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Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for the week centred on Jan. 6. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

FAO seeks help for drought-ravaged Ethiopia

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 15, 2016

Rome | Reuters — Ethiopia faces its worst drought in decades, leading the United Nations’ food agency to call on Friday for an emergency cash injection of US$50 million to help the country overcome the crisis. Crop production has fallen up to 90 per cent in some regions and failed completely in the country’s east,

Local news

Ag Days success depends on volunteers

Board includes 14 members who represent producers, exhibitors and MAFRD

By Duncan Morrison January 14, 2016

Volunteers make the world go around with the things they do and the way they make people feel. And that includes the great things that happen each year at Manitoba Ag Days. “No matter what the event is, big or small, there needs to be a core foundation of people to help make it successful,”

Local news

More than 50 speakers at Ag Days 2016

Speaker says that farmers can’t ignore the ‘mommy blogger’ community

By Duncan Morrison January 14, 2016

Could there be a better title for a family-focused, agriculture-is-healthy blog than ‘Nurse Loves Farmer?’ That is why 2016 Manitoba Ag Days general manager Kristen Phillips is particularly excited about the inclusion of Nurse Loves Farmer blogger Sarah Schulz as a key speaker at the event. “Canadians are now at least three generations removed from

Crops, Livestock, Local news

Mitigating the effects of climate change

Weather-related crop losses could cripple existing programs

By Allan Dawson January 14, 2016

A provincially appointed task force is recommending sweeping changes to programs to help farmers mitigate crop losses due to climate change — including exploring whole-farm revenue insurance. The Agriculture Risk Management Review Task Force released 25 recommendations last week in a 108-page report prepared for Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn. Climate change can’t be ignored, the

Crops, Livestock, Local news

Twenty-five recommendations to help Manitoba farmers mitigate climate change

By Allan Dawson January 14, 2016

Programs 1. Consider a new permanent cover program to compensate producers for taking marginal land out of production. 2. Encourage insurance programs to promote the use of novel crops and ensure programs respond more quickly to the impact of climate change. 3. Continue to promote policies that reward and incentivize best management practices, including reforms

Livestock, Weather

U.S. forecaster sees El Nino conditions weakening

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 14, 2016

Reuters — The El Nino phenomenon currently affecting weather is expected to weaken during the Northern Hemisphere spring and transition to normal conditions by late spring or early summer, a U.S. government weather forecaster said Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, was in line in its monthly forecast

Livestock, Weather

Study finds Canadian beef’s GHG footprint shrunk over 30 years

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 11, 2016

Efficiencies in cattle production and feeding have allowed Canada’s beef industry to produce the same weight in beef as 30 years ago with smaller breeding herds, less land — and smaller greenhouse gas (GHG) output, a new study finds. The study, led by research scientist Tim McAllister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge, with

Crops, Forages

Saudi dairy firm buying California land for fodder

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 11, 2016

Reuters –– Saudi Arabia’s Almarai, the largest dairy company in the Gulf, has spent C$45 million to buy land in California to supply its business with alfalfa hay, it said Sunday. The 1,790 acres of land at Blythe — in the state’s southeast corner, about 200 km east of Palm Springs — was acquired through

Crops

Salford buys tillage equipment maker AerWay

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 8, 2016

Southwestern Ontario vertical tillage and pasture equipment maker AerWay has become part of another well-known Ontario ag equipment manufacturer. Salford Group announced in December it has bought the AerWay advanced aeration products line from the Canadian trailer systems arm of German truck, bus and trailer axle and suspension manufacturer SAF-Holland. AerWay, which operates a manufacturing

Opinion

Doggerel 2016

By John Morriss January 7, 2016

The tree is took down, there’s no more left of the turkey It’s a new year in farming, and for many, the future’s quite murky But not for our readers, who know that from time immemorial That we clearly predict the future in the new year’s editorial But first we look back at the past

Daily Network News

B.C. agrochemical startup gets $1.2M in federal funding

Prairie forecast: Another Alberta clipper?

OPINION: Understanding how plants pause and restart growth can help develop climate-resilient crops

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