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VIDEO: It’s a bird, it’s a person … No! It’s a fruit
Crops, News

VIDEO: It’s a bird, it’s a person … No! It’s a fruit

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes is on assignment at the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists in New Zealand

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It’s furry, brown, delicious and nutritious. But the Kiwi fruit isn’t just a part of the New Zealand psyche, it a big part of the country’s export economy. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes speaks to Shane Max, orchard productivity manager with Zespri about the fruit’s origins and visits Whitehall Fruitpackers, where Mark Gardiner speaks about
VIDEO: Man’s best friend helps maintain biosecurity in New Zealand
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VIDEO: Man’s best friend helps maintain biosecurity in New Zealand

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes on assignment at the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists in New Zealand

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One of Brett Hickman’s duties with New Zealand’s border patrol is on maintaining biosecurity, especially important with travellers attempting to bring in fruit, vegetables or animals. Sniffer dogs – in this case, Kelsie, a beagle puppy in training – are one important tool border patrol uses to prohibit people from bringing items such as these into
Editorial: Positioning to thrive
Dairy cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Positioning to thrive

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Canada’s dairy farmers are wise to tread carefully as they consider how to position their industry in the face of rising imports due to trade and technology. The oh-so-tempting reaction that comes immediately to mind would be to seek replacement of the sector’s protective tariff wall, which is gradually being eroded, with a non-tariff barrier
Jenny Jago of DairyNZ
Dairy cattle, Livestock

VIDEO: Low milk prices means caution when investing in new dairy technology

Expensive improvements could make it hard for New Zealand's dairy producers to stay competitive

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Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes speaks with Jenny Jago, a manager at DairyNZ, on the farm of John Fisher. His operation recently expanded to add 4 robotic milkers on the 80 Hectare farm –located on New Zealand’s North Island, in the Waikato region – where 320 cows are milked each day. A recent and significant drop in
New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser, shown here last November, doesn’t expect a Trans-Pacific trade deal to kill Canada’s supply management systems. (Beehive.govt.nz)
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

TPP not the death of supply management, N.Z. trade chief says

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Hamilton, N.Z. | MCO — Canada’s supply-managed sectors should not worry about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from where New Zealand’s Trade Minister Tim Groser sits. “I can understand why producer groups would wish to perceive this in a different way, but this is not the end of supply management,” he said here Thursday. “I don’t think
VIDEO: What might New Zealand and Manitoba producers have in common?
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VIDEO: What might New Zealand and Manitoba producers have in common?

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes is on assignment at the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists in New Zealand

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Shannon VanRaes of the Manitoba Co-operator is at the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists in Hamilton, New Zealand. Sheep, kiwi, dairy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership are on VanRaes’ agenda as she meets with some of the country’s producers to learn if there’s anything Manitoba producers can learn from New Zealand. Visit the Manitoba Co-operator often as VanRaes’ files videos of
Winnipeg-based pumpkin grower 13-year-old Milan Lukes is eagerly awaiting the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth Weigh-Off on October 3 to find out if he’s got a winning entry this year. This is his third year growing giant pumpkins.
Local news

Pumpkin growers ready to vie for 2015 heavyweight title

Self-professed pumpkin-growing addicts will converge on Roland Oct. 3
 to find out who will be this year’s heavyweight champion

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Milan Lukes has crawled inside the pumpkins he grows. He fits in the cavity because he’s only 13 years old. He dug into them last year and in 2013 to collect seed. “There’s room for people my size in them, which is cool,” says the teen from St. Norbert who is growing pumpkins again this
These portable, solar-powered automatic gate release timers are allowing farmers to graze cattle faster through smaller paddocks, while decreasing labour demands.
Livestock

Using sun power to open gates

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Neil Dennis could see the advantages of intensively grazing small paddocks by moving his cattle often — but going to the fields every two hours to move the herd was time consuming. Now he gets the sun to open those gates for him with the help of a portable solar-powered automatic gate release timer sold

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