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ALUS and corporate partners launch Lake Winnipeg project

Project will help landowners identify and address water risks

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A new consortium of industry and environmental not-for-profits is spearheading a new approach to water stewardship in the Lake Winnipeg basin. The Lake Winnipeg Water Basin Stewardship Project is a “more formalized approach to on-farm water stewardship,” according to Mike Nemeth, a senior sustainability adviser with fertilizer company Nutrien. “The project is bringing together farmers,
A man and a child ride away from a protest site at Windsor, Ont. on Feb. 12, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
Markets

Windsor-Detroit trade corridor reopens after police clear protesters

Prairie premiers oppose use of Emergencies Act

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Windsor/Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — North America’s busiest trade link reopened for traffic late Sunday evening, ending a six-day blockade, the Canada Border Services Agency said, after Canadian police cleared the protesters fighting to end COVID-19 restrictions. Canadian police made several arrests on Sunday and cleared protesters and vehicles that occupied the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor,
A man reacts as protestors continue blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge at Windsor, Ont. on the evening of Feb. 11, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
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Farm and agrifood groups press for clear border crossings

Injunction granted to clear Ambassador Bridge blockade

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Groups representing Canada’s farm and agrifood sectors want to see an “immediate” end to multiple border blockades thrown up in recent weeks by protestors in three provinces — while the auto sector has secured a court order that one blockade be taken down. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, Canadian Cattlemen’s Association,
File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
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U.S. urges Canada to use federal powers to ease border protest disruption

Disruptions force automakers to reduce operations

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Windsor/Washington | Reuters — Canada should use federal powers to ease the growing economic disruption caused by the blockage of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route by protesters opposed to coronavirus mandates, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Thursday. The closure of the Ambassador Bridge, North America’s busiest international land border crossing and a vital
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Crops

CP conductors, engineers taking strike vote

Teamster-led workers' deal expired at end of 2021

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Unionized conductors, engineers, trainmen and yardmen for Canadian Pacific Railway are getting their ballots for a strike vote this month, as contract talks have again wound up in dispute. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 3,000 CP employees in those categories, said strike ballots were being distributed to members starting Feb. 1,
“I would say that for this coming year we should have a special formulation of 4R and I’m calling it EC. It’s Extra Careful... ” – Don Flaten.
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Soil fertility a high-stakes game

Playing the right cards at the right time is key in this cost environment

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Farming has its highs and lows and right now input prices are high while — despite our snowpack — soil moisture reserves are low. This puts farmers into a high-stakes poker game where there could be considerable rewards for proper fertilizing but there could also be a penalty for skimping and starving your crop. Retired
Manitoba Grazing Exchange opens for business
Livestock, News

Manitoba Grazing Exchange opens for business

The site connects livestock owners and landowners looking to graze fields, cover crops

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A site to link landowners who have pastures or cover crop fields for grazing with livestock owners in search of pasture went live on January 27. The Manitoba Grazing Exchange was created through a partnership between the Manitoba Organic Alliance (MOA) and the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association. The site allows livestock and crop producers
Romana Didulo, the self-declared “Queen of Canada” and a leading Canadian QAnon figure, leaves after speaking on Parliament Hill as truckers and supporters continue to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates, in Ottawa on Feb. 3, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Patrick Doyle)

Canada rules out use of troops against truck blockade

More protests planned

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Ottawa | Reuters — The Canadian government will not use troops against protestors whose nearly week-long demonstration against coronavirus vaccine mandates has brought traffic in central Ottawa to a halt, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. More than 200 trucks and other vehicles have been blockading downtown roads in the nation’s capital since last Friday
File photo of Canpotex potash cars. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

Nutrien eyes potash production boost amid turmoil in Russia, Belarus

Idled Saskatchewan mines could be restarted

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Winnipeg | Reuters — Nutrien, the world’s biggest potash miner, could boost production by up to 29 per cent in coming years, depending on any sanctions facing rival producers in Russia and Belarus, the Canadian company’s interim CEO told Reuters. Prices of granular potash fertilizer are near 10-year highs in the United States and Brazil,
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Markets

Vaccine protest jams southern Alberta border crossing

Premier, transportation minister called for blockade to disperse

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UPDATED, Jan. 31 — A major supply chain corridor between Alberta and the U.S. remained blockaded through into Sunday evening by vehicles in protest of mandates requiring foreign truckers entering Canada and the U.S. to be vaccinated. The protest on Highway 4 at the Coutts, Alta. border crossing, about 100 km southeast of Lethbridge, began

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