PembinaValley

The Central Highlands Easter Sunflower Festival royalty from Emerald, Australia have been enjoying their time greatly since arriving in Altona for this weekend's 60th Manitoba Sunflower Festival (MSF). The Queen Quest exchange between the two communities has been happening for decades, since the early 1980s.

The U18 South Central Cubs have been on quite the run throughout the season, and coach Paul Schaak believes the team can keep it going, achieving their goal of provincial success this weekend.

“I don't know that it's really a joke. It's a fact.” 

This is what Derek “Deep Freeze” Friesen said about the fishing ability of his friend Steve “Bubba” Peters, which has been the subject of various jocular signs around Morden and Winkler for a few months now.  

Salem Home in Winkler has officially achieved Safe Work Certification, becoming one of the first healthcare organizations in Manitoba to earn that designation. The certification falls under the province’s MASH initiative: Manitoba’s Association for Safety and Healthcare, a relatively new program aimed at raising safety standards in healthcare workplaces. 

Showers and thunderstorms crossed Southern Manitoba Tuesday morning, bringing accumulating rainfall to essentially everywhere in the Pembina and Red River Valleys.

Panelists agree that maintaining access under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement should be priority among other trade noise

Canadian trade negotiators should be cautious and be prepared to weather further abrupt policy changes from U.S. president Donald Trump.

A panel on trade and politics at the Seeds Canada conference in Quebec City heard that Canada’s ability to delay trade negotiations could be valuable in finding a way to a successful renegotiation of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

One year to the day a wind-whipped fire forced thousands to flee in the dark of night along one smoke-choked road, the mayor of Jasper acknowledged it was a day of remembrance that some would much rather forget.

Company works with Farming Smarter Association as it searches for options other than the century-old Russet Burbank variety.

Russet Burbank has been the go to potato variety for Canadian farmers and consumers.

This year, McCain Foods in Chin, Alta., has entered a corporate partnership with the Farming Smarter Association to explore the viability of other varieties in its food processing plant for farmers to consider.

Farming Smarter is using one of its commercial plots to do a research trial growing four varieties using six treatments.

The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan has written to the federal government asking for emergency use of strychnine to control gophers
 

The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan wants strychnine reinstated under emergency use provisions.

The organization has asked the federal agriculture and health ministers to “urgently” consider the request.

APAS said there is a significant uncontrolled increase in the population of Richardson’s ground squirrels costing about $9 million a year.

Firm behind plan to build Saskatchewan fertilizer plant had to recently deal with former CEO’s financial problems

 It is full steam ahead at Genesis Fertilizers despite a tumultuous June, say proponents of the proposed Saskatchewan mega-project.

“It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when we get this project off the ground,” said Terry Drabiuk, vice-president of business development with Genesis.

The project is a proposed $2.89 billion, farmer-owned nitrogen fertilizer plant to be built in Belle Plaine, Sask.