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Ukraine to up winter wheat acreage

October 26, 2012

Reuters / Ukraine may increase the winter grain-sowing area for the 2013 harvest to 8.4 million hectares from the originally planned 8.2 million hectares should favourable weather continue. Wet and warm weather has dominated almost all Ukrainian regions in October and only southern regions lack soil moisture. Meteorologists say Ukraine is experiencing the warmest autumn

Country Crossroads

Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Museum

By Darrell Nesbitt October 10, 2012

Museums are a treasure trove of memorabilia that can fill the slate when someone says, “let’s do something.” Featuring artifacts from the original Riding Mountain settlement of 1899, the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Museum in Sandy Lake is visited annually by 500 guests. Located in a municipal building, the museum started with a one-room display, which

Country Crossroads, News

Dauphin volunteers take up the challenge

By Candy Irwin June 30, 2012

Today in Canada, there are no orphanages. This is not because there are no orphaned, abandoned or “at risk” children, but because we have a social safety net and a belief that children are best taken care of in a family setting whenever possible. Today in Ukraine, there are 275 state-run orphanages, which the statistics

News, Our History

Rhodes Community HallNW 8-29-22 WPM, Ethelbert area

By Edward M. Ledohowski April 15, 2012

Rhodes Hall is a well-preserved example of a 1920s-1930s-era wood-frame, boomtown-fronted, rural community hall. Such structures were commonly located in eastern European districts, where they were erected either as parish halls in conjunction with a nearby rural church, or as secular “National Homes” built by local literary and fraternal organizations. From the time of initial

Dairy cattle, International news, News, Oilseeds

Belarus threatens to ban farm imports from Ukraine

March 14, 2012

kiev / reuters / Belarus has threatened to ban imports of Ukrainian sunflower oil, corn and several other agriculture commodities after Ukraine announced it was barring imports of Belarussian milk and dairy products, Ukraine’s Farm Ministry said March 3. The retaliatory move by Belarus marked an escalation in a regional trade war over dairy products

News

APAS President Resigns

October 13, 2011

BRIEFS Greg Marshall, president of the Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan, has resigned from his position, citing health reasons, the association announced Oct. 6. Marshall is recovering from a heart attack. Mr. Marshall has provided valuable leadership on behalf of Saskatchewan producers, Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud said. We have enjoyed a good working relationship with

Crops

Traders Protest Ukraine Grain Monopoly

April 7, 2011

Ukraine’s plans for greater state control of grain exports could push foreign grain trading houses out of the country, a German international trade association said Mar. 22. A draft law in Ukraine proposes that traders and exporters would have to buy grain from a Ukrainian state company instead of directly from the country’s farmers, which

News, Oilseeds

UAE Eyes Farmland Deals In Ukraine

By Amena Bakr November 26, 2009

“Already we have received a lot of interest from the UAE to invest in Ukraine’s agriculture sector, and we are offering all kinds of projects such as leasing of 100,000 hectares of land to the creation of animal farms with 3,000 cows.” AUnited Arab Emirates delegation plans to visit Ukraine to look at opportunities to

Daily Network News

ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

B.C. agrochemical startup gets $1.2M in federal funding

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