Great Tastes Of Manitoba Now A Hardcover Cookbook

If you’ve enjoyed the “Great Tastes of Manitoba,” the longest running TV cooking show in Manitoba’s history, you’ll love this latest venture – a 20th anniversary hardcover cookbook entitled Great Tastes of Manitoba – Celebrating delicious, local food. This new book features more than 85 recipes, along with stunning photography and local tidbits from the

Functional Food Business A Tough Sell

“I think we’ll all say that the commercialization piece has been the slowest to happen.” – LEE ANNE MURPHY, CO-ORDINATOR OF THE MANITOBA AGRI-HEALTH RESEARCH NETWORK (MAHRN) Scott Sigvaldason sold part of the family’s 106-year-old farm, rented out the rest and invested about $800,000 of his own money to develop a product that could provide


Sumner Leaves Manitoba Pulse Growers Association

Chris Sumner stepped down as executive director of the Manitoba Pulse Growers Association (MPGA) June 1 to be news director for Golden West Radio’s two stations in Winkler, CKMW and The Eagle. Sumner star ted with the MPGA in February 2008. Sumner began his career in radio in 2000, becoming Golden West Radio’s farm broadcaster

Industry Leader Looks Back On 30 Years Of Bean Industry Growth

“It’s a great feeling.” – JACK FROESE, MPGA It’s the colour that keeps Jack Froese in the business of growing pulse crops. Just as golden kernels give delight to a corn grower, so the sight of bright-red, white, brown and black beans flowing into a combine hopper inspires Froese. “It’s a great feeling,” he says.


Bean Contracts In 2009 Slow To Come

“No one wants to take a long position.” – HARVEY FENSKE, VITERRA Everything is in place for the 2009 edible bean crop except one thing: production contracts. They’re unusually late this year. Typically, bean buyers begin issuing contracts around mid-January. But as of last week, contracts for the 2009 edible bean crop were only rumours.

Special crops symposium

There’s a new website available for producers to view information related to the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium next Feb. 11 and 12 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. The new website, www.manitobaspecialcrops.ca, features details of the symposium organized annually by the Manitoba Corn Growers Association (MCGA), Manitoba Pulse Growers Association (MPGA), and National Sunflower Association of