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Bee Sensitive To Helpful Insects, Urbanites Urged

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What do Mount Everest and honeybees have in common? Check out May 29. That was the day in 1953 when Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to successfully climb the world’s highest mountain. Hillary was a beekeeper from New Zealand. This year, May 29 was the day proclaimed by Ottawa,
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Dave Donaghy, Former Agriculture ADM, Passes

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Dave Donaghy, a former Manitoba Agriculture assistant deputy minister, died May 22 at the Concordia Hospital in Winnipeg. He was 61. Born in Boissevain Dec. 5, 1948, Donaghy grew up on a family farm near Ninga. He received an honours agriculture degree from the University of Manitoba in 1970, winning the gold medal. He later
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Getting A Glimpse Of Rural Medicine

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Jane Dueck made a startling discovery as she spent a week in Carman during late May experiencing rural life and medical practice. Her daily “commute” from her hotel room to the local hospital took exactly seven minutes. “That’s a new experience for me, to be able to get out the door just minutes before I
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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
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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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