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Plan aims to address economic problems of Manitoba’s Interlake

Our History: May 1966

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 21, 2015

Our May 19, 1966 issue led with coverage of the release of a 78-page master plan to address the chronic economic problems of the Interlake. This graphic contained the recommendations for land use in the different areas of the region. Improved education was recommended as the “paramount undertaking,” followed by resource development. Agriculture Minister George

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Why a curling rock curls

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 23, 2013

Swedish researchers who specialize in studying friction and wear in industrial systems have uncovered the secret to why a curling rock curls. The globally popular sport gets its name from the slightly curved or “curl” path the stones take when released by the player towards the target area nearly 30 metres away. As soon as

Crops

Multi-tasking tractor was also a truck. It could power your sawmill too

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum April 9, 2013

The Avery 12-horsepower tractor was nothing if not versatile. The combination truck/tractor could carry 3,000 pounds in truck mode, and pull a three-bottom plow in the field. When fitted with a belt pulley on its front, it could power a 22-inch cylinder threshing machine, a circular saw, or water pump. But with a price tag

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Maybe it wasn’t all those butter tarts

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 17, 2013

Feeling like you’ve packed on a few micrograms over the holidays? Perhaps the kilogram is to blame. Researchers from Newcastle University in Britain have shown the kilogram itself has put on weight. The original kilogram — known as the International Prototype Kilogram or the IPK — is the standard against which all other measurements of

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Freezing temperatures drop on Kansas wheat fields

April 19, 2012

reuters / Potentially crop-damaging freezing temperatures descended on to western Kansas early April 16, where the new crop of hard red winter wheat was maturing rapidly, but wheat experts said the wheat likely held up well. “It can tolerate some pretty cool temperatures with little or no damage,” said Kansas State University agronomist Jim Shroyer.

Country Crossroads, The Jacksons

The Jacksons

By Rollin Penner April 7, 2012

They tell me that in Hawaii the temperature varies about 7° throughout the course of the year, and they say at the South Pole, while the temperature varies more than that, it nevertheless always stays below the freezing point. In other words there are places on earth that have no seasons, or more accurately, they

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Sun’s magnetic field could jinx GPS

By Laura Rance-Unger January 27, 2012

Don’t blame the manufacturers — or even the gremlins — if your GPS system goes a little wonky in 2012. It’s likely solar flares will wreak havoc with at least some systems this coming year as the sun flips its magnetic field, says Pam Wilson, a precision agriculture instructor with Assiniboine Community College. “Basically the sun’s

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Life’s biggest mystery still has him stumped

By Cambridge, Reuters January 25, 2012

When Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s best-known scientists, was asked what he wonders about most, the Cambridge University professor renowned for unravelling some of the most complex questions in modern physics had his answer ready. “Women. They are a complete mystery,” quipped the author of A Brief History of Time. The wheelchair-bound Hawking, who

Crops

Canada Tightens Controls On Japanese Food, Animal Feed

April 7, 2011

Canada has tightened its controls on Japanese imports to include all food and animal feed products from areas affected by Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said April 1 that it requires documentation proving the safety of food and feed products before it will allow them into Canada. The federal agency has

Dairy cattle, News

Radiation In Japanese Food A Concern

By Risa Maeda March 24, 2011

The World Health Organization said on Monday that radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was more serious than previously thought, eclipsing signs of progress in a battle to avert a catastrophic meltdown in its reactors. Engineers managed to rig power cables to all six reactors at the Fukushima complex, 240

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B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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