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From clockwise at left: Riley and Lee-Anne Kemp, Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek, and Wayne and Maria McDonald of Manitoba.
Guide Business, Livestock

Three farm families, five years later

Country Guide revisits three young Manitoba farm families building their future in agriculture

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Reading Time: 2 minutes In 2012, Country Guide discovered a cluster of young farmers near out-of-the-way Cartwright, Man. They were all searching for ways to start small in the heart of big-farm Canada, and they all saw their best chance in a combination of direct marketing and holistic practices. To some readers, it seemed like a dream. To others, […] Read more
Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek of Fresh Roots Farm.
Guide Business, Livestock

Five years on: Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek

Country Guide revisits Fresh Roots Farm and its focus on direct-marketing

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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
After five years, Lee-Anne and Riley are convinced they made the right move. In fact, they’re more enthusiastic than ever about the future for new farmers.
Guide Business, Livestock

Five years on: Riley and Lee-Anne Kemp

Country Guide revisits two Manitoba beef producers building their future

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In the five years since Country Guide last caught up with Riley and Lee-Anne Kemp, their lives have become even more hectic. For starters, their family has grown to three children — six-year-old Lexi, three-year-old Elliot and Halle, who just turned six months old. Riley still works off farm as a teacher at the local […] Read more
Speaking July 5 at the Crop Diagnostic School in Carman, Manitoba Agriculture’s Terry Buss shows a Roundup Ready 2 soybean plot dying due to dicamba drifting over from the Xtend soybean plot at left. (Allan Dawson photo)
Crops, Machinery, Soybeans, Weather

Xtend soybeans expand options, but be dicamba-drift aware

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Reading Time: 4 minutes New dicamba- and glyphosate-tolerant soybeans offer more weed control options and are another tool to address herbicide-tolerant weeds, but farmers need to take steps to avoid dicamba drift and spray tank residue, Manitoba officials say. What’s been happening in Arkansas underscores the risk dicamba drift presents. The U.S. state of Arkansas on Friday announced a […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Southern Saskatchewan dry, but Prairies mostly OK for now

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Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada — Dry conditions in southern Saskatchewan are cause for vigilance, but rain could still pull out a healthy harvest, according to a provincial soil and nutrient specialist. The area of concern lies within a triangle shape, with the northern tip at Saskatoon, one arm stretching southeast to Weyburn, Estevan and the U.S. border, […] Read more
(Photo courtesy United Soybean Board)
Crops, Markets, Soybeans

Soybeans elbow their way to top of Prairie market

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — As soybeans rise in acreage across Western Canada, many are wondering which crop will bear the brunt of their sudden expansion. “Guys are trying to figure out — is it squeezing out canola or peas?” said Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers. “It’s one of those products.” Flax has also taken […] Read more
(Jade Markus photo for CNS Canada)
Crops, Weather

Washouts shut Hudson Bay Railway for shipping season

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Flooding and rail bed washouts on sections of northern Manitoba’s Hudson Bay Railway have led the line’s owner to suspend its operations indefinitely. The closure of the portion of the line running from Amery, Man., about 50 km northeast of Gillam, north to Hudson Bay at Churchill, all but ensures no Prairie grain, other than […] Read more
(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock

New Manitoba PED case pushes envelope

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Southeastern Manitoba’s latest on-farm cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) include one outside the buffer zones in which earlier cases have been found. According to Manitoba Pork, the province’s chief veterinary officer (CVO) on Wednesday confirmed positive tests for PED on a hog nursery operation outside an existing five-kilometre buffer zone. That case — along […] Read more
(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

PED’s spread alarms piglet-exporting Manitoba

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters — The deadly pig disease PEDv (porcine epidemic diarrhea virus) is spreading faster than expected in Manitoba, Canada’s biggest piglet-producing province. The number of cases since the beginning of May, now at 10, matches the total from the past three years combined, although the outbreak is not comparable in scale to PEDv’s […] Read more

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