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Diploma Alumnus Honoured By Faculty Of Agricultural And Food Sciences

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Agraduate of the University of Manitoba’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences was recognized recently for his outstanding contributions to Manitoba’s agricultural community. Robert Brunel, producer and young farmer advocate, received a certificate of merit from the faculty of agricultural and food sciences at the School of Agriculture diploma graduation on April 30. Brunel graduated
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Kroeker’s Contribution To Potato Industry Honoured

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Don Kroeker, potato producer and industry leader, has received a certificate of merit for degree graduates from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences. Kroeker graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1957 with a bachelor of science in agriculture specializing in agricultural economics. He received the Lieutenant-Governor’s Gold Medal for outstanding
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Course Seeks Peaceful Solution To Food Wars

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Try to have a discussion on food production these days and you invariably end up in a fight. It usually goes something like this. Monsanto: bad. Organic: good. Or vice versa. Either way, it’s a confrontation. A special Canadian Mennonite University course next month aims at taking the conflict out of the food system debate.
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In Brief… – for May. 13, 2010

April showers: Weather systems since April 28 in southern Manitoba produced more rain in one week than normally falls in April and May combined, Manitoba Water Stewardship said in a bulletin last week warning of rising river levels. Significant flooding was not expected. Most areas of southern Manitoba received between 25 millimetres and 40 millimetres
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Bring Down Barriers For Young Farmers, Ag Committee Told

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“If there was profitability in the industry, it wouldn’t be a problem bringing people into the industry.” – WAYNE EASTER, MP Gwen Donohoe wants to return to the family farm near The Pas after she finishes her University of Manitoba masters degree in soil science later this year. But people keep saying she shouldn’t. That’s
Cereals, Hogs, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 22, 2010

Customers will determine industry trends Regarding the story “Gestation stalls could become Canada-U. S. trade issue,” Manitoba Co-operator April 15, Manitoba Pork Council chairman Karl Kynoch said his industry is not against loose housing for sows but change must be based on science, not human emotion and that MPC is going to make sure that
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Seed Companies Pull Out Of Variety Trials

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APrairie-wide program of canola variety trials has been cancelled this year after most of the participating seed companies unexpectedly pulled out. Canola seed developers did not enter enough canola varieties in the 2010 Prairie Canola Variety Trials for it to go ahead, the Canola Council of Canada, which administers the trials, said last week. Dissatisfaction
Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 15, 2010

Disastrous economic development The warning previews are being posted, as John Oliver speaks out on global energy, with food and water shortages on the horizon. (March 25 Manitoba Co-operator story by Daniel Winters.) We read that more than one billion people go hungry every single day and have little or no clean water to drink,
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Putting Fertilizer Where It’s Needed

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“We’re trying to match the nutrient requirements to the production.” – WADE BARNES, FARMERS EDGE Last year, about eight million pounds of phosphorus fertilizer – roughly equivalent to 150 semi-truckloads – were not applied on 750,000 acres of cropland in Western Canada. It wasn’t needed. Credit Farmers Edge and variable rate technology for the cost

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