Roberta Rampton

WINNIPEG – Gamblers can lose a lot more than their money, according to a counsellor who has worked on the front lines in rural Manitoba. “Usually, most people who are suffering from a gambling problem have low self-esteem, if any self-esteem left after the period of time they have been gambling,” said Kathie Neufeld, a […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The Canadian Canola Growers Association has given up trying to get the Federal Court of Canada to help stop the new canola futures contract. Court records show the growers’ lawyers filed a motion to end the court action on Oct. 10. The growers had asked the court several weeks ago to instruct the […] Read more

WINNIPEG – Industry officials are calling on pork producers to take extra care when giving needles to their animals after the tip of an injection needle was discovered in a shipment of pork to a Japanese company. Ted Muir, public relations director for Manitoba Pork, confirmed the marketing agency learned of the incident, which involved […] Read more

WINNIPEG – Aganetha Dyck was checking her exhibit at the Winnipeg Art Gallery one day when she saw two people making a beeline toward the wedding dress, the centerpiece of The Extended Wedding Party. The people were “terribly excited” at first, she said. “But they came within 10 feet, stopped in horror, and turned around […] Read more

WINNIPEG – Amid the flurry of talk in government and industry circles about Manitoba’s hog production doubling by the turn of the century, J. M. Schneider Inc. took action last week. Schneider will invest $40 million in a new slaughtering and processing plant in the province. When completed in 1997, it is expected to handle […] Read more

WINNIPEG – Statistics Canada’s latest crop production estimates confirm that farmers can remain optimistic about this year’s crop prices. The estimates, released Oct. 6, were in line with trade predictions and will not have much of a bearing on prices, according to grain trade representatives. “I guess we can put the production side behind us […] Read more

WINNIPEG – Manitoba sugar beet producers could be bringing in their third largest haul on record if the weather co-operates. Ken Yuill, president of the Manitoba Sugar Beet Producers Association, said about 400,000 tonnes of beets could be harvested this year. Last year, farmers set an all-time record of 505,000 tonnes. “Last year (conditions) were […] Read more

WINNIPEG – Keith Pearn calls this summer “the pits” for farmers in Manitoba’s Assiniboine River Valley. “We were flooded out in the spring in our valley land and many of us were dried out in the middle of the summer on our land up on top. So it’s been a rough summer.” Pearn said he […] Read more

WINNIPEG – Following an unsuccessful court bid to stop a new canola trading contract, the Canadian Canola Growers Association is resorting to more obscure measures. While association president Doug Sword said he’s disappointed with the Federal Court of Canada decision that cleared the way for the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange to continue with its new canola […] Read more

WINNIPEG – A new loan program designed to help Manitoba farmers get into the bison business is bullish for the industry, says the president of a provincial bison association. “Up until now, basically the only entrants into the bison industry have been the guys with cash or some equity in another area that they could […] Read more