A director on the Manitoba Farm Mediation Board says maintaining communications within the family and with creditors is key to dealing with the economic crisis being experienced on Manitoba hog farms.
Manitoba Health and Healthy Living is reporting 163 new confirmed cases of H1N1 flu this past week based on positive lab tests from Cadham Provincial Laboratories.
Manitoba’s hog producers will now have access to a Targeted Advance Payment (TAP) under the AgriStability program, Federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Gerry Ritz and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk announced.
Rural small businesses will benefit from the new Rural Small Businesses Operating Credit Guarantee program (RSB), Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk announced.
Manitoba experienced remarkable population growth in the last 12 months, jumping by 14,007 people, Competitiveness, Training and Trade Minister Andrew Swan said.
At approximately 6:45 am on June 24, 2009, Steinbach RCMP received a call of a serious motor vehicle collision that occurred at the intersection of Highway 206 and 311.
Portage la Prairie RCMP and Portage ambulance responded to a complaint of an assault at a residence on Dakota Tipi First Nation on June 20, 2009 at approximately 6:00 AM.
On June 20, 2009 around 6:15 AM, Portage la Prairie RCMP and Portage ambulance responded to a complaint of an assault at a residence on Long Plain First Nation.
A director with the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says the pork industry has reached a crisis point where some method needs to be found to get cash into the hands of producers.
Manitoba Pork Council is calling on the province’s pork producers to write personal letters to government and on the public to support producers by understanding the situation and by buying pork.
