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Kirschmann Spra-Coupe, and wheat exports see a five-year low

Our History: June 1968

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 2, 2016

This Kirschmann Spra-Coupe advertised in our June 13, 1968 issue featured a 54-foot spray pattern and speeds up to 25 m.p.h. The main front-page news that issue was Manitoba Pool Elevators directors recommending that the Pool convert to a “line” company. Unlike the other two Prairie Pools, which were centrally owned from the start, each

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Tire sales and the farmer’s guide to nuclear attack

Our History: May 1961

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 26, 2016

This ad from our May 11, 1961 issue offered a special on tractor and truck tires, with a 15×30 — 6-Ply offered at $135 ($1,135 in 2016 dollars). Tire prices may not have been at the top of farmers’ minds at the time — a front-page story referred to a new illustrated government publication called

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The Bredt Trophy

Our History: April 1961

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 25, 2016

This photo from our April 27, 1961 issue shows Tom Watson, president of the Elkhorn-Arawana Crop Improvement Club, receiving the Bredt Trophy from Manitoba Pool Elevators director G.G. Jamieson. The trophy was named in honour of Paul Bredt, MPE’s second president, who was credited with steering the company through the difficult times of the 1930s.

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A struggling loonie puts up its dukes, sort of

Our History: May 1999

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 12, 2016

This cartoon in our May 13, 1999 issue poked fun at the apparent revival of the loonie toward the 70-cent U.S. mark, but it was to struggle some more, reaching an all-time low of 61.70 cents in January 2002. That issue reported the first in an extended period of drenched fields in the traditionally dry

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Cockshutt horse-drawn disc and drag harrows

Our History: May 1927

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 5, 2016

The May 1927 issue of The Scoop Shovel also featured advertisements for tractors and automobiles, but horse-drawn implements were still featured, such as these Cockshutt disc and drag harrows. The issue featured extensive coverage of addresses to the International Wheat Pool conference in Kansas City, including speeches by the presidents of the three Prairie wheat

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Retiring? Invest in the Manitoba Pool – but maybe not at today’s rates

Our History: May 1980

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 28, 2016

If you’re looking for retirement income today, you’ll look fondly at the 13.5 per cent on 10-year certificates offered by Manitoba Pool Elevators in May of 1980. At the end of 10 years, they’d be worth $3,548. If you invested at today’s GIC rates of around 2.5 per cent, $1,000 would become only $1,280 in

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Polled Angus cow ‘Erinna’ graces the cover of Nor-West Farmer

Our History: April 1887

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 14, 2016

Erinna, a polled Angus cow imported by H.M. Cochrane of Compton, Quebec graced the cover of the April 1887 issue of The Nor-West Farmer and Manitoba Miller. The issue has much discussion of the merits of various breeds, including the Shorthorn, Hereford, “Holstein-Freizian,” “Red Polled,” Galloway, Devon and Aberdeen Angus. On raising hogs, it was

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Renew your old discer or one-way for $350 or less!

Our History: April 1968

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 7, 2016

You could renew your old discer or one-way for $350 or less and save up to $2,100 with a bearing set advertised by Loewen Manufacturing in our April 4, 1968 issue. That April was a big month in world news — U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek re-election, Reverend Martin Luther King

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Resolution to lift ban on coloured margarine sees repeat defeat

Our History: March 1957

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 31, 2016

This Dodge 1-1/2-ton was on sale for $2,495 in our March 28, 1957 issue. According to the Bank of Canada inflation calculator, that would be $21,720 in 2016 dollars. If you were perusing the classifieds, you could find “Four, 10-month-old Hereford heifers, some polled, $90. Five young cows, to calve soon, $175.” If you were

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Is extra-early spring seeding worth the risk?

Our History: April 2012

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 24, 2016

If this year’s early spring is making you itchy to get out there, there may be a lesson in this photo of MAFRD oilseed specialist Anastasia Kubinec seeding canola at the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm at Carman April 5, 2012. Farmers were calling to ask if extra-early seeding was worth the risk, so the

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Tag Archives Our History

Kirschmann Spra-Coupe, and wheat exports see a five-year low

Tire sales and the farmer’s guide to nuclear attack

The Bredt Trophy

A struggling loonie puts up its dukes, sort of

Cockshutt horse-drawn disc and drag harrows

Retiring? Invest in the Manitoba Pool – but maybe not at today’s rates

Polled Angus cow ‘Erinna’ graces the cover of Nor-West Farmer

Renew your old discer or one-way for $350 or less!

Resolution to lift ban on coloured margarine sees repeat defeat

Is extra-early spring seeding worth the risk?

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