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If you can’t buy it, make it

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Shopping for the right item to address a specific decorating dilemma can be a challenge. There are times when the item you need is so specific that it can’t be found in the mainstream stores, leaving you without a solution or having to pay top dollar for a custom item. I’ve had this issue with
This mixture of soap bits is one of our ways to recycle and reuse.
Country Crossroads, News

Reduce, recycle, reuse

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My wife acts as the recycling police in our household; I dare not throw even the smallest piece of paper into the garbage without fear of reprimand and she constantly surprises me with her ingenuity when it comes to her efforts to reduce, recycle and reuse. One day I noticed a curious-looking bar of soap
Crops, News

Devloo Roto Mudscraper takes first prize in Inventor’s Showcase

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Two farmer-invented solutions for seeding through muck and trash 
were recognized as top innovations for 2013

Call it the battle of the mud scrapers. Two farmer-invented devices for keeping packer wheels from gumming up in adverse seeding conditions took home the top honours in the Inventor’s Showcase at Ag Days. Winner of the 2013 Top Invention Award, Mark Devloo, said his father originally came up with the design for a rotating,
Livestock, News

Don’t forget your map — there are 500-plus exhibits

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One of the most read pages in the Manitoba Ag Days program is the Ag Days map. With more than 500 exhibits under one roof, it’s an essential aid for navigating the show and making sure nothing is missed. Farm equipment is always a crowd pleaser and Ag Days features displays from just about every
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Changing energy landscape means opportunity for Canadian agriculture

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Canada’s agriculture industry is in a unique position to meet changing global energy demands, Farm Credit Canada says in its latest Knowledge Insider report. The issue highlights shifts in the energy landscape, and what it may mean for Canadian producers and agribusiness owners. “Two things are for certain,” says Kellie Garrett, senior vice-president of strategy,
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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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