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Funding boosts beekeeping extension
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Funding boosts beekeeping extension

The Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association extension and research program has another $20,000 for the coming year

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The Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association (MBA) hopes a jolt of funding will help bolster research and extension efforts. The Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), which blends commodity groups for wheat and barley, flax, sunflowers, corn and winter cereals, announced in January that it would be providing $10,000 for the MBA’s Knowledge Research Transfer Program in the coming
Crop insurance figures growing fast
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Crop insurance figures growing fast

High crop prices now mean record coverage for the 2022, while last year’s drought will trigger record payouts on the 2021 crop

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Crop insurance figures keep getting bigger. The 2021 group season will generate around $650 million in payouts due to low yields during the drought. And the resulting higher prices will mean that is followed by a record $4.66 billion in crop insurance coverage for the 2022 growing season. That $4.66 billion in coverage is based
Crops, News, Other

Worst crop in 15 years not bad financially for some

Good prices and good crop insurance coverage helped

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Warren McCutcheon is too young to recall much about the 1988 drought, but based on stories he’s heard, he suspects a combination of factors resulted in many Manitoba farmers faring better after the 2021 drought. The 1988 drought, dubbed at the time ‘the worst since the Dirty ’30s,’ triggered $790 million ($1.57 billion in today’s
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Crops

Richardson crush plant workers to vote on new offer

UFCW team endorses latest offer

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Unionized workers at Richardson International’s oilseed crush plant at Lethbridge, Alta. will vote Tuesday and Wednesday on a new offer from the company after rejecting a previous proposal. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 401 announced Tuesday (Jan. 25) its negotiating committee “fully endorses” the new offer after the company’s Richardson Oilseed division “enhanced
Heavy rains and river overflow led to this flooding on Jan. 2 in the Aceh province of Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil-producing nation.
Grain Markets, Markets

Oilseed price trends remain on upslope

Canola’s highs may be in, at least for the time being

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The ICE Futures canola market has seen some wide price swings to start the new year, hitting contract highs then falling $80 per tonne off of those highs in the front month before eventually rebounding to be right back around where they started the year (as of Jan. 20). Such large swings are to be
Ajay Dalai says a process to pelletize canola meal is now ready for commercialization.
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Heating homes with canola meal

This byproduct of crushing could soon be replacing coal and natural gas

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A project to turn canola meal into home heat through pelletization is ready for its next step. Ajay Dalai, a Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan, says they’re now ready to scale up pellet production and enter commercialization. He says the product could find a market as an eco-friendly replacement for coal and
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: The technology tipping point

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“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” That snippet of dialogue from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises is a handy summation of the nature of change. Things go along for a while — often a good long while — in a certain mould, and

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