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Manitoba Women’s Institute president-elect Ann Mandziuk (l) and president Donna Young celebrate being presented a first-ever Nellie McClung award presented to their organization during the Centennial Gala marking 100 years since women in Manitoba were given the right to vote.

Women’s Institute earns a ‘Nellie’ award

The rural women’s group is one of 10 recipients of the award presented in honour of the influential Manitoba feminist

By Lorraine Stevenson February 18, 2016

The Manitoba Women’s Institute is one of 10 recipients of the first-ever Nellie Awards presented by the Nellie McClung Foundation at its Centennial Gala late last month. The awards made in honour of one of this province’s most influential feminists were given out January 28, the centennial of women in Manitoba earning the right to

Local news, Pulses

VIDEO: Roundup Ready Xtend soybeans and the fight against herbicide resistance

Monsanto’s glyphosate and dicamba tolerant soybeans will help in delaying glyphosate resistant weeds says DEKALB agronomist Bruce Murray

By Allan Dawson June 30, 2015

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson interviewed Bruce Murray June 23 about Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready Xtend soybeans, which will be available to Manitoba farmers next spring if, as expected, China approves them.

Did you know?, Local news

Gold medal speed skater signs up to be farmer for fundraising campaign

A new initiative invites groups and individuals to sponsor an acre

By Amanda Thorsteinsson May 4, 2015

Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater Cindy Klassen has signed up to be a farmer this summer as part of a Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) fundraising campaign. “This year, I’m helping provide food for hungry people around the world by trading in my skates and becoming a farmer,” she says in

Local news

Study reveals downtown Brandon is a ‘food desert’

Brandon food study reveals some have  a long trip to grocery stores

By Lorraine Stevenson April 17, 2015

Forty minutes in a car can take you from one town to the next in Westman, but that’s as long as some Brandonites spend riding the bus one way to go for groceries in the city. Lack of access to grocery stores is highlighted in a new report, called the Brandon Community Food Assessment, released

Opinion

Study predicts no farmers and ranchers under 35 by 2033

Trends in Wyoming are occurring across North America

By Rangelands January 14, 2015

When did you last hear a high school senior say, “I’m taking over the ranch,” or even a seven-year-old announce, “I want to be a farmer”? As longtime farmers and ranchers grow older, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to pass on the family farm or find young employees to pick up the reins at large corporate

Country Crossroads

Lessons from the front line of the rural stress line

Doug Grossart, who lost a loved one to mental illness,  now helps other people cope with their internal struggles

By Meghan Mast January 8, 2015

Some people are recruited into politics, while others are recruited into the police force. Doug Grossart was sought out for an equally important, albeit unpaid, public service as volunteer for the Manitoba Farm and Rural Stress line. “We did kind of chase him around for a while before he agreed to do it,” laughs Kim

Crops

VIDEO: 2014 Crop Diagnostic School

Technology playing a key role in crop scouting, providing value and efficiency in field management

By Allan Dawson July 22, 2014

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson interviews John Heard of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development about the 2014 Crop Diagnostic School organized by Manitoba Agriculture and the University of Manitoba at the university’s Carman facility. Video by Allan Dawson

Opinion

So much for the ‘cheap food’ defence

By Laura Rance-Unger May 30, 2014

Ag boosters habitually fall back on two defences whenever someone questions why farmers do things the way they do — usually on ethical or environmental sustainability issues. We’ve dealt with fallacies of the first mantra — our farmers must feed the world — previously in this space. Increasing the productivity of small-scale farmers — most

Jean-Phillipe Gervais, chief agricultural economist for Farm Credit Canada speaks at the GrowCanada conference in Calgary.

Dairy cattle, News

Opportunities and challenges follow demographic changes

Immigration is feeding the Canadian population, but agribusiness needs to figure out what is feeding immigrants

By Shannon VanRaes January 3, 2014

The face of Canada is changing — or more correctly, the faces of Canada are changing. “Canada is rapidly moving from being a white country to becoming a brown country,” Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, told attendees at the recent GrowCanada conference in Calgary. And that’s something that should get those in

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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