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Hog Barn Timbers Rise Again In Clearwater

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“He took a hog barn, and turned it into something that would look good anywhere in the province of Manitoba.” – DAVID GUILFORD “If we can raise a barn together, why can’t we deconstruct a barn together? I think we still don’t recognize the value of old buildings.” – LANCELOT COAR The community-owned restaurant in
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Pork Industry Awards

Manitoba Pork Council (MPC) has announced the winners of its 2009 Pork Industry Awards recognizing excellence in Manitoba’s hog industry. The awards are presented to individuals, groups and organizations that have made significant contributions to the industry. Karin Wittenberg, of the University of Manitoba faculty of agricultural and food sciences, received the council’s Education award
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Nexera Growing At Bunge Altona

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The owners have changed a few times and so have the oilseeds it crushes, but the processing plant farmers built here in 1946 still epitomizes the concept of “value added.” In fact, this plant has been “value adding” since long before the words became part of the Prairie lexicon. Canola, the oilseed it processes almost
Opinion

Wetlands vital to nutrient management

The Government of Manitoba’s March 25 throne speech includes a statement identifying more research being undertaken to reduce nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg. This comes at the right time as Ducks Unlimited Canada’s (DUC) new water quality research in the Broughton’s Creek watershed in southwest Manitoba shows the need to assist landowners as a critical
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Corporate Farming Arrives On The Prairies

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“This industry has been looking for additional capital… Agriculture is a great place to be.” – LARRY RUUD, ONE EARTH FARMS Aone-million-acre grain and cattle farm planned by Sprott Resource Corp. represents a fork in the Prairie road for Canadian agriculture, but the super-farm’s president and chief executive says family farms have more to gain
Opinion, Poultry

Debating Feed Contamination And Foodborne Illness Links

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Whether animal feed contaminated by salmonella or E. coli 0157:H7 contributes to the overall burden of food-borne illness in humans is a contentious issue. In a letter March 26 to The Manitoba Co-operator, Graham Cooper, executive director of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada indicated that the Canadian feed industry has adopted measures to prevent
Livestock

MRAC Elects New Chair

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Barry Routledge, a beef and grains producer from Lenore, Man., was named chair of the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council (MRAC) board of directors at its annual meeting March 19. “I look forward to working with Barry as the new chair,” said Ted Eastley, MRAC executive director. “Barry’s unique ability to ‘throw a grenade into the
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Four Degrees Either Way Is A Big Deal, Says Expert

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Climate change skeptics like to point out that if the weatherman can’t predict the weather with much accuracy, how can scientists be sure that global warming is actually happening? The answer is that putting together a weather forecast involves many often conflicting short-term variables. Analyzing climate trends over the long term is much easier, because
Opinion

Feed millers go above and beyond safety regs

The March 12 Manitoba Co-operator features an article in which Richard Holley of the University of Manitoba suggests that there are insufficient regulatory and manufacturing controls in Canada to prevent the widespread inclusion of pathogens in animal feed (“Stop recycling pathogens in animal feed,” March 12, page 27). He is quoted as saying that “there’s
Cereals, News

Eliminate Unprofitable Farmers, Report Recommends

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A new report proposes a radical and drastic solution to Canada’s chronic farm income problems: get rid of unprofitable farmers. The report by the Canada West Foundation recommends “an orderly retreat from the industry” by farmers who depend on government subsidies and off-farm jobs to stay in operation. The Calgary-based public policy think-tank says agriculture

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