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What was once called the Weed Fair and split between Winnipeg and Brandon has now become Canada’s largest indoor ag show in Brandon.
Crops, Local news

Ag Days kicks off the agricultural new year

Construction at the Keystone Centre is finally complete, 
and new space has been added for Manitoba’s biggest ag show

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Kristen Phillips is straightforward when it comes to what attendees can expect at 2016 Manitoba Ag Days. “We are 100 per cent pure farm,” says Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days general manager. “We have a very diverse selection of exhibitors who know they have a targeted market of approximately 45,000 attendees that come through our doors
Canadian soldier
Crops, Livestock, News

Operation Ag Careers to launch in 2016

An on-line resource encourages Canadian Armed Forces retirees to eye a second career in agriculture

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A pilot project being launched early this year aims to put some muscle behind the notion of farming with ‘military precision.’ Operation Ag Careers is targeting the thousands of men and women retiring from the armed forces every year as potential recruits for the thousands of jobs available in agriculture. The joint project of the
Skim milk powder. (PelchGroup.com)
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Global dairy prices unexpectedly fall in overnight auction

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Wellington | Reuters — Global dairy prices unexpectedly eased in the overnight GlobalDairyTrade auction, a platform established by New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter. Fonterra’s GDT Price Index dipped 1.6 per cent, with an average selling price of $2,458 per tonne, in the auction held Tuesday (all figures US$). Whole milk
Riparian habitat at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (FWS.gov/refuge/Malheur)
Livestock

Sympathy for jailed ranchers, anger at occupiers in Oregon town

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Burns, Ore. | Reuters — Residents of the Oregon town thrust into the spotlight after self-styled militiamen took over a U.S. wildlife refuge voiced sympathy for the jailed ranchers whose plight inspired the action but were critical of the armed protesters. Saturday’s takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside the town of Burns, Ore.,
Riparian habitat at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (FWS.gov/refuge/Malheur)
Livestock

Oregon activists picked the wrong battle, militia leaders say

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Reuters — Self-styled militia members who seized federal property in rural Oregon in an effort to galvanize opposition to the U.S. government appear to have made a tactical error — potential allies say they picked the wrong battle. As armed anti-government activists occupied a snowy wildlife refuge for a third day to call attention to
TBARS director Dr. Tarlok Singh Sahota shows off a test plot of black barley in this 2014 file photo.
Crops, Weather

Thunder Bay ag research station gets stay

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More time has been bought for a northern Ontario agricultural research station on the brink of closing to come up with a new operating plan. The Ontario government on Monday announced $350,000 in bridge funding for the not-for-profit Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Association, operator of the Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Station (TBARS), to “develop a
California’s Department of Water Resources gauges the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains through manual surveys, such as this one in late December 2004. (Paul Hames photo, copyright California Department of Water Resources)
Crops, Weather

Deep snow in California mountains offers hope in drought

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Reuters — A cold, wet start to California’s winter has dumped nearly five feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, state water experts said Wednesday, fuelling hope that 2016 will bring enough precipitation to help offset four years of drought. Snow surveyors headed to the mountains in Phillips near Lake Tahoe on Wednesday for
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: Quiet, relatively mild weather to start New Year

Forecast issued Dec. 28, 2015, covering the period from Dec. 30, 2015 to Jan. 6, 2016

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Once again, Mother Nature decided to follow her own agenda, and while she only tweaked things a little bit, it resulted in fairly significant changes for our region. Last week’s storm system did not pan out as forecast, with the southern system becoming much stronger than expected, and it pushed a little further north. This

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