A life-threatening health scare is not enough to dash the dreams of the Truco Trick Riders in southeastern Saskatchewan
CARNDUFF, Sask. — Some ride for the adrenalin rush. Some ride for the roar of the crowd. Others ride simply for survival. After a year in the hospital, Kyla Dyer does not take for granted the fact that she and her horse, Patches, are here tonight at the Carnduff Ag Society grounds to perform. She […] Read moreTag Archives Royal Manitoba Winter Fair
Fair offers urbanities a window into Ag.
BRANDON — An aggressively hungry ewe. Newborn chicks flopping and flipping a few minutes after cracking their eggs. Horses clopping down the alleys, hefty-muscled and throwing off that anxious-for-the-ring energy. Fur, straw, boots, company-branded gear, ropes, helmets, and that smell of animals, mini-doughnuts, manure and leather. The agricultural world was in fine display inside the […] Read more
VIDEO: Fun at the fair – photo essay
Last week’s Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon allowed thousands of families, youth, rural and urban people to get up close and personal with livestock. | Ed White photos and video
Man. livestock show says no to straw bedding
The high cost of managing the material is given as reason for banning it from this year’s Manitoba Royal Winter Fair
Anyone who beds animals at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair this year won’t be doing it with straw. The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba, which holds the major agro-tourism event in Brandon each year, says straw animal bedding will no longer be used at its events due to the cost of dealing with the used material. […] Read more
Ukrainians make new home on Prairies
Like millions of fellow Ukrainians who left in a panic following Russia’s invasion more than a year ago, Liudmyla Todorova’s family has faced wrenching dislocations.
Burrowing owl teaches about cattle
The Manitoba Burrowing Owl Recovery Program uses Bindi to show the public that grazing is environmentally important
Many urbanites don’t connect cattle farming with environmental preservation, even if they don’t see cattle as destructive. Few realize that cattle actually create the environment that endangered burrowing owls need to survive.
