was the first time Canadian youth had participated in the event.

Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Food banks want that garden overload

Recipe Swap: Summer Beet Salad and Carefree Cabbage Roll Casserole

By Lorraine Stevenson September 11, 2014

Do you have a garden full of vegetables you can’t possibly use? That heady excitement that goes with garden centre visits in spring often leads to surplus vegetables in fall you can’t even give away. Everyone else has the same problem. But you can give them away. Your local food bank will be glad to

News, Oilseeds

Clubroot infections found in Manitoba mild so far

Keeping this serious  canola disease under control requires early detection, which can be revealed through soil testing

By Allan Dawson August 28, 2014

Clubroot has been detected in 13 Manitoba fields since 2009, but all have been mild infections, says Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD). “What we’re finding in Manitoba right now is clubroot at very low levels,” Kubinec told the Westman Crop Talk webinar Aug. 20. MAFRD released a map

Crops, Oilseeds

Consumer demand and farmer needs not always compatible

Those in the business of agricultural advocacy say that consumers who oppose some  biotechnologies are ignorant of the facts

By Shannon VanRaes April 7, 2014

Getting your message across about agriculture isn’t about spewing out data — it’s about connecting with people, a Winnipeg seminar organized by the Manitoba Canola Growers Association was told. “We in agriculture have a tendency to always use science, and to always use data, we puke data on people’s shoes frankly, and we wonder why

Crops, Oilseeds

Canola growers debate UPOV ’91

A resolution opposing the treaty was narrowly defeated

By Allan Dawson March 4, 2014

A resolution in favour of the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) opposing Canada’s plan to implement UPOV ’91 was narrowly defeated at the association’s annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb. 18. It took a tie-breaking vote from the MCGA president and meeting chair Ed Rempel to defeat the resolution put forward by Deleau farmer Ian Robson

News, Oilseeds

Agriculture Hall of Fame

Charles John Froebe was a significant force behind the development of cash advance programs

July 18, 2013

There were six Manitoban’s inducted to the Manitoba Agricultural Hall  of Fame July 10. The Co-operator will publish the inductee profiles over the next six weeks.

Charlie Froebe was born at Carman, Man., Nov. 27, 1941. He grew up on the family farm in the Homewood district where he attended grade school and was a member of the Manitoba Sugar Beet 4-H Club. His secondary education was at St. John’s Ravenscourt in Winnipeg and Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois. He

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Leadership takes many forms

By Laura Rance-Unger July 17, 2013

It’s safe to say that Wilf Harder of Lowe Farm and Ernie Sirski of Dauphin have been on different sides of a debate in agriculture a time or two over the years, but there is one thing upon which these farmers do agree. This industry needs more people willing to step up, speak their minds

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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