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Virtual Farmers’ Market Continues To Grow – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Riding Mountain Biosphere September 23, 2010

Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve staff are travelling across the 15 rural municipalities within the reserve to meet with farmers and producers who want to sell their product “At The Farm Gate.” There is a growing trend of people who are following the “100-Mile Diet,” eating locally, cooking more meals at home, and becoming aware of

Country Crossroads

Celebrating A Century Of Progress – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Lorraine Stevenson September 16, 2010

Women running farm homes a century ago could scarcely have imagined the clean, comfortable, and efficient homes of their daughters and granddaughters. But they could envision a better quality of life, and today’s farm families owe a debt of gratitude to those women who fought for amenities such as electricity and running water, and encouraged

Livestock

CCIA Adds Online User Support Feature – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 16, 2010

Anew online “Resource Centre” including a user guide, templates and tools for information upload, frequently asked questions (FAQs), software resources and feedback channels is the latest feature of the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency website. The Resource Centre is much like a roadmap to the CCIA’s Canadian Livestock Tracking System, or CLTS, CCIA chairman Darcy Eddleston

Opinion

Fair Food, Circus Fare – for Aug. 19, 2010

By Alan Guebert August 19, 2010

As the county and state fair season spreads across America, farmers, ranchers and producer groups from Maryland and Montana will cook rib-eyes, whip up omelettes, grill chicken, barbecue pork steaks, butter sweet corn and pour thick milkshakes for their non-farming customers from Baltimore to Billings and nearly everywhere in between. This fresh, wholesome goodness will

Country Crossroads

Community Supported Agriculture Farming Gaining Momentum In Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson July 8, 2010

Six CSAs are listed in MAFRI’s 2010 Local Produce Guide So far, 2010 could hardly look less promising for those trying to grow crops, but a few Manitoba flood producers slogging through mud and mosquitoes know they aren’t carrying the risk alone. They’re among a small but growing number of vegetable farmers running Community Supported

Livestock

Park Area Farmers Sought For Direct-Marketing Initiative

By Lorraine Stevenson July 1, 2010

Aplan to link farmers offering local food products for sale and people who live in or visit the communities around Riding Mountain National Park aims to bring more dollars to those communities. Earlier this month staff with the Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve, made up of 15 municipalities that surround the park, put out the call

Cereals, Opinion

Dissecting Co-Operatives’ Demise

May 27, 2010

With several large agriculture co-ops facing the same issues at roughly the same time frame, one has to ask – are these isolated events or are they part of some larger pattern? Co-ops are one of our shopping options– Co-op Marketplace grocery stores, credit unions, Co-op Gas Bars and C-stores, Mountain Equipment Co-op– and they

Livestock

Livestock ID System Now Dial-Up Friendly

By CCIA April 15, 2010

The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) has launched a new, quick-loading version of the Canadian Livestock Tracking System (CLTS) named CLTS Lite. This application is designed to provide the same functionality and information to CLTS users as the original system, but without the extras that usually delay access for rural users with dial-up connections. The

Cereals, Crops

Partnership Aims To Produce More Wheat

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 15, 2010

Syngenta has announced a public-private partnership with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to focus on the development and advancement of technology in wheat, the most internationally traded food crop and the single-largest food import in developing countries. The agreement will entail joint research and development in the areas of native and GM

Opinion

Farmers Are In This Together

By Kate Storey April 8, 2010

It might be time to start paying attention. Consumers are beginning to use their dollar power to drive agriculture and we farmers don’t know where that will take us. Ihave no argument with the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council. My goal is always for farmers to work together to find innovative solutions as the food world

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

Tag Archives Rural community development

Virtual Farmers’ Market Continues To Grow – for Sep. 23, 2010

Celebrating A Century Of Progress – for Sep. 16, 2010

CCIA Adds Online User Support Feature – for Sep. 16, 2010

Fair Food, Circus Fare – for Aug. 19, 2010

Community Supported Agriculture Farming Gaining Momentum In Manitoba

Park Area Farmers Sought For Direct-Marketing Initiative

Dissecting Co-Operatives’ Demise

Livestock ID System Now Dial-Up Friendly

Partnership Aims To Produce More Wheat

Farmers Are In This Together

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