Stolen tractor found at bottom of manure pile

A pile of poo wasn’t enough to conceal the crime, and now a pair of suspects charged with stealing a tractor worth $300,000 off a dealership lot near Stonewall are finding themselves in deep doo-doo. Acting on a Crime Stoppers tip, RCMP recovered the 2009 Case IH Steiger 485 last week underneath an enormous pile

Pigs on display

Visitors to the University of Manitoba’s Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre can now see newborn piglets on display. The community outreach centre located at the University of Manitoba’s Glenlea Research Station is part of the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment. It is designed to provide people information about the science


Farms dangerous places for kids

Reuters / More than 26,000 children and adolescents are injured on U.S. farms and ranches every year, racking up costs of more than $1.4 billion — but only 84 of these were fatal, according to a new study. The findings, the first of their kind, were published in the journal Pediatrics and based on government

New Big Iron is more efficient and environmentally friendly

Ag Days is a signature venue for agricultural equipment manufacturers and is the place where Prairie farmers often get a first peek at new products. A lot of the Big Iron on display for 2012 will be showcasing not just equipment, but some new, factory-installed technology to help make farmers more efficient and environmentally friendly.


The Evolution Of On-Farm Fuel Storage

Manitoba Agricultural Museum release In the summer of 2010, while looking through a scrap pile on a western Manitoba farm for Rumely silo filler parts, a Manitoba Agricultural Museum volunteer made a much more interesting find steel oil barrels. While many readers might be thinking, Steel barrels! Do these people have nothing better to do?

Online Services Come To The Farm

NEWS STAFF / Manitoba farmers will soon be able to use an online service-delivery system to register for programs or apply for services offered by Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI). The province has rolled out AccessManitoba, a new system meant to allow businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals to register for programs and submit online


Edsel Of Tractors Sells For A Record Price

RECORD HIGH BID By Lorraine Stevenson Co-operator staff International Harvester s M18-35 Titan tractor was a dud when it first hit the market in the early 1900s. But now it s worth as much as a brand new one. The rare vintage tractor restored by a MacGregor-area farmer has fetched what s believed to be

New Guide For Better Hitches

Farmers are adept at improvising, but that s not a good idea when hooking up old equipment to a new tractor. I sit on the Canadian Standards Association committee for agricultural machinery and this has been a theme at a number of our meetings, the incompatibility of older implements and newer tractors, said Jim Wassermann,


Crowds Watch Plowmen Compete

Co-operator Staff | alexander The horses are catching up to the tractors at least they were at this year s Manitoba Provincial Plowing Association s annual plowing match. Seven horse-drawn teams were featured in this year s event , and they joined an equal number of tractor entrants competing on a field owned by Jim

In Brief… – for Sep. 8, 2011

Get on the list:Door-to-door enumeration for the October 4 provincial general election is complete, but voters who were not home when the enumerator called can still have their names added to the voters’ list, Elections Manitoba says in a release. Prospective voters can contact their returning office to arrange for an election official to visit