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This Is Efficiency?

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We’ve all heard tales of the inefficiencies that have plagued centrally planned economies in far off places. The compounding effects – sluggish supply chains, lower productivity, missed delivery targets and people who could be working standing around with nothing to do – eventually drag the economy so deeply into an abyss, it takes a revolution
Livestock

Auction Yards Might Shut Early For Summer

– Gene Parks, Pipestone Livestock Sales “…marketings have been declining and could result in (an) early summer shutdown…” The movement of cattle to auction yards in Manitoba picked up somewhat during the week ended May 14 from the previous week’s level, but the numbers were beginning to slow overall as producers in the province begin
Livestock, News

Raising Cattle On Some Of Europe’s Most Expensive Farmland

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“There is no castration in Belgium.” – DRIES TI MMERMAN Dries Timmerman is one beef producer who does not boast that his animals are “easy calvers,” but he can claim a pretty good calving percentage – 99.9 per cent. Timmerman raises purebred Belgian Blues – known here as Belgian White and Blue, a breed whose
Livestock

Cattle Sneak Past Briefly Faltering Loonie

– Robin Hill, Heartland LivestockServices, Virden “I think we’ve seen most of the cleaning out of the cattle from the yards that we are going to see.” The arrival of pre-c ipitation across Manitoba helped to slow the movement of cattle to the auction yards in the province during the week ended May 7. However,
Crops, Oilseeds

Field Testing For A New GM Flax Is Put On Hold

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We’re not going to do anything that’s illicit. But I think research has to go on.” – RANDALL WESELAKE AUniversity of Alberta researcher has bowed to pressure from the flax industry and cancelled plans to conduct plot trials on a genetically modified flax this spring. Randall Weselake, the University of Alberta professor developing the new
Livestock

Demand Offsets Dollar, Sustains Values

There was some fairly brisk movement of cattle to the auction yards in Manitoba during the week ended April 30. The marketings were largely dependent on the region of the province. Values for the cattle sold were able to hold steady, if not improve slightly, from the previous week’s level. “I would say there was
Cereals, Crops

Grain Industry Worried By New Toxin Limits

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Canada’s grain industry wants safer food, but it doubts pending regulations to restrict exposure to ochratoxin A (OTA), a suspected carcinogen in grains and other foods, will be effective. In the meantime, those regulations threaten to add costs throughout the pipeline from farmer to food processor. “There really needs to be a supply chain solution,”
Country Crossroads

Visit Whitewater Lake Wildlife Management Area

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Manitoba has numerous Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) scattered about the province, some small and others quite large. One of the largest is the Whitewater Lake WMA in southwestern Manitoba, between the towns of Boissevain and Deloraine. If you’re interested in birds, or looking for a new spot to visit, you might like to check it
Opinion

Battling World Hunger By Increasing Global Production?

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U. S. farmers began to believe that they had a responsibility to increase production and exports so that the hungry of the world could be fed. For some time now, we have focused our attention on the twin issues of production and exports of major crops as a way of examining the export-oriented policies that
Livestock

Steady Demand Supports Prices

Marketi ngs of cattle at the auction yards in Manitoba during the week ended April 23 were again fairly strong, with the numbers dependent on the region of the province. Price levels for most classes of cattle held steady if not a bit stronger. However, there continued to be large discounts for poor-quality and fleshy

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