WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 11 (Reuters) – Alliance Grain Traders Inc shares dived as much as 6 percent on Friday after the company reported sharply weaker quarterly earnings and said it was delaying plans for a pasta plant. Continue reading →

Update – Tried to get an interview with Murad in the last couple of days, but his brother Omar says he is too busy travelling and maybe this fall there might be a chance once there are more things to report to interview him.  My response was now maybe is the time to shun friendly media. Continue reading →

[Further update]  Siemens Says   –  Update – I arrived at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg at 6 am Monday, May 7, 2012. By 7 am, they started the angioplasty procedure, and by 8:30 am  I was on the ward recovering. By 4 pm I was on my way home. Continue reading →

Harry Siemens – Increased pork exports will depend on developing and signing new bilateral free trade agreements says Arian de Bekker of Winkler, and a member of Canada Pork International’s Board of Directors. Continue reading →

Canadian farmers have never been older, raising questions over who will produce the country’s food in the coming decades. Continue reading →

HS: So tell me, why are farms getting bigger in Canada as the latest Canada census data shows.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba farmers are consolidating their operations at one of the fastest paces in the country, according to new census numbers released today.

Statistics Canada said that between 2006 and 2011, Manitoba not only posted the biggest decline in the number of farms, at 16.7 per cent, but also the second biggest increase in the size of the average farm, at 13.4 per cent. Continue reading →

Update - I arrived at St. B in Winnipeg 6 am Monday, May 7, 2012. By 7 am, they started the procedure, and by 8:30 I was on the ward recovering. By 4 pm I was on the way home.

They did an angioplasty, meaning the Cardiac Unit at the St. Boniface Hospital at the Bergen Cardiac Centre placed a stent in a blocked bypass since my quad back in September 2007.  Continue reading →

By Harry Siemens  - Increased pork exports will depend on developing and signing new bilateral free trade agreements says Arian de Bekker of Winkler, and a member of Canada Pork International’s Board of Directors.
Addressing the annual meeting of the Manitoba Pork Council recently, de Bekker said in 1990 Canada exported 711 million dollars worth of pork.  That number increased to 3.2 billion dollars in 2011, after  the industry formed Canada Pork International in 1991. Continue reading →

Harry Siemens   - Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, along with the University of Manitoba, is working to develop Best Management Practices (BMPs) to give dairy farmers the tools to better manage the changes outlined in the Livestock Manure and Mortalities Regulation. Continue reading →

Harry Siemens  -  Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, along with the University of Manitoba, is working to develop Best Management Practices (BMPs) to give dairy farmers the tools to better manage the changes outlined in the Livestock Manure and Mortalities Regulation. Continue reading →