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Depression Seminars Draw Small Audiences

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“People don’t want to be perceived to be associated with depression.” – GERRY FRIESEN Poor attendance at two recent rural workshops on depression emphasizes the need to explode taboos about openly discussing mental illness, organizers say. Fewer than a dozen people in each case attended public meetings in Morris and Arborg last week to talk
Hogs, Livestock

Supply Management For Livestock Mulled

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“You can do it but it’s really complicated.” – PETER CLARK, TRADE LAWYER The financial crisis in the cattle and hog sectors has some producers uttering two words out loud that they would never previously have whispered in the dark: supply management. The question heard at farm meetings and in coffee shops is: would it
Livestock

Livestock Producers To Receive Free On-Farm Veterinary Visits

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When’s the last time you had a veterinarian onfarm to discuss your production practices? Manitoba veterinarians are pleased to participate in new federal-provincial programs that offer the province’s livestock producers on-farm herd assessments paid for by the Growing Forward Food Safety Program for Farms. These programs, developed in conjunction with livestock producer groups and Manitoba
Livestock, News

In Briefs, continued from page 2

MASC supports growing projects: Starting this year, the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corp. will waive hail insurance premiums for the maximum available coverage (currently $150 per acre) on up to 160 acres of land per eligible Canadian Foodgrains Bank project in Manitoba. A project must have an AgriInsurance contract to sign up for hail insurance and
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New Program Insures Pastures For Grazing Days

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“This is a good step forward for the industry.” – GREG JOHNSON, MCPA Anew crop insurance program announced Jan. 19 will give Manitoba cattle producers an innovative way to protect their livestock from feed shortages. The program will insure pastures for a guaranteed number of days for grazing. Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation will launch a
Livestock, News

Interlake Rancher Calls For Cyanide Gun Option

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“After 200 contacts with them, it became obvious that no matter how many hoops we jumped through, they were not going to restore the registration.” – JACK DUBOIS The wolf predation problem in some parts of Manitoba’s Interlake has some ranchers calling for the reintroduction of cyanide guns. At the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association annual
Livestock, News

Fox In Charge Of The MCPA

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Pledging to bring a cow-calf producer’s perspective to the top job at the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association, Major Jay Fox was voted president at the recent 31st annual general meeting. “We’re going to focus on traceability, and make sure that it stays simplified. We’re also going to make sure that our cattle producers have access
Livestock

McDonald’s VP Hears Ranchers’ Beefs

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The first rule of marketing is to know who the customer is and what they want. In the cattle business, that’s the buyers of burger meat, because up to 60 per cent of every steer that goes down the kill chute is eventually sold as hamburger. Out of last year’s beef crop, some 64 million
Livestock, News

What’s Up – for Dec. 17, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Dec. 16-17 – Manitoba Cattle Producers Association annual general meeting, Victoria Inn, 3550 Victoria Ave., Brandon. For more info visit www.mcpa.net. 2010 Jan. 19-21 – Manitoba Ag Days, Keystone Centre, Brandon. For more info call 204-571-6566 or visit agdays.com.Jan. 19-21 – Red River Basin Land and
Livestock

What’s Up – for Dec. 10, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Dec. 11 – Crop Research Organization of Portage (CROP) annual meeting, 3 to 6 p. m., Portage Fair Board office, Island Park, Portage la Prairie. Supper included. For more info call MAFRI in Portage at 204-239-3352. Dec. 14 – MAFRI age verification and premises ID “how-to”

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