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Home Run Hero

November 17, 2011

But Joe Wiwchar s first recollections of baseball are as a city kid playing pickup and 500 as a kid, and riding his bike across Winnipeg to play on a little league team in the city s West End. He started coaching girls softball at the age of 17 in the 1950s and Wiwchar has

Livestock

Viterra To Resell Esso Fuels On Canadian Prairies

November 17, 2011

REUTERS / Viterra Inc., Canada s biggest grain handler, said on Nov. 8 that it has bought Imperial Oil s commercial and farm fuels distribution business in the Prairie provinces. Viterra, which already owns the country s biggest network of country grain elevators, along with port terminals, processing plants and farm retail outlets, will resell

Hogs, Livestock

KAP Uses Winnipeg Sewage Issues To Defend Farm Record

By Allan Dawson November 17, 2011

Unt reated Winnipeg sewage flowing into the Red River and eventually Lake Winnipeg has given Doug Chorney a platform to complain about how hog farmers are unfairly blamed for excessive phosphorus levels in the lake. According to the president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers regulations restricting the construction of new hog barns and the expansion

News

New Vegetable-Processing Plant Putting Down Roots In Portage

By Shannon VanRaes November 10, 2011

Kelly Beaulieu is cultivating more than freshness these days the former agronomist is growing opportunities and sowing the seeds of success in her hometown of Portage la Prairie. The entrepreneur has spent the last year creating Prairie Garden Puree at the Manitoba Food Development Centre, a base ingredient for food production. This is something that

Country Crossroads

Preserving History On A Shoestring

By Lorraine Stevenson November 10, 2011

They preserve the past and they re open for the present, but the future is uncertain for many of this province s smaller museums. Filled as they are with local collections of artifacts, many run on near empty, with shoestring budgets and scant volunteer labour. The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is grappling with budgetary constraints and

News

Manitoba Agricultural Museum Faces Cuts

By Lorraine Stevenson November 3, 2011

Volunteers managing the Manitoba Agricultural Museum, home of Canada s largest collection of vintage agricultural equipment, says it faces an uncertain future as they grapple with a cut in operating funds. Although they ve known for a while the cuts that took effect last January were coming, it s been tough to come up with

Opinion

Politicians Aren’t As Interested In Lake Manitoba Flood

By Luc Gamachemacgregor October 27, 2011

I am not a farmer and I don t live along Lake Manitoba. However, after reading Sandi Knight s article in the Oct. 20 issue of theManitoba Co-operator,I decided to take her up on her offer of a guided tour of the area around her family s farm. Not knowing where the cultivated land was

Country Crossroads

Another Flood Casualty

By Donna Gamache October 27, 2011

This summer has been a bust for several Manitoba provincial parks as some were unable to open due to the devastating floods. Others, such as Spruce Woods Provincial Park, opened on a very limited scale, but I hadn t realized the extent of the damage there until just recently when my husband and I spent

Cereals, News

Ottawa Accused Of Revising Wheat Board History

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2011

Regardless of how western farmers feel about the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk today, the vast majority strongly supported it when it was created in 1943 and for years after, says Duke University history professor, John Herd Thompson. The Manitoba-born academic accuses Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz of trying

Cereals, News

Former CWB Minister Reg Alcock Passes

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 20, 2011

Reg Alcock, the Winnipeg member of Parliament who led then-prime minister Paul Martin s political defence of the Canadian Wheat Board, died early last Friday of a reported heart attack at age 63. Alcock, the MP for the Winnipeg South riding from 1993 to 2006, served in Martin s cabinet from late 2003 to early

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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