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17 Participants Take Part In Exploring Farm Dream Course

By Lorraine Stevenson March 11, 2010

Andrea Swain and Jeff Cottes have good educations, secure jobs and a home in Winnipeg. They also have a dream: to leave the city and start a small market garden, living a simpler life so one can stay home with their two young children. The pair have their eye on a piece of property near

News, Oilseeds

In Briefs continued from page 2 – for Mar. 11, 2010

March 11, 2010

Correction: W434 is a new winter wheat from Rob Graf of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada adapted to Manitoba and was recently supported for registration. Its winter wheat survival is rated similar to Radiant and CDC Falcon. Incorrect information appeared last week. Joint effort: The University of Manitoba and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives have

News

Farmers Willing To Tackle Climate Change

By Ron Friesen March 11, 2010

Farmers can adapt to climate change, but they need the necessary tools to help them do it, a conference in Winnipeg last week heard. If they don’t get them, agriculture in Western Canada will take a big step backwards, Barry Routledge, a farmer from Lenore, Manitoba, told the gathering. Farmers will not take unnecessary risks

Crops

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

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17 Participants Take Part In Exploring Farm Dream Course

In Briefs continued from page 2 – for Mar. 11, 2010

Farmers Willing To Tackle Climate Change

Holistic Approach To Phosphorus Management Urged

“Betty Crocker” Farming On The Way Out

Food Safety System Falls Short

Advancing A Sugar Maple Tree For Manitoba

Industry Should Lead Change Not Balk At It

Manitoba Women’s Institute Prepares For 100Th Birthday

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