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Traceability Important But Elusive

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Earlier this month, Keystone Agricultural Producers attended a research and development conference for agriculture and food traceability. Trace R&D was hosted by the University of Manitoba and it focused on examining traceability technology and looking into a national traceability research strategy. A considerable portion of the event highlighted perspectives on traceability from different points in
Cereals, Crops

What’s Up – for Jul. 16, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 July 16 – Manitoba Zero Tillage Research Association annual summer tour, 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., MZTRA farm, 12 miles north of Brandon on Highway 10 and half a mile east on Hwy. 353. All welcome, lunch provided. For more info call 204-725-3939 or
Livestock

Carbon Offsets Could Reduce The Stink From Manure Lagoons

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“Ninety-five per cent of the odour is gone.” – LEONARD HOFER Cutting the stink from manure storage lagoons doesn’t earn farmers a cent, but capturing and destroying the methane lagoons create might. Preferred Carbon, Farmers Edge Precision Consulting, the University of Manitoba and Starlite Colony have set up a pilot project to study to see
Oilseeds, Opinion

Beneficial Plant Sterols Not Available To Canadians

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Health Canada’s minister should listen to her provincial colleagues, all overwhelmed by the costs of health care, not the least from the public cost of drugs to treat CHD. The recently released report by Food and Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC) titled Food Regulatory Systems: Canada’s Performance in the Global Marketplace is yet another study
News

New Park In Memory Of Late Conservationist Don Alexander

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The green and fertile farmland seen from this vantage point on the edge of the Pembina Escarpment was once prehistoric Lake Amasses. It’s fitting that a place that affords such a view is named for the late Don Alexander, a veteran conservationist and conservation leader. Alexander, who died from cancer Jan. 20 at age 74,
Dairy cattle, Livestock

SARA In The Stomach Makes Dairy Cows Moody

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SARA can be an economically important problem for milk producers. A little-known disease lurking silently in the rumens of dairy cows may be robbing milk producers of hundreds of dollars in lost production without anyone realizing it. It’s basically acid indigestion but with a fancy scientific name: subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA). SARA is a metabolic
Hogs, News

Pork Industry’s Chickens Come Home To Roost

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One by one, hog farmers trooped to the microphone, struggling with a balky sound system to tell stories of financial ruin and to appeal for government aid. “At least give us some dignity to retire after working for 45 years,” Menno Bergen pleaded with a speakers’ panel of politicians and industry officials. Bergen put his
Livestock

New Filter Removes P From Water

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“It’s affordable to point where we think individual farmers could run it.” – ROBERT GERVAIS When farmer and longtime conservationist Gordon Orchard first heard about a relatively simple process for removing dissolved phosphorus from water he thought it was too good to be true. After all, there’s no disputing there’s too much of it in
Livestock

Hay Foot, Straw Foot Better For Pigs

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Pigs can be healthier and more productive with straw under their feet instead of just bare concrete, research at the University of Manitoba indicates. A three-year study at the University of Manitoba’s National Centre for Livestock and the Environment found that group-housed gestating sows on straw had fewer leg and hoof problems and better productivity.
News

AMM’s Leaders Want Rural Medical School

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Manitoba’s budget for recruiting foreign doctors would be better spent providing medical training to people from rural and remote communities, a Brandon physican who is proposing a 25-seat medical school for Brandon University says. Dr. Derry Decter gained more support for the idea at a meeting of southwestern municipal leaders last week. They gave him

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