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No Shortage Of Topics For Crop School

By Allan Dawson July 1, 2010

“Zero-till is harder in wheat stubble and strip-till seems to be a way to deal with it.” – JOHN HEARD John Heard and his Crop Diagnostic School team have taken the advice that when life delivers lemons, you make lemonade. All that rain that’s hurting Manitoba crops has also hit the diagnostic school’s plots here

Livestock

Fairs & Festivals – for Jul. 1, 2010

July 1, 2010

Is your community hosting a farm fair or exhibition in 2010? Contact the Co-operator with your event, dates, location, contact information (phone, email and/or website) and updates or changes to [email protected].. July 1-3 – Dauphin Fair, contact Sherry Beyak at 204-638-4428 or visit www.dauphinfair.ca. July 1-4 – Dauphin’s Countryfest, featuring Brooks and Dunn, Miranda Lambert,

News, Pulses

What’s Up – for Jun. 24, 2010

June 24, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762. July 6-9– Crop Diagnostic School, Ian N. Morrison (University of Manitoba) Research Farm, Carman. Enrolment limited to 60 people per day, cost $160 per person. For more info or to register call 204-745-5663. July 11-14 – Canadian Special Crops Association annual convention and trade show, Sheraton

Country Crossroads

Traditional High-Fat Diets Offer Health Benefits

By Lorraine Stevenson June 24, 2010

Born in 1939 in a remote community on Vancouver Island, Richard Atleo’s earliest food memories are of villagers eating feasts of salmon and seafood, foraged berries and gathered plant roots he can recall were “piled as high as a house.” Food at home was in stark contrast to the white bread, potatoes with a little

Country Crossroads

Celebrating 10 Years Of Accomplishments

By Kim Langen June 24, 2010

It was a birthday party celebration of a different sort in Ninette, Manitoba. A jubilant group of adults and staff, all part of Southwest Community Options (SCO), recently lit up the candles there to mark 10 years of their progress in the little town. And it has been a remarkable decade. That’s because SCO was

News

Northern food insecurity

“We see a very, very bad and a very, very big problem,” Uche Nwankwo, Intern Professor at the Natural Resources Institute

By Lorraine Stevenson June 17, 2010

Hunger haunts three out of four households in northern Manitoba with some families going entire days without food, new research has found. Last summer a team of researchers from the University of Manitoba’s Natural Resources Centre surveyed 473 households in 14 communities across Manitoba’s north. They found a 75 per cent incidence of household food

Cereals, News

Food Stats Show Some Positive Trends

By Ron Friesen June 10, 2010

Canadians are eating more fresh fruits and vegetables and less red meat, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the nation’s overall diet is improving. The average Canadian also consumes more sugar, coffee and cheese and nearly as much fat and oil as before, says a new Statistics Canada food consumption report for 2009. The average caloric

News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Jun. 10, 2010

June 10, 2010

Dow gets access to Roundup: Monsanto Co. has agreed to license its Roundup Ready 2 Yield herbicide trait to Dow Chemical’s agricultural unit, an agreement that will let Dow boost its presence in the soybean market. Dow AgroSciences will pay Monsanto a royalty for stacking the technology with its seeds. As part of stacking, seed

Crops, News

Duff Roblin (1917-2010): Manitoba Crop Insurance Pioneer

By Ron Friesen June 10, 2010

“Farmers at the time were not insurance oriented at all.” – HAYDEN TOLTON To most Manitobans, former premier Duff Roblin’s main legacy will always be Duff’s Ditch – the floodway diverting spring run off from the Red River around Winnipeg that has saved the city many times. But Roblin, who died last week at 92,

Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

So-Called “Activists” Are Actually Realists

June 10, 2010

My name is Dr. Kees Scheepens, pig veterinarian and pig farmer from the Netherlands. I was in Manitoba March 25 to give a talk at the University of Manitoba on the phasing out of gestation crates. Now I am sent the article “Animal Welfare Activists Target Pig Castration,” which published in the March 25 issue

Daily Network News

USDA defends $12 billion subsidy amid farm economy challenges

Canada December retail sales down 0.4 per cent; seen up 1.5 per cent in January

Feed Grains Weekly: Domestic prices remain flat

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