New Crop For Local Brewers May Be Possible

Crack open a cold one and hold it under your nose. Now take a deep slurp. The aroma you smell and the bitterness you taste come from hops, a flavouring and stabilizing ingredient used in beer making. Right now, all the hops used by breweries in Manitoba is imported. But in a few years, with

What’s Up – for Aug. 6, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Aug. 6 – Prairie Fruit Growers Association summer field tour, Connery Berry Farm and CMCDC Portage Station, Portage la Prairie. For more info call MAFRI at 204-745-5675. Aug. 10-14 – Canadian Cattlemen’s Association national meeting and semi-annual convention, Travelodge, 4177 Albert St. S., Regina. Registration $189


The Prairie Fruit Growers Association Berry Hotline

RECIPE SWAP We love getting your recipes! If you are looking for a specific recipe and think our readers might have it, send us your request too. We will publish your requests too! should now be taking calls as another long-awaited berry-picking season begins. But, as always, phone the farm before you go. Manitoba’sfruit growers

Manitoba’s Small Fruit Crop Itching For Warm Weather

“If we got good heat, the plants would just explode.” – ANTHONY MINTENKO, MAFRI Manitoba’s small fruit growers appear to have dodged the late-spring frost, but now face the prospect of a delayed picking season. A cool, wet spring has put berry crops at least two weeks behind in their normal development. But that was