Crop Report – for Aug. 27, 2009

SOUTHWEST Rainfall accumulations ranged from 10 mm in the Melita area to 60 mm in the northern areas of the region. Winter wheat harvest continued, as most producers were harvesting before the rain on the weekend. North of Highway 1, most producers have desiccated winter wheat but very little harvesting has been done. Yields to

Index – for Aug. 27, 2009

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Index – for Aug. 20, 2009

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On The Boyd Ranch, The Grass Is Stirrup High

On the Boyd ranch near Brookdale, the grass is lush, green and stirrup high. It’s like the cowboy’s prayer come true. Even the solar-powered pump pulls water up into a portable trough from a grassy-banked, tree-sheltered water hole that runs cool, clear and deep. A visitor from the parched southwest might suspect such phenomenal pasture


Crop Report – for Aug. 13, 2009

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall over the past week varied from 10 to 50 mm. The majority of cereal crops are in the dough stage. Producers have started desiccating winter wheat and some producers have started cutting fall rye. The late-seeded and reseeded canola crop is still flowering. Some flax fields are showing colour change. Sunflower crops

Crop Report – for Aug. 6, 2009

SOUTHWEST REGION Scattered showers over the past week brought 10 to 15 mm in most areas. Cereal crops in the region are in the filling stage with some early crops in the late-milk to soft-dough stage. Canola crops are finishing blooming. Most flax crops are flowering. Sunflowers are in the R2 R4 stage and corn


Weekly Manitoba Cattle Report

The quiet seasonal summer markets persistedat cat-t le yards around Manitoba during the week ended July 31, with most auction sites still shut down for the season. Volumes should start to pick up over the upcoming few weeks, although the fall run is still some time away. “It’s probably one of the quietest summers we’ve

Classified Index – for Aug. 6, 2009

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Manitoba Producers Keep Eye On Hay Harvest

DWAYNE KLASSEN RNI “The numbers being marketed are just not enough to fill the trucks.” The summer doldrums continued to dominate the cattle auction yards in Manitoba during the week ended July 24. The number of marketings hitting the auctions continued to be on the light side, with values for most classes of animals seeing