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Monsanto Fund gives grants to community groups

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Fourteen Manitoba communities were among the 58 chosen from across Canada for grants under the Monsanto’s Canada’s Farmers Grow Communities program. The program aimed at strengthening rural communities, provides the opportunity for farmers to secure a $2,500 grant for their favourite community charity or not-for-profit organization. The Monsanto Fund will direct $145,000 to charitable and
Hogs, Livestock

Good gilt management improves lifetime productivity

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Genetic progress in litter size has been rapid over the last 15 years, with an annual improvement in the range of 0.2 – 0.3 total born. For many producers, litter size is no longer a limiting factor to achieving a high number of pigs born per sow per year. Today’s challenges now centre around maximizing
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OUR HISTORY: November, 1928

The front page of the November, 1928 issue of The Scoop Shovel featured information on the Campbell Farming Corporation in Montana, which had 95,000 owned and leased acres, with 65,000 acres plowed and 45,000 in crop each year. It owned 56 tractors, 500, 14-inch plow bottoms, 60, 12-foot drills, 50, 10-foot discs, 72 binders 100
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Container regulation change angers food processors

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A coalition of food processors and farm groups is protesting a federal plan to no longer require standard-size packages. New rules mean American food producers will no longer have to use Canadian-size packages and that will give some of them an advantage in the grocery store aisle, said Chris Kyte, president of the Food Processors
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Bayer CropScience provides scholarships

Bayer CropScience Canada Inc. is offering the Bayer CropScience Scholarship for Future Leaders to recognize students who have shown leadership and made a significant contribution to agriculture. Five $5,000 annual scholarships will be awarded at leading Canadian agriculture universities to students who have led the way through leadership and engagement, and made a difference to
Crops, Oilseeds

Canola variety selection tool now live with 2012 results

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The tool includes an economic calculator, interactive maps, and the ability to refine searches by five traits

The online Canola Variety Selection tool is now live with data from the 2012 Canola Performance Trials (CPT), giving canola growers another tool to compare variety performance. The CPT provides science-based, unbiased performance data that reflects actual production practices. The selection tool provides comparative data on leading varieties and newly introduced varieties. The tool includes
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Bipole route fails to consider effects on farming

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The needs of agriculture were ranked equally with garter snakes, while birds, mammals and caribou were given extra consideration

The following is an excerpt of a presentation by Niverville farmer Karen Friesen to the Clean Environment Commission hearings on Bipole III last month. The hearings are continuing in Winnipeg through November. Of the 20 million acres farmed in Manitoba, only 25 per cent is classified as Land Inventory Classes 1, 2, and 3 —
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Conservatives block additional scrutiny of food safety bill

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Food safety legislation and sweeping changes to the Canadian Grain Commission are being rushed through Parliament with scant opportunity for MPs to consider their implications. Conservative MPs used their majority on the Commons agriculture committee last week to reject a Liberal call to extend hearings on the Safe Food for Canadians Act and have Agriculture
Livestock, News

Ritz regrets XL Foods wasn’t pushed harder

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency should have been “more vociferous” in demanding inspection data from XL Foods during the early stages of the contaminated beef crisis, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz admits. “The CFIA could have been more hard nosed,” Ritz said at Commons agriculture committee hearings on legislation that will overhaul the agency. But he
News, Opinion

Bureaucratic shuffle may mean continued delay of rail bill

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A shuffle at the top rank of Transport Canada has shippers worried that long-promised legislation to balance the market power of the railways and their customers will be delayed. Louis Levesque will move from deputy minister for international trade to the same post at Transport Canada Nov. 12, replacing Yaprak Baltacioglu, who will become secretary

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