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Holistic Approach To Phosphorus Management Urged

By Ron Friesen March 4, 2010

“It’s time to treat environmental health like we do human health.” – DON FLATEN They’re the latest buzzword in environmental management – beneficial management practices, or BMPs for short. Follow them and your farm will be environmentally sound, producers are told. It sounds good in theory. But are BMPs really the answer to environmental problems

News

“Betty Crocker” Farming On The Way Out

By Daniel Winters March 4, 2010

“If you build something up to be a house of cards, it can be easily knocked down. We can’t live in a house of cards.” – RENE VAN ACKER GM no silver bullet STAFF When 400 of the world’s experts got together at a symposium six years ago to brainstorm a way to increase biological

News

Food Safety System Falls Short

By Lorraine Stevenson March 4, 2010

“If we’re at all concerned about periodic outbreaks of foodborne illness that are very dramatic in terms of newsworthiness, or public interest, then we really have to get at the nuts and bolts of the food safety system.” – RICK HOLLEY Canada’s system for protecting its citizens against foodborne illness is no better today despite

Opinion

Are You Rational?

By Laura Rance-Unger February 25, 2010

Ever wonder why those herbicide ads portray weeds as the silent killer of your yields? Or why farmers cling to the bin keys while markets are rising, only to sweep them clean and race for town after the peak has passed? Or why some farmers will do just about anything to avoid paying taxes –

Crops

Advancing A Sugar Maple Tree For Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson February 25, 2010

“We’re on the right track.” – CLAUDIO STASOLLA, PLANT SCIENCE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA The tree producing Canada’s emblematic red maple leaf may one day find a home on not-so native land: Manitoba The natural range of the sugar maple, with its glorious fall colours and prolific volumes of spring sap, now extends only to

Livestock, Opinion

Industry Should Lead Change Not Balk At It

By Leslie Yeoman February 18, 2010

I personally believe that North Americans will never stop eating their burgers or bacon and eggs. This means the only remedy is to improve living-dying conditions for the animals in our food chain. Iwas born and raised in the city and am exactly the Public mentioned in the Feb. 11 article “Some advice for the

Country Crossroads

Manitoba Women’s Institute Prepares For 100Th Birthday

By Lorraine Stevenson February 18, 2010

“We have to start discussing how we are going to move into this second century.” – ENID CLARK, MANITOBA WOMEN’S INSTITUTE PRESIDENT ABenito Wome n’s Institute member rose from her chair one day in 1947 to voice her worries. While putting her team of horses away for the day, she’d spotted a woman changing a

News

“Alternative” Systems Get Mainstream Funding

By Lorraine Stevenson February 11, 2010

“We’re thinking about more diverse ways of building relationships across the Prairie provinces. We’re not talking about 100-mile diets here.” – STPHANE MCLACHLAN The federal government is providing $1 million for a five-year project in Manitoba to develop more community-based alternative food systems for rural, urban and northern Manitoba. The Community University Research Alliance (CURA)

News, Oilseeds

Veteran Farm Communicator Jack Giles Passes

By Allan Dawson February 11, 2010

Veteran farm writer and communicator Jack Giles, 72, died Jan. 31 in Winnipeg. Giles worked 19 years for Manitoba Agriculture’s communications section. He left to head up communications for the Canola Council of Canada and later Ducks Unlimited Canada. Giles also worked overseas with CUSO. “He was a newsman first and a government worker second,”

Livestock

Project To Develop Manure Setback Guidelines

By Ron Friesen February 4, 2010

“It’s up to government to take it to the next level.” – QIANG ZHANG, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA How far away from a house should a barn be? For people who live near a pig farm, or any other type of livestock operation, the question isn’t an academic one. It’s very real. Ask rural residents for

Daily Network News

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AAFC makes few changes to November S/D report

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