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Artist’s rendition of the planned Richardson Innovation Centre in Winnipeg. (Graphic courtesy Richardson International)
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Richardson to take food innovation downtown

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Canadian grain and agrifood firm Richardson International plans to marshal its food research and product development crews in a new downtown Winnipeg space. The privately-held, Winnipeg-based company announced Wednesday it will put up over $30 million to build what it calls the Richardson Innovation Centre, a four-story, 62,000-square foot facility to go up a block
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The crops produced on Prairie farms don’t need processing to be eaten

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Isn’t it ironic that we live in the Grain Belt of Canada and produce some of the world’s finest grains, but we rarely eat those grains until they’re processed? For the longest time, I didn’t even know you could cook raw wheat kernels just as they are. The only thing I ever ate out of
Gregory Sekulic, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada,
urges farmers to count stands in the fall during his CanoLAB talk in Dauphin
March 15.
Crops, Local news

Fall stand counts pegged as a better measure for canola production

CanoLAB speakers say it’s time to add a fall 
stand count to the schedule to see how close that target density really is

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Few farmers track stand density after the combine rolls, but the Canola Council of Canada says those are the numbers that really count. “That’s going to give you your absolute measure of success,” Gregory Sekulic, agronomy specialist with the council, said. “When you’re talking about seed mortality, we quite commonly see in excess of 50
University of Manitoba entomologist Tharshi Nagalingam breaks down the flea beetle threat at CanoLAB March 15, including what she says is a shift to more striped flea beetles in the province.
Crops, Local news

CanoLAB speaker: It’s time to check your flea beetle species

Striped flea beetles haven’t seen the dramatic rise here as they have in Alberta, but one of the CanoLAB speakers in Dauphin says the insects are still more common than they were decades ago

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There’s a new flea beetle in town, at least according to some datasets. University of Manitoba entomologist Tharshi Nagalingam says striped flea beetles are on the rise in the province, something that may impact farmer choices on early management. “It affects them a lot because striped flea beetles are less susceptible for seed treatments… we
Canadian Canola Growers Association CEO Rick White told the House of Commons agriculture committee March 19 in Ottawa it’s time to double the limit on cash advances to $800,000.
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Request to double cash advance limit to $800,000

Rick White says it will help farmers get through the 
grain backlog, but is also justified because farms are 
much bigger than when the limit was last raised

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It’s time to up the limit on cash advances. Doubling the limit on cash advances to $800,000 will help western grain farmers struggling with reduced cash flow due to the grain transportation backlog, says Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) CEO Rick White. It’s also justified because the limit hasn’t been increased for 12 years and
Farm groups chided MPs over rail service at a recent hearing of the Commons agriculture committee.
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Western farmers want rail headaches fixed for the future

Presentations to Commons agriculture committee all noted the need for a long-lasting fix to this problem

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It’s too close to spring and planting time for a special order to the railways to move more grain to achieve much, Prairie farmers have told the Commons agriculture committee. Rural roads will soon be impassable for grain trucks and farmers will be focused on planting this year’s crop rather than hauling grain to terminals,
Argentina’s late rainfalls drag on oilseed futures
Grain Markets, Markets

Argentina’s late rainfalls drag on oilseed futures

Snows on the Prairies weigh on canola’s price outlook

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ICE Futures Canada canola contracts held above the $520-per-tonne mark during the week ended March 26, as speculative buying helped offset the bearish influence of rain in South America. From March 16 to March 23, canola lost $2.50 to end Friday at $520.60 per tonne. The week started off with a thud, as beneficial rains
Proposed changes to rail shipping legislation could be deregulation by stealth, the NFU worries.
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NFU worried C-49 will help railways, hurt farmers

Terry Boehm believes the new legislation gives the railways too much wiggle room on grain service

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The National Farmers Union (NFU) fears Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, will further deregulate the railways, resulting in poorer service for western Canadian grain farmers, not better. The opposite view is held by most farm groups, grain companies and even the railways, all of whom want the legislation to revise the Canada Transportation Act
CanoLAB and SoyLAB attendees get a crash course 
in weed identification in Dauphin March 15.
Crops

CanoLAB adds soybeans to the agenda

The two-day event hoped to get a better idea on managing canola 
and soybeans for growers who increasingly want to grow both

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Growers were looking for more than just canola knowledge from CanoLAB this year. Soybeans also stole the show. Put on annually by canola commodity groups, CanoLAB is usually a major stop for everything from canola fertilization and weed control to disease pressures and beneficial insects. This was the first year, however, that the Manitoba Pulse

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