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9 08, 2018

Maple Bacon Cupcakes

For my recent milstone birthday my sister in law made me these awesome cupcakes. She used the recipe found on the site, Will Cook For Smiles. They tasted as good as they looked !

She also made me Pig Lanterns which now hang over my desk

 

Ingredients

Cupcakes:

4 egg whites room temperature

1 cup of white granulated sugar

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9 08, 2018

Kudos

Hypor BBQ Battle 2018

It was a beautiful day for a BBQ, about 23C with the occasional gust of wind; it felt hotter though.

About 150 people from across Alberta and Montana chowed down on 300 racks of ribs from Maple Leaf Pork. Nine animal nutrition companies competed for the TTT Stock Co.-Hypor BBQ Battle trophy

9 08, 2018

Pork Chops

Alberta Livestock Expo

The date the 2nd annual Alberta Livestock Expo will take place in Lethbridge at Exhibition Park October 10th & 11th.

This year the trade show has expanded to two days. In addition on Wednesday October 10th there will be a Beef Rib BBQ Competition. Then on Thursday October 11th a Hog Carcass Competition.

Booths are

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9 08, 2018

Farm Focus Initiative A Step In the Right Direction

To stay commercially viable producers obviously have to be more efficient and this has great implications in the UK as the future re Brexit is still decidedly unclear. UK indoor output lags behind the rest of Europe which is very worrying. Significantly all our European competitors have research farms – the Danes also use

9 08, 2018

European Court Chills Gene Editing Technology

Europe’s top court has ruled that new crop varieties developed by gene editing fall under the same regulatory regime as genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).
Gene editing involves only the genes already resident in a species; GMO technology involves transferring a gene or genes from one species to another.

 “Organisms obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs and are, in

9 08, 2018

Despite Trade Tensions – Demand for Food will Continue

Trade issues and resulting tensions combined with people in Canada and the United States alike who’d like to see trade issues dominate the media airwaves for whatever reasons continue to demand outcomes on profitability for farmers.

There are countries and segments of each industry that like to float non-monetary trade barriers and irritants, to I

9 08, 2018

On The Edge With Siemens Says

Serving farming and farmers a real privilege

We’re into August and summer keeps slipping by but we’ve had some great summer days and early mornings and sunset evenings in southern Manitoba. While the yields aren’t quite what farmers had hopped at the time of this writing the fall harvest hashtag #harvest18 is underway. It seems

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9 08, 2018

HyLife Continues to Invest in Rural Manitoba

HyLife, a Manitoba integrated pork processor headquartered in La Broquerie, with business around the world, earlier this year held an open house to announce the completion of its pork processing facility expansion and upgrade project. The bulk of its investment focuses on the modernization of the integrated pork processing plant in Neepawa, MB.

On July

9 08, 2018

A Revolutionary Disinfectant and Cleaner That Works Quickly and Safely

Prevail is a revolutionary disinfectant and cleaner that is quickly becoming the go-to product in the world of Animal Health in Canada and the United States. The manufacturer, Virox Technologies Inc., is a Canadian company in Oakville, Ontario.

The company bases the revolution product its patented Accelerated Hydrogen Peroxide or AHP technology and makes it

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9 08, 2018

Managing Water Intake

In 2017, on-farm best management practices were audited on a total of 24 farms throughout Canada as part of a national project titled From Innovation to Adoption: On-farm Demonstration of Swine Research. This article is part of an eight-part series reporting on these audits.

Among nutrients, water is required in the greatest amount but quite