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Dry conditions continue across Manitoba

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 7

By Manitoba Agriculture August 7, 2018

Southwest Region Little to no rain over the past week. Hot and dry weather is turning crops quickly. Major thunderstorms with hail activity around the north and south of Hamiota, causing crop damage. Grasshoppers are becoming prevalent in field margins. Click here for the Crop Weather Report for the week ending August 6 Winter wheat

News

AAFC funds Crop Agronomy Cluster

The cluster consists of eight research activities ranging from soil health to herbicide resistance and climate change adaptation

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 7, 2018

Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lawrence MacAulay recently announced $6.3 million for the Western Grains Research Foundation for a five-year ‘Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster.’ The WGRF said the cluster has been established because Canadian farmers face agronomic challenges that cut across multiple crops, and there are gaps in multi-crop and systems approaches to agronomic research. The

Farm management specialist Darren Bond (r) says a calculator on the MAFRI website can help calculate break-even costs.

Crops

To spray or not to spray for fungal disease

You don’t have to just pencil it in and spray anyway — there are tools to help make the decision

By Julienne Isaacs August 7, 2018

To spray or not to spray for fungal diseases? Will the extra yield offset the cost? In practice this decision is often made based on farmers’ comfort levels, but economics should always be considered, said Holly Derksen, field crop pathologist for Manitoba Agriculture, at this year’s Crop Diagnostic School in Carman. “You have to understand

Manitoba Agriculture’s Rejean Picard says half of a crop rotation should still be cereals.

Cereals, Crops

Cereals getting shortchanged

How much of your rotation is still in cereals? If it’s less than 50 per cent, you may be short

By Alexis Stockford August 3, 2018

When it comes to getting cereals into the ground Manitoba seems to be coming up short. Provincial specialists say at least half a farm’s arable acres should be planted to these crops, but that’s rarely the case these days. According to MASC data, less than 40 per cent of crop acres in Manitoba were planted

Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Markets

Canadian grain exports hit new record in 2017/18: CGC

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team August 3, 2018

CNS Canada – Total exports of Canada’s major grains and oilseeds hit a new record in 2017/18 (Aug/Jul), as sharp increases in wheat and barley more than made up for a decline in canola sales, according to the last weekly report from the Canadian Grain Commission for the recently finished crop year. Total exports of

horizontal image of five round steel grain bins sitting in a yellow canola field under a very cloudy sky in the summer.

Grain Markets, Markets

Grain markets playing wait-and-see

Dryness concerns still aren’t causing widespread crop concerns

By Phil Franz-Warkentin August 2, 2018

ICE Futures canola contracts held within a rather narrow range during the week ended July 27, with volumes on the light side as both farmers and end-users keep to the sidelines ahead of the harvest. Dryness remains a concern in a number of areas, but those concerns have so far not been enough to give

Crops, News, Other

Intercropping coming closer

Research centres are building on their knowledge  base through the trial-and-error approach

By Alexis Stockford August 2, 2018

There are signs of both success and failure amongst the intercrop plots at Melita’s Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization. Some look great. Others are nothing but bare soil where nothing established. In others the crops aren’t playing well together and underseeded legumes are set to overtake the crop they were supposed to support. That’s just fine

Crops, News

Intercrops overcome insurance hurdle

Manitoba producers had no insurance for their intercropped acres until this year, but a new program from MASC has changed that

By Alexis Stockford August 2, 2018

This year was the first that Manitoba farmers could properly insure intercropped acres with Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation. MASC introduced novel crops insurance this year for, “crops not currently covered by the AgriInsurance program due to the relatively small number of acres grown and/or lack of data or information available,” a category that includes intercrops,

Saskatchewan farming prices – in 2016 dollars per acre.

Columns, Markets, Other

Risk and volatility not necessarily same

Hedging Your Bets: Current canola and farmland prices are examples of markets at risk of a sudden change

By David Derwin August 1, 2018

When thinking about risk, there can be a lot of different interpretations. Risk does not have to mean volatility but the two tend to work in conjunction. One way to define risk is ‘the consequence of not meeting your goals.’ One of my favourite authors on the topic of market risk and practical trading ideas

Other, Our History

Five years later, flood aid returns

Our History: July 2010

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 1, 2018

The wet year of 2005 decided to celebrate its fifth anniversary with a repeat in 2010, and the front page of our July 15 issue carried a story on how Ottawa and the provinces had announced a $30-per-acre payment to compensate for an estimated 12 million acres that went unseeded that year. The estimate was

Daily Network News

Canadian drought conditions improve in March

PMRA renamed as Pesticides Regulatory Directorate

U.S. deputy farm secretary to meet with Mosaic amid high fertilizer prices

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