Reading Time: 5 minutes Some growers opt for their region’s top crops. It only makes sense, after all, to reduce your risks by effectively pooling everyone’s combined experience. Others, though, look for ways to be different. They want to boost their margins, and they feel they need to be entrepreneurial if they’re going to move the yardsticks. For those […] Read more
How about a ‘nutty’ alternative crop?
Buckwheat is garnering attention as much more than ‘just’ a cover crop
New federal standard to expand beer ingredient options
Reading Time: 3 minutes More variety in allowable ingredients and more requirements for declarations are now part of the federal rules on what can be called beer in Canada. The federal government on May 1 announced “modernized” beer standards under Canada’s Food and Drug Regulations (FDR) — the rules laying out the requirements to be met by a product […] Read more
Biosecurity, disease reduction program for commercial Manitoba beekeepers
This aid under the Ag Action Manitoba Program for Farmers might be short lived
Reading Time: 2 minutes It may be a case of use it or lose it for Manitoba’s beekeepers. They’re being urged to apply now for help under a cost-sharing program that’s aimed at commercial beekeepers trying to control diseases which may only be available this year. “There is a maximum of $3,500 in the program,” Rheal Lafreniere, Manitoba Agriculture’s […] Read more
Five years on: Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek
Country Guide revisits Fresh Roots Farm and its focus on direct-marketing
Reading Time: 7 minutes Back in 2012, Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek’s biggest goal was to quit their off-farm jobs and farm full time. It’s something that Stozek has more or less managed to do, although Schram still works part-time at her parents’ ranch supply store. Schram and Stozek originally established Fresh Roots Farm as a Community Supported Agriculture […] Read more
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