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U.S. senators seek ban on pesticide chlorpyrifos

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New York / Reuters – A group of Democratic senators hopes to ban a pesticide the U.S. government has greenlighted for use, according to a bill unveiled on Tuesday in a challenge to Republican President Donald Trump’s push to loosen environmental regulations. The bill, introduced by Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, would outlaw chlorpyrifos,
Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Weather conditions see crops quickly advance, disease, insect pressures low

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for July 24, 2017

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Hot and humid weather conditions across much of the province are advancing crops quickly. Winter cereals and some early seeded spring cereals are starting to turn. Areas in the Southwest, Northwest and Central regions are well below normal precipitation and would benefit from rain. Thunderstorms brought damaging winds and hail to some areas of Manitoba.
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CSTA welcomes its 66th president

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Dan Wright, of Monsanto Canada, has been named the 66th President of the Canadian Seed Trade Association, the association says in a release. Wright has been involved with the CSTA for a number of years. In that time, he has served on the board of directors for two years and on the executive for three
KAP is frustrated with the Manitoba government’s lack of information on a 
made-in-Manitoba carbon tax, KAP general manager James Battershill told delegates at KAP’s advisory council meeting in Brandon July 13.
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KAP frustrated by lack of detail on Manitoba’s carbon tax

A new Manitobans Against Carbon Taxes Coalition is pressuring the 
provincial government to join Saskatchewan to fight the tax

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Frustration is growing over a lack of information on Manitoba government’s carbon tax. “We are a little bit sick and tired of starting to negotiate and discuss this issue in a vacuum without information from the province on what it is looking at,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) general manager James Bat­ters­hill told KAP delegates at
So long AIM — it was another good run

So long AIM — it was another good run

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It’s all over now except for the crying, folks. Ag In Motion (AIM) 2017 is history. And really the only crying that might be done, is by the dedicated volunteers and employees of the show who stay on the AIM grounds near Langham, SK for another 10 days to two weeks to clean up and
Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and his Saskatchewan counterpart Lyle Stewart signed onto a general agreement for a five-year federal/provincial funding framework on July 21. (Saskatchewan.ca)

Ministers agree on new ag funding framework

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Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial ministers for agriculture have agreed on the bones of a new five-year policy funding framework, committing them to a review of its business risk management (BRM) programming. The ministers came out of three days of meetings Friday in St. John’s with the “key elements” of a five-year, $3 billion framework,
Manitoba Agriculture land management specialist Marla Riekman (l) and Andrew Wilton and his father Doug Wilton examine the underwear that was planted April 18 and tighty-whities that were planted a foot away a month later after both were exhumed June 29 from Doug Wilton’s oat field between Jordan Siding and Miami, Man.
Crops

Holey underwear shows soil health

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After two months in a zero-till field, this underwear was well on its way to being one with the earth

What a difference two months can make on the weather and tighty-whities buried in the soil. There wasn’t a lot left of the cotton underwear Marla Riekman buried in local farmer Doug Wilton’s zero-till field April 18, when she retrieved it June 29. “We can obviously see a lot of breakdown,” said Riekman, Manitoba Agriculture’s
Delegates from 35 countries take in an evening of local culture at the Canadian Museum of History during the Global 4-H Summit July 11-14, 2017, in Ottawa.
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4-H’ers make international ties at global summit in Ottawa

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Manitoba 4-H members were among representatives from 35 countries at the second Global 4-H Summit last week

They may have come from 35 different countries, but they had at least one thing in common — 4-H. Ottawa played host to 480 international delegates during the second Global 4-H Summit last week, about double the number at the first summit in Seoul, South Korea in 2014. “I think the most amazing part of

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