Arrests made in mail thefts
Staff / Police have laid charges against four individuals in relation to a series of mail thefts in rural areas surrounding Winnipeg.
RCMP report two adult males from Winnipeg have been arrested and have been charged with a number of offences including possession of stolen mail, identity theft, and fraud. They are scheduled to appear in Winnipeg provincial court in February.
RCMP investigators have sworn warrants of arrest for another adult male and an adult female.
The thefts occurred between October of 2011 and mid-January, 2012 in rural areas surrounding the City of Winnipeg.
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West Europe wheat resists freeze, French durum hit
paris / reuters / Western Europe’s main wheat crop should emerge largely unscathed from severe winter weather in the past month, provided it does not face further stress from rapid swings between freezing and thawing conditions, analysts and crop experts said.
Other winter crops are also expected to have escaped significant losses, with the possible exception of durum and barley in parts of France that may be resown with spring crops.
A spell of extremely cold weather across Europe in late January and early February stoked fears of damage after rapid early growth left some plants less sturdy than usual and with protective snow cover lacking in some areas.
Cold damage to EU grain crops limited so far
paris / reuters / Europe’s recent cold spell has done little damage to winter wheat and barley crops — so far.
Soft wheat production will fall 600,000 tonnes, to 132.7 million tonnes, because of the cold, analyst Strategie Grains said in its latest estimate.
“Our initial analysis is that in most countries, the freezing conditions will not lead to more significant winter crop losses (on wheat and barley) than experienced in a normal year,” the French analyst said.
It stressed however that the impact of the cold weather would not be fully assessed until vegetation growth resumes in the spring.
The countries where crop damage was likely to be most severe were Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and some parts of Romania and Poland, it said.
However, damaged fields would likely be resown with spring crops rather than left to grow at lower yields, it added.
