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Learn about fungicides via your VCR

Our History: February 1991

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 16, 2017

Fungicides were a new concept for farmers in February 1991. To learn more you could watch a video, but that meant sending for a VHS in the mail, not watching YouTube. In our Feb. 21 issue we reported on a meeting at CSP Foods in Altona (now owned by Bunge), one of three canola-crushing plants

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Oakland Hatcheries’ ‘Big 3’ in egg production

Our History: February 1960

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 9, 2017

You had a choice of three breeds — Shaver, Fisher and Ames — if you were responding to this ad from Oakland Hatcheries in our Feb. 18, 1960 issue. The front-page story that week reported on a letter sent by Manitoba Pool president W.J. Parker to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on behalf of the three

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Interest rate jumps on overdue farm supply accounts

Our History: February 1980

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 26, 2017

No, not 1.75 per cent per year, more like today, but per month. The interest on overdue farm supply accounts at Manitoba Pool in February, 1980 was 21 per cent a year. Our Feb. 14 issue carried part five of a summary of the Rapeseed ’80 home study course, in which 2,500 producers were participating.

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Don’t miss out on UGG shares

Our History: January 1993

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 19, 2017

In 1993, United Grain Growers was in transition to being a partly publicly traded company, and this ad in our Jan. 21 issue alerted members that they were entitled to common shares if they had hauled grain to UGG in the previous six years. One of the headlines that issue was “More tough times possible,”

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Keep your chicks warm with the Silent Sioux brooder

Our History: January 1950

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 12, 2017

If you wanted to keep your chicks warm in the winter of 1950, you could purchase this Silent Sioux oil-burning brooder advertised in our Jan. 19 issue. We reported that “Complaints were pouring in last week as residents of rural Manitoba felt the first impact of the general 25 per cent reduction in Canadian National

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Spra-Coupe sets a new standard for sprayers

Our History: December 1993

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 5, 2017

The latest model of the Melroe Spra-Coupe was featured in this ad in our Dec. 9, 1993 issue. It contained the final Statistics Canada crop estimate for that year — the good news was that total Prairie production was up six per cent to 51 million tonnes. The bad news was that despite a “washout”

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A cartoonist’s view of the grain trade

Our History: December 1908

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 22, 2016

The December 1908 issue of The Grain Growers’ Guide offered this explanation of the roles of the various players in the grain trade, of whom the cartoonist apparently took a dim view. The Grain Growers’ Guide was at the time the “Official organ” of the Manitoba Grain Growers Association and the Grain Growers’ Grain Company,

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A recipe book for Christmas, with a dash of history

Our History: December 1954

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 21, 2016

If you were looking for a Christmas present in 1954, one suggestion was a ring-bound recipe book, which also contained short histories of many Manitoba co-operatives. Our Dec. 8 issue also contained a report on the overall financial results of Canadian co-ops. Total sales for 1953 were $1.2 billion, an increase of $90 million from

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Have you hugged your cow today?

Our History: December 1998

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 8, 2016

The just-completed merger of Manitoba and Alberta Pools into Agricore took up much of our Dec. 3, 1998 issue. That included what became a somewhat controversial “Farming is everything” advertising campaign, that included the new grain company’s double-page spread of a farmer hugging a dairy calf. The issue had an interview with Agricore CEO Gordon

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Manitoba Pool Elevators still going strong

Our History: December 1994

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 1, 2016

Manitoba Pool Elevators was still going strong in 1994 — this ad in our Dec. 1 issue reported member allocations of $3.47 per tonne for 1994 and $1.58 for the following year. Member equity was at $140 million. Canamera Foods, then Canada’s largest oilseed crusher and 50 per cent owned by Manitoba and Saskatchewan Pools,

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Learn about fungicides via your VCR

Oakland Hatcheries’ ‘Big 3’ in egg production

Interest rate jumps on overdue farm supply accounts

Don’t miss out on UGG shares

Keep your chicks warm with the Silent Sioux brooder

Spra-Coupe sets a new standard for sprayers

A cartoonist’s view of the grain trade

A recipe book for Christmas, with a dash of history

Have you hugged your cow today?

Manitoba Pool Elevators still going strong

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