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Wanna Be A Farmer?

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 27, 2010

Manitoba Farm Mentorship is sponsoring a contest designed to draw wannabe organic farmers out of hiding. “We know you’re out there… you and other inspired, practical, hard-working, environmentally conscious young people who are thinking about local food farming as your chosen career. Well here’s a contest for you,” the organization says in a release. Entrants

Livestock

BMP Program Approves 180 Projects

By Manitoba Government Release April 29, 2010

The Manitoba Sustainable Agriculture Practices Program (MSAPP) has completed its first intake of applications for beneficial management practice (BMP) incentive funding for the 2010-11 fiscal year, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers has announced. “The MSAPP is a incentive-based program announced by the province in 2008 to encourage producers to adopt and implement

Country Crossroads

Start Tomato Seeds Soon

By Lillian Deedman April 8, 2010

Tomato seed should be sown no sooner than four to six weeks before the last spring frost. Plant the seed thinly, covering with a soilless mix to a depth of one-quarter inch, and use a mild fertilizer of one level teaspoon of 20 20 20 dissolved in two gallons of water at each watering. Keep

News

Manitoba Organic Alliance Pitches “Unified” Voice

By Daniel Winters March 25, 2010

brandon If conventional farmers have Keystone Agricultural Producers lobbying on their behalf, who speaks for organic producers in Manitoba? According to Priscilla Reimer, chair of the Manitoba Organic Alliance, strong producer support for MOA could create a representative, democratically elected, unified voice for the province’s growing organic sector. “MOA is to the entire organic sector

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Canola And Peas “Love” Each Other

By Daniel Winters March 25, 2010

Results from intercropping trials are showing that planting two crops together offers higher yields than monocultures. It’s old hat for organic farmers, who have been seeding cover and relay crops since the days when Grandpa seeded peas and oats together, harvested them with a horse-drawn binder, and pitched the sheaves off a hayrack to his

News

Organic Sector Receives Federal Funds

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 11, 2010

The federal government is investing $170,000 into Canada’s organic sector to help with quality development and marketing. “We want to give Canadian farmers and processors a competitive edge in the organic sector and help them meet consumer demands at home and abroad by providing organic products of the highest standards,” said Gail Shea, minister of

Hogs, Livestock

Manure-Processing Projects Approved For Funding

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 4, 2010

A hog manure lagoon and a combined hog/ chicken manure lagoon will be used in the project. Test projects to separate useful fertilizer out of liquid manure and to compost solids will get underway this spring with public and producer funding. Hog producer Hytek plans to assess a manure treatment system that separates out crop

Country Crossroads

Record-Keeping Workshops Planned

By Canadian Organic Growers Release February 18, 2010

Canadian Organic Growers and the Organic Food Council of Manitoba are offering two new continuing education opportunities for Manitoba farmers before they get into the field this spring. These one-day workshops are designed to help farmers handle the record-keeping requirements of organic production, learn about the new organic rules that came into force last summer,

Opinion

The Colour Of Farm Politics

By Kevin Hursh January 28, 2010

A lot of Europeans travel but don’t seem to worry about consuming GM crops while on holiday in another country. Green is the new Red. In other words, a big part of the Green movement is fuelled by people with a philosophy that used to be called Red – a philosophy that’s anti-business and anti-development.

Crops

Organic No-Till Pioneer Explains Strategy

By Daniel Winters January 28, 2010

When Jeff Moyer, farm manager of the Rodale Institute, started cutting back on tillage out of concern for the long-term health of the soil on the institute’s 330-acre research farm in southeast Pennsylvania, he faced a predictable result. Weeds – and lots of them. “Year after year, our weed pressure was building until it was

Daily Network News

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