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Warning: Soil with seed can spread clubroot

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2012

Manitoba seed and potato growers are being warned about the risk clubroot-infected soil could get to their farm in the seed they bought for spring planting. The Manitoba Clubroot Action Team, consisting of representatives from the Manitoba government, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and the Canola Council of Canada, issued the warning in separate letters to

Crops, News

Industry official fights the image of potatoes as fattening

By Gord Gilmour March 14, 2012

There’s no denying the impact of the image. A morbidly obese woman struggles up a short flight of stairs, while in the forefront of the advertisement are three servings of french fries, growing from modest to mammoth. “Portion sizes have grown, and so has obesity, which leads to many health problems,” reads the headline of

Crops, News

Canadian potato industry faces new challenges: McCain exec

By Gord Gilmour March 14, 2012

The 1990s were the Good Old Days for Canadian potato industry. The U.S. economy was growing, providing strong markets just to the south — markets that were suddenly available as never before due to NAFTA. The Canadian dollar was in the tank, so you could sell in greenbacks and get 30 per cent more in

Crops, News

Shifting sands: Late blight populations changing quickly

By Gord Gilmour March 14, 2012

The symptoms of late blight don’t vary much from strain to strain, but recent evidence suggests that these strains are changing more quickly than ever before, setting growers up for an even bigger control challenges. Rick Peters, a Charlottetown, P.E.I.-based research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), told growers at this winter’s Manitoba Potato

International news, News

Without January rains, one of two heifers will be sold

By Laura Rance-Unger February 15, 2012

Co-operator editor Laura Rance is travelling on a media food study tour with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Updates are being posted on the Co-operator website at www.manitobacooperator.ca. The highway southwest of Addis Ababa to Wolayto-Soddo is wide and smooth, but there is no such thing in Ethiopia as setting the cruise control and just cruising,

International news, News

Farm group decries BASF decision to move German biotech unit to U.S.

January 27, 2012

Germany’s giant association of farming co-operatives said a decision by BASF to transfer its research into crops with genetically modified organisms from Germany to the U.S. and other countries will be “disastrous for Europe as a location for agricultural industries.” The German chemical company plans to move its biotech unit in Limburgerhof to North Carolina,

News

Jets Have A New Bud

October 20, 2011

BRIEFS Co-operator staff They ve got an official potato chip, and now the Winnipeg Jets have an official brewski to go with it. Budweiser an official partner of the team is bringing out a limited-edition beer, dubbed the Welcome Back Brew, to celebrate the return of the NHL to Manitoba. The company brought large, water-filled

Crops

Get Big, Or Get Small

By Daniel Winters September 29, 2011

In 1999, the Peters family reached a crossroads, with Walter and Erna eyeing retirement, and son Marlin and wife Deb looking to make a start in farming. But taking over a 1,000-acre grain farm wasn t an appealing prospect. We were kind of at the point where the equipment was aging, and something needed to

Country Crossroads

Just Don’t Reach For The Ketchup Or Mayo

September 22, 2011

The American Chemical Society reports that just a couple of servings of spuds a day reduces blood pressure almost as much as oatmeal without causing weight gain. But don t reach for the ketchup, vinegar or mayonnaise. The research was not done with French fries, but with potatoes cooked without oil in a microwave oven.

News

Late Blight Found In Tomatoes

By Allan Dawson September 1, 2011

The first case of late blight, the bane of Manitoba tomato growers last year, was confirmed last week on garden tomatoes in Ashern. Five cases of the fungal disease responsible for the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s, have been detected in potatoes, including in a “sentinel” plot at the Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre near

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Tag Archives Potato

Warning: Soil with seed can spread clubroot

Industry official fights the image of potatoes as fattening

Canadian potato industry faces new challenges: McCain exec

Shifting sands: Late blight populations changing quickly

Without January rains, one of two heifers will be sold

Farm group decries BASF decision to move German biotech unit to U.S.

Jets Have A New Bud

Get Big, Or Get Small

Just Don’t Reach For The Ketchup Or Mayo

Late Blight Found In Tomatoes

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