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Rain falls, but more needed; cereal harvesting, canola swathing begin

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 14

By Manitoba Agriculture August 14, 2017

Warm weather has advanced crops, and also caused some injury in canola. Rainfall occurred throughout the province, but more rainfall is needed in many areas. Harvest has begun in winter cereals, spring cereals, and field peas. Canola is starting to be swathed. Insect monitoring is on-going, but disease incidence remains low. Haying continues, but in

Forages, Livestock, Weather

Drought-related livestock tax deferral zones widen again

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 14, 2017

More ranchers in five provinces may now be able to defer some of their taxable income from their livestock sales in 2016 due to drought. The federal government on Aug. 4 announced its final list of drought-designated regions where the livestock tax deferral provision will be allowed for the 2016 tax year, and has included

Crops

DuPont to buy up farm software firm Granular

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 11, 2017

A San Francisco company providing farm management software to growers in four provinces and about three dozen states is poised to join the digital arm of DuPont and Dow’s merged agribusiness. DuPont — which as of last week had all regulatory approvals and clearances lined up to complete its merger with Dow Chemical — announced

Attendees get a close look at soil structure and in-field testing during the July 27 Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives  soil health workshop.

Forages, Livestock

Producers explore the ABCs of do-it-yourself soil health tests

The Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives has a few ways of determining  potential problems that have nothing to do with a lab

By Alexis Stockford August 9, 2017

The science behind soil health might be complex, but most of the tests showcased during the latest Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives workshop could be done with equipment bought from a dollar store. “We have the ability to really investigate the soil ourselves,” Marla Riekman, land management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, said. “You can use

George Gray, reeve of RM of Dufferin, spoke at the Manitoba Planning Conference earlier this spring about why Dufferin came to adopt its own tile drainage bylaw.

Crops, Local news

Dufferin’s tile drainage bylaw a ‘template’ for others

The Red River Basin Commission is currently guiding development of a tile drainage  bylaw template based on the RM’s work

By Lorraine Stevenson August 8, 2017

Rural municipalities are responsible for controlling drainage, and a few years ago the RM of Dufferin realized that needed to include tile drains. Former reeve, Shawn McCutcheon saw tiling becoming more widely adopted, and could see need for a made-in-Dufferin approach to managing it, said current reeve, George Gray. “We knew it was going to

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Winter wheat, rye harvest begins, many areas dry

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for July 31

By Manitoba Agriculture July 31, 2017

Winter wheat and fall rye harvest is underway in Central Manitoba. Grass seed harvest has begun in Central Manitoba and the Interlake. Many regions in the province are below normal precipitation and would benefit from rain. Most of the Southwest and Northwest received less than 5 mm of rain over the past week. Heat unit

Hands experimenting with wheat in a laboratory

News

Farm support programs undergo changes

But some farm leaders say more is needed

By Alex Binkley July 27, 2017

Growing Forward 2 will transform into the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) next year with some changes to the existing Business Risk Management (BRM) programs, the federal and provincial agriculture ministers agreed at their annual summer meeting July 19-21. The ministers also agreed to calls from farm groups for a full review of the BRM programs

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Less water, more grass

By John Morriss July 27, 2017

A few hundred thousand here, a few million there. Manitoba’s PC government is rightly or wrongly getting plenty of attention for its trimming of the health-care and education systems. But it’s time for this government to start saving some real money. The Red River Basin Commission recently held meetings to mark the 20th anniversary of the

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

By Manitoba Agriculture July 24, 2017

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.

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.

Local news, Other

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

By Allan Dawson July 24, 2017

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

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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