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Robert Stwalley, a clinical associate professor in Purdue University’s department of agricultural and biological engineering, shows the hog cooling pad technology IHT has now licensed to make and sell in North America. (Photo: Tom Campbell/Purdue Agricultural Communication via Canada NewsWire)
Hogs, Livestock

Farrowing heat pad firm to bring hog cooling pads to market

Manitoba's IHT to offer new system next spring

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A Winnipeg-area company providing heating pad and lighting systems for hog barns is set to add a U.S.-developed line of hog cooling pads to its product lineup. IHT (Innovative Heating Technologies) Group announced Thursday it will make and sell a line of water-cooled pads that use a patented system designed at Purdue University in Indiana,
A young attendee enjoys the 4-H Council craft table.
News

Taking the farm to the city

Popular public education event returns to the Forks

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Agriculture in the City, an event that bridges the gap between urban consumers and agricultural producers, was back at the Forks this year. On March 18, after a three-year hiatus, a corner of the Forks Market in Winnipeg was transformed into a family-focused, hands-on event that promotes agriculture and educates the public about where their
(Screengrab from Merit Functional Foods video via YouTube)
Crops

Merit Foods stakeholder looking to buy company

Burcon 'actively engaged' with company's receiver

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One of the joint-venture owners of Winnipeg pea and canola protein processor Merit Functional Foods says it’s in talks to buy full control of the cash-strapped company. Two days after Merit entered a court-ordered receivership, Vancouver-based Burcon NutraScience announced Friday it “intends to submit a formal proposal to acquire the business.” Burcon said Merit’s receivership
“I think there are a lot of really responsible people out there who can raise chickens to produce eggs and care for them appropriately.”
News

Winnipeg one step closer to urban chickens

Committee votes 3-1 to approve pilot despite animal welfare advocates’ concerns

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A pilot program to allow laying hens inside Winnipeg city limits is a step closer to approval despite the expressed concerns of animal rights advocates.  “There’s always concerns,” said Councilor Ross Eadie. “I think there are a lot of really responsible people out there who can raise chickens to produce eggs and care for them
“There’s a pretty standardized model for how to have backyard chickens in cities.” – Louise May.
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Winnipeg reopens urban chicken debate

Backyard poultry one tool of many toward a healthier society, says proponent

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The City of Winnipeg is reconsidering its ban on chickens in city limits — something proponents say will let people raise food and will regulate urban flocks already in clandestine backyard coops. “I believe it’s a right and it’s an easy thing that we can put in place that can help foster food sovereignty,” said
File photo of signage outside Maple Leaf Foods’ Lagimodiere Boulevard plant in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Hogs, Livestock

Expansions boost Maple Leaf plant’s bacon offerings

Pre-cooked bacon capability sets up Winnipeg plant as 'bacon centre of excellence'

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The Winnipeg pork further-processing plant previously earmarked as Maple Leaf Foods’ “ham centre of excellence” now gets the same billing for bacon. The major Toronto meat processor announced Tuesday it had completed a $182 million, 73,000-square foot expansion at its Lagimodiere Boulevard prepared meats plant, to “significantly” increase its bacon production capacity. The expansion, Maple
brandon flooding
Other, Weather

Precipitation deficits: Province’s western regions not as dry

Is the Brandon region in a surplus — and if so, has it helped?

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By the time you are reading this it will be September, but I have to write this almost a week in advance, so you will have to wait another week for the monthly weather roundup, overall summer weather review, who did the best job predicting this summer’s weather and the look ahead to see what
File photo of Agropur’s fluid milk plant in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Agropur to shut Winnipeg fluid milk plant

Work to be consolidated in B.C., Alberta

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Dairy co-operative Agropur will consolidate its fluid milk production for Western Canada further west this fall, as it moves to shut its operation in Winnipeg. The Quebec-based co-operative announced Tuesday it will close its Winnipeg fluid milk plant effective Sept. 24 — affecting 48 jobs — and transfer that work to plants at Edmonton, Victoria
Versatile’s Fury high-speed compact disc in transport mode. (Versatile-ag.com)
Crops

Versatile to move tillage equipment work to Winnipeg

Buhler to halt production at Vegreville next fall

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The company that makes Versatile tractors and tillage equipment is set to consolidate those product lines at its plant in Winnipeg, pulling the work out of its plant in east-central Alberta. Farm equipment maker Buhler Industries announced Friday it will halt production at the former Ezee-On manufacturing plant at Vegreville, Alta. in September 2021 and
GrainViz engineer Braden Pierce explains the system to farmers at Ag Days at Brandon, Man. in 2018. (Screengrab from GFM/Greg Berg video)
Crops

Agco to buy GrainViz system’s Winnipeg developer

System due out in limited release this fall

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U.S. farm machinery firm Agco has set up a deal to buy its Winnipeg partner in the development of the GSI GrainViz grain monitoring system. Georgia-based Agco announced Friday it now has an agreement to acquire 151 Research, with which it had signed an “exclusive technology partnership” back in December 2018 to develop the GrainViz

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