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Manitoba producers now have new options to insure multi-species forage mixes.

Multi-species forage gets insurance safety net

A long ingredient list no longer necessarily precludes that greenfeed recipe from being insured

By Alexis Stockford March 2, 2022

Producers will have a few new options when it comes to forage insurance in 2022. The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) has added or expanded two programs geared towards producers diversifying their annual forage. Why it matters: Two new or expanded forage insurance options will be on offer this year for producers looking to mix

It’s assumed almost all kochia in Manitoba is already resistant to Group 2 herbicides.

Crops, News

Herbicide resistance keeps on rising

Mother Nature keeps outsmarting the available crop protection products

By Gord Leathers March 1, 2022

Every year weed scientists with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada continue their herbicide-resistant weed surveys — and every year they find new places with weeds poking through the crop canopies in direct defiance of the spraying. This is because Mother Nature is better at genetics than we are at chemistry so our herbicides just can’t keep

Weather

Flooding in Manitoba hinges on coming spring melt

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm February 19, 2022

MarketsFarm — Manitoba’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre (HFC) released an initial spring flood outlook report Friday citing the risk of moderate to major flooding in most the province’s southern basins. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Doyle Piwniuk said the amount of flooding will depend on weather conditions from now until spring melt. The HFC advised that, while

Livestock Markets, Markets

Tighter cattle supply bodes well for spring values

Demand for Manitoba animals is coming from the East, West and South

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 18, 2022

Manitoba cattle auctions were busy during the second week of February, with slaughter cows and lighter-weight feeders seeing solid demand. More strength is expected in the next few months, although high feed costs and transportation issues were being followed closely. While the numbers moving through the rings were relatively solid, they were still below what

Diamondback hit the eastern part of the province and the Interlake hardest last year.

Crops, News

Intermittent pests played role last season

Most of these insects only arrive in numbers if the conditions line up

By Gord Leathers February 17, 2022

Although grasshoppers and flea beetles were last season’s major insect pests in Manitoba, there were a few other players that caused significant trouble on a regional scale. Many farmers in different parts of the province had diamondback moth and cereal aphids blow in with the winds. Others had trouble with alfalfa weevils and lygus bugs.

Accumulated precipitation in Western Canada from Nov. 1 to Feb. 15. (AAFC)

Weather

Expect Prairie temperatures below normal until month’s end

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 17, 2022

MarketsFarm — The Prairie weather outlook for the rest of February is likely to remain below normal, according to Scott Kehler, chief scientist for Weatherlogics in Winnipeg. “[But] not as cold as it has been for most of the winter,” he added. Much of January and February have been highlighted by temperatures well below normal.

A supplied aerial photo of vehicles blocking through traffic on Feb. 1, 2022 at the Canada-U.S. border crossing between Coutts, Alta. and Sweet Grass, Montana. (Photo courtesy Alberta RCMP)

Livestock, Markets, Other

Alberta RCMP to start unclogging major border crossing

Blockade 'not a peaceful assembly,' Mounties say

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 1, 2022

A major supply chain corridor connecting Alberta and the U.S. is expected to be cleared of protestors and reopened to traffic on Tuesday, Alberta RCMP have warned. Protestors in vehicles formed a blockade Saturday on Highway 4 leading to the province’s only 24-hour Canada-U.S. border crossing, at Coutts, Alta., about 100 km southeast of Lethbridge.

Riparian buffer zones might be attractive from a simplicity perspective, but they’ll need to be just part of the run-off solution.

Crops

An unfiltered take on riparian areas

Buffer zones aren’t a silver bullet for managing and treating field run-off

By Alexis Stockford January 24, 2022

Brandon University environmental science researcher Alex Koiter is a fan of riparian areas for a lot of reasons. They help prevent stream bank erosion. They’re hot spots for biodiversity and provide corridors for wildlife to move. They have a role in flood management. But if agriculture is looking for a solution on nutrient run-off, he

Feed only quality grass or hay and free-choice salt, mineral and fresh water for the duration of two weeks.

Livestock

Take the two-week grain-free challenge

Horse Health: Sometimes saying no is the best way to express affection to your horse

By Carol Shwetz January 19, 2022

Even though a ‘two-week grain-free challenge’ may be anxiety inducing to a number of horse owners its implementation generally yields valuable realizations and surprisingly beneficial results for both horse and human. Humans often equate food with love and unknowingly project these feelings on to their animal family — the cats, the dogs and the horses. Depending on the

Cattle producers were particularly hard hit by the drought of 2021.

News

2021 had a recurring theme

There’s little doubt 2021 was an especially tough year for farmers

By Alexis Stockford January 10, 2022

Looking back at my coverage in 2021, there are a few words that keep cropping up. “Grim” is one of them. So is “dire.” There were other contenders: “critical,” “parched,” “scrambling.” In short, this year had me spending a certain amount of time with my thesaurus. How many ways can you say that things are

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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