At Manitoba Ag Days 2025, Premier Wab Kinew talked about the plan to protect Manitoba’s trade now that U.S. President Donald Trump is in office and threatening tariffs against Canada.
Rick Wright of Cattle Consulting doesn’t see any signs that the cattle price gravy train will be slowing any time soon. “There’s more than just optimism out there. The fundamentals support a pretty good market moving forward,” he said. “Will it be better than 2023? Maybe not, but I think it will be every bit[...]
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.[...]
Two more western Manitoba communities will have Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) offices for in-person agricultural insurance service this summer: Shoal Lake and Virden.
Manitoba got another dose of wild weather June 15-16. Worries about sandblasting joined earlier hail damage over the Father’s Day weekend. A powerful wind storm blew into western Manitoba overnight June 15, followed by strong winds that whipped soil airborne. In Sinclair, 14 km west of Reston, high winds damaged a local elevator. Western Manitoba[...]
Premier Wab Kinew has promised a Manitoba trade office in Washington D.C. to strengthen U.S. trade and offer a direct line to the incoming Trump administration.
Manitoba’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a year was found in a commercial poultry farm in the RM of Portage la Prairie in late November.