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SUNOPTA RELEASE

November 12, 2009

“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

By Dana Medoro November 5, 2009

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

News

What’s Up – for Nov. 5, 2009

November 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.

News, Oilseeds

What Is The Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network?

October 29, 2009

The Food Development Centre at Portage la Prairie is a special operating agency of the Manitoba government and is involved in the development of grains and oil-seeds, fruits, vegetables, meat and bakery products for the supermarket shelf, as well as agricultural products for health. The FDC operates under a licence from the Canadian Food Inspection

Livestock, Opinion

Sow Stall Issue Won’t Go Away Until Sow Stalls Do

October 29, 2009

In reference to Ron Friesen’s article: I attended the debate at the University of Manitoba referred to in Ron Friesen’s Oct. 22 article “Debate Reflects Deep Divide Over Sow Stall Ban.” I was shocked that the activists, the Office of the Chief Vet represented by Dr. Wayne Lees and the proponents of sow stalls represented

Livestock

Genetic Condition May Cause Bee Colony Collapse

By Ron Friesen October 29, 2009

“It won’t get into bees unless IAPV is integrated into them.” – ILAN SELA An Israeli researcher is claiming a possible breakthrough in the hunt for the cause of a mysterious die-off of honeybees in different parts of the world. A genetic predisposition to an obscure virus may make bees vulnerable to another as-yet-unknown agent

News

What’s Up – for Oct. 29, 2009

October 29, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 1-3 – Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference, Greenwood Inn, 1715 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. Early-bird registration deadline Oct. 15. For more info call 204-423-2089 or visit www.manitobafarmwomensconference.ca. Nov. 1-4 – Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Marriott Ottawa, 100 Kent St., Ottawa. For more info visit www.cwfhb.org.

Hogs, Livestock, News

Manure Management Initiative Expands Its Board

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 29, 2009

The Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative (“Manure Initiative”) board of directors recently welcomed seven new members to the board. “Since its inception, the Manure Initiative has made every effort to form a board with a good cross-section of government (Agriculture, Conservation), academic (University of Manitoba), and agri-industry (Manitoba Pork Council, Maple Leaf Foods) expertise,” it

News

Payments Or Prosecutions Wanted

By Allan Dawson October 29, 2009

“We’ve noticed as grain companies have gotten bigger and head offices have been elsewhere it has been tougher for us to get the checkoffs from them.” – KAP PRESIDENT IAN WISHART Keys tone Agr icul tural Producers (KAP) wants grain companies that don’t col lect the general farm organization’s checkoff prosecuted. KAP relies on a

Cereals, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Functional Food Business A Tough Sell

By Lorraine Stevenson October 29, 2009

“I think we’ll all say that the commercialization piece has been the slowest to happen.” – LEE ANNE MURPHY, CO-ORDINATOR OF THE MANITOBA AGRI-HEALTH RESEARCH NETWORK (MAHRN) Scott Sigvaldason sold part of the family’s 106-year-old farm, rented out the rest and invested about $800,000 of his own money to develop a product that could provide

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives University of Manitoba

SUNOPTA RELEASE

What’s Up – for Nov. 5, 2009

What Is The Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network?

Sow Stall Issue Won’t Go Away Until Sow Stalls Do

Genetic Condition May Cause Bee Colony Collapse

What’s Up – for Oct. 29, 2009

Manure Management Initiative Expands Its Board

Payments Or Prosecutions Wanted

Functional Food Business A Tough Sell

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