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Corn west of Mitchell, Man. on Oct. 17, 2018. (Dave Bedard photo)

Ready, set go! Harvest reprieve hits Prairies

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries October 17, 2018

CNS Canada — Prairie farmers struggling to get crops off fields under wet, cold conditions are about to get a reprieve — if they haven’t seen warmer weather already in their area. Natalie Hasell, a weather preparedness meteorologist for Environment Canada in Winnipeg, said most regions of British Columbia, Alberta, and southern and central Saskatchewan

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell addresses a MAGA rally in Richmond, Ky. on Oct. 13, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Markets

U.S. Senate will not vote on USMCA in 2018, McConnell says

By GFM Network News October 16, 2018

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Senate’s top Republican said on Tuesday that senators will not vote to approve a revised North American trade pact in 2018, leaving the issue to the next Congress. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told Bloomberg Television that the Senate will not have time to take up the new United

The Calgary Telus Convention Centre, north building. (Calgary-convention.com)

Crops, Markets

Farm Forum Event under new management

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff October 16, 2018

The company behind Canada’s two biggest outdoor farm shows is expanding to the great indoors as the new operator of another well known Canadian farm industry event. Glacier FarmMedia announced Monday it has acquired and will assume management of the Farm Forum Event, an annual professional development event for farmers, starting with its 20th anniversary

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Cold, wet conditions slow harvest, livestock culling begins

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for October 15

By Manitoba Agriculture October 15, 2018

Southwest Region Colder and wet conditions prevented harvest progress for the past week. Friday was dry enough for harvesting and fieldwork to start, but snow and rain came in the afternoon. Snow on the weekend and very cold temperatures most of the nights. Temperature reported down to -14C on some nights. Day temperature was also

Bill Gibson is among those sheep producers to manage his herd through adaptive grazing.

Livestock

No wool over their eyes

Grazing preference, fencing, and parasite issues are among the quirks sheep producers deal with when attempting high stock density grazing

By Alexis Stockford October 15, 2018

Markus Wand can draw on a long family history of high intensity rotational grazing and adapting it to different species. His operation, Wand Family Farm near Powassan, Ont., has been rotationally grazing since the ’70s when Markus’s father, Klaus, bought a dairy farm and turned to the practice to help manage the farm’s purebred herd.

Crops, Markets

Trade certainty doesn’t translate to higher loonie

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News October 12, 2018

CNS Canada — Even with more certainty around trade with the U.S., Canadians shouldn’t expect to see the dollar flying in value. “It’s hard for me to see the Canadian dollar gain value against the U.S. dollar in the short term, unless the Bank of Canada totally revises its stance towards interest rates,” said J.P.

Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson listens as attorney Brent Wisner, not shown, speaks about his condition at trial in San Francisco on July 9, 2018. (File photo: Josh Edelson/Pool via Reuters)

Crops

Bayer likely to get new trial in glyphosate case

By GFM Network News October 10, 2018

San Francisco | Reuters — Bayer’s Monsanto unit was likely to get a new trial on the US$250 million in punitive damages awarded by a jury to a groundskeeper who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based herbicides, including Roundup, caused his cancer. According to a Wednesday court filing in San Francisco’s Superior Court of California, Judge Suzanne

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Little harvest progress, snowfall causes lodging in standing crops

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for October 9

By Manitoba Agriculture October 9, 2018

Southwest Region Unseasonally cool and wet weather swept the region with rain and snow, precipitation amounts between 10 to 45mm. Soils also still cooling and are at 5C. Northern parts of the region got more moisture as compared to southern parts. Wasagaming had 45mm, Newdale, Shoal Lake and Oakburn areas had 25mm. Air temperatures were

Weather

AgriRecovery offered for B.C. wildfire costs

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff October 4, 2018

British Columbia ranchers and farmers who lost pasture or cropland or had to move livestock out of the path of wildfires this year may be eligible for AgriRecovery funding. The federal and B.C. governments on Thursday announced a new AgriRecovery program worth up to $5 million to help defray “extraordinary costs incurred” due to wildfires

Processed feeds are especially prone to short shelf life, but there’s no requirement for formal expiry dates.

Columns, Livestock

Expiry dates matter to horses too

Keep an eye on the freshness of everything from medications to feed

By Carol Shwetz September 25, 2018

Modern horse keeping carries a responsibility of housekeeping that pertains to periodically reviewing the expiry dates of products routinely used in the care of the horse. Most horse owners will immediately consider the expiry dates of drugs and medications, however, there are other items that also carry expiry dates that may be even more relevant

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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