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Bipole III Raises Farmers’ Concerns About Land Impacts

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“These high-voltage power lines are so big that going over top or underneath isn’t an option.” – DOUG CHORNEY, KAP Questions about its impact on agriculture surround a new Manitoba Hydro high-voltage transmission line planned from the North that will ultimately run through some of the best farmland in the province. Producers want to know
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What’s Up – for Oct. 29, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 1-3 – Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference, Greenwood Inn, 1715 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. Early-bird registration deadline Oct. 15. For more info call 204-423-2089 or visit www.manitobafarmwomensconference.ca. Nov. 1-4 – Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Marriott Ottawa, 100 Kent St., Ottawa. For more info visit www.cwfhb.org.
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AgriVenture Delivers More Than Expected

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The Walkers are now comfortably settled in their own home in Oakbank, Manitoba. Margaret Szklaruk wanted to see the world, learn about other countries and their people, and enjoy new experiences. She achieved that with the help of an excellent exchange program, but didn’t expect to find her life partner all the way across the
Beef cattle, Livestock

MCEC’s New Chairman Named

The levy-funded agency tasked with building cattle slaughter and beef-processing capacity in the province has named a new chairman. Neil Van Ryssel, a dairyman and grain grower from Oakbank, has been named by Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk to replace outgoing chairman Bill Uruski on the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council (MCEC). Uruski, a former agriculture minister
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Land Use Policies Should Reflect Reality

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“We don’t want to be reorganized to fit the sewage system.” – DAVE YOUNG, LOCAL RESIDENT Can land be considered farmland if it hasn’t been farmed for years? Ask Dave Young. Young sees vast expanses of “derelict” farmland in the Rural Municipality of Reynolds in eastern Manitoba, where he lives. But the Canada Land Inventory
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Selling Grass-Fed Beef

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“The government really wants grass-fed beef to work. From the minister all the way down, we’ve had tremendous support …” – JIM LINTOTT Being 20 minutes from Portage and Main is a big advantage for Jim Lintott, who began direct marketing his beef after BSE sent auction mart prices into the tank. “My cattle have
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Auger-Steer wins Inventor’s Showcase

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Brandon With grain augers and conveyors going the way of farms – getting bigger – the days when a couple of farmhands could hoist them up and manoeuvre them around the yard and into position are gone. And using tractors to move them around corners and buildings in tight yards is no easy task either,
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Manitobans earn “Golden Carrots” on World Food Day

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“Let’s continue to build on this effort to bring more food security to this province.” – Rosann Wowchuk Organic greenhouse grower and farm and rural advocate David Neufeld of Boissevain is the recipient of one of six “Golden Carrot” awards handed out at the Manitoba legislature on World Food Day last week. This is the

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