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18 Per Cent Jump In Use Of Food Banks In 2009

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Highlights of HungerCount for Manitoba 47,925 individuals were assisted by a food bank in March 2009 +18 per cent change since March 2008 49 per cent are children 15.5 per cent report employment income 3 per cent receive Employment Insurance 54.5 per cent receive social assistance 10 per cent receive disability-related income supports 66 per
Crops, Livestock

What’s Up – for Nov. 26, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 21-28 – Canadian Western Agribition, Evraz Place (formerly Regina Exhibition Park), Regina. For more info visit www.agribition.com. Nov. 26 – Keystone Agricultural Producers District No. 3 annual meeting, 1:30 p. m., University of Manitoba research station, Carman. Nov. 26 – Keystone Agricultural Producers District No.
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In Brief… – for Nov. 19, 2009

Shorter shipping stretches sought: A private members bill now before Parliament would reduce the maximum transportation time for ruminant livestock from 52 hours to 12 hours and from 36 to eight hours for pigs, poultry and horses. Bill C-468 was tabled by Brossard-La Prairie MP Alexandra Mendes October 28, according to the Canadian Coalition for
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Ballots In The Mail For MCGA Election

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“The best thing I could hope for is that as soon as a person gets a ballot they mark it and send it back.” – BILL ROSS Six farmers – four incumbents and two others – are running to fill four directors’ seats around the Manitoba Canola Growers Association’s (MCGA) board table. The incumbents seeking
Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

RR Alfalfa Sparks Debate At CSTA

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“All it takes is one plot.” – LES JACOBSON, MFSA European forage seed companies are starting to require official testing and GM-free certification from Canadian exporters because of the existence of Roundup Ready alfalfa in test plots. “We are aware of Roundup Ready alfalfa trials in Canada and (are) therefore not happy, since Europe has
Cereals, Country Crossroads, Pulses

SUNOPTA RELEASE

“Our pea fibre is a natural, allergen-free functional fibre with proven health benefits that fits well into the SunOpta fibre portfolio…” Best Cooking Pulses of Portage la Prairie will be supplying pea fibre to the U. S.-based SunOpta Ingredients Group, which is expanding its portfolio of functional fibres to include organic and conventional pea fibre.
Opinion

Sow Stalls: Ethics, Perceptions, And Animal Welfare

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What if we granted that, of course animals can be raised for food, but that tightly caging them in gestation stalls is unethical because they are mammals? Dana Medoro is associate professor of American literature at the University of Manitoba and a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Committee with the Winnipeg Humane Society. The
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What’s Up – for Nov. 5, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 5-8 – Manitoba Livestock Exposition, Brandon. For more info contact Karen Oliver at 204-726-3590 or visit www.brandonfairs.com. Nov. 6– Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op fall marketing meeting, noon, Smitty’s Family Restaurant, Steinbach. Agenda items include hog industry updates; sales, hog and feed grains outlook, animal welfare.

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