A new technology designed to reduce the level of airborne contaminants within livestock barns offers improved comfort for animals and barn workers and improved productivity.
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association is very disappointed by the passage at second reading of Bill C-474, legislation that threatens to introduce non-science based factors into the approval of new seed technologies.
A new low cost technology for recovering phosphorus from liquid swine manure is expected to interest Manitoba farmers facing new phosphorus-based limits on the application of livestock manure fertilizer.
The Province of Manitoba today continued its support for collaborative efforts between northern Manitoba and Israel, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk said, as she presented the Jewish National Fund (JNF) of Canada Prairie Region with a $334,000 cheque.