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Editorial: Carbon hype is not market reality
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Editorial: Carbon hype is not market reality

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It’s easy to understand why farmers want carbon credits to work. They want to be paid for the ecological goods and services they provide. On a more emotional level, it’s nice to be treated like heroes in times when farmers are sometimes painted as environmental villains. The public is increasingly focused on climate change and
Hemp expert Anndrea Hermann on her farm near Kleefeld, Man., with the fruit of her translation efforts, a hemp-based children’s book.
Faces of ag, News

‘Trallala’ takes hemp expert on magical journey 

Anndrea Hermann’s fascination with hemp led her from Missouri to Manitoba, where she jumped into a fledgling industry

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[UPDATE: July 12, 2023] A little hempseed named Trallala is sitting on her plant when an elderly cat named Max passes beneath and tells her about a mysterious field of singing flowers. She pleads with the black and white feline to take her there. Adventure follows as Trallala travels across “Hempworld” farm, meeting friends and learning everything
(Dave Bedard photo)
Markets

Food sales grew but margins tightened in 2022, FCC says

Modest further growth expected this year

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Food and beverages sales increased in Canada last year, even as margins hit an historic low and consumers chose Canadian less. According to the latest FCC Food and Beverage Report, released Tuesday, sales increased 11 per cent to $156 billion in 2022. These gains came largely from higher export values and strength in the grain
Manitoba’s Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority (LGCA) ran billboards such as this one in Winnipeg in 2019 to educate the public ahead of edibles’ entry to the recreational market. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

U.S. FDA reported weighing CBD regulation in food, supplements

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Reuters — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to make recommendations on how to regulate the use of popular cannabis compound CBD in food and supplements, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing agency officials. After weighing the evidence on the compound’s safety, the FDA will decide within months how to
A kochia infested field.
Crops, News

Late harvest hampers fall weed control efforts

Narrow regrowth window, cooling temperatures play role in limiting applications

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Manitoba’s weed specialist says this year’s late harvest has thrown a wrench into many farmers’ fall control plans. Normally, it is recommended that farmers wait four to six weeks after harvest to allow weed regrowth before spraying. “This year, we just don’t have the calendar days to do that,” said Kim Brown-Livingston, Manitoba Agriculture and
Crop Report, Crops, News

Manitoba harvest nears completion

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 24, October 18, 2022

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Overview Harvest progress sits at 90 per cent complete across the province, having caught up to the 5-year average of 91 per cent complete by week 42. Harvest is wrapping up or done in many areas of southern Manitoba, and fall fieldwork, tillage, fertilizer application and drainage is underway. Winter cereal crops appear in good
Soy harvest hits half-way mark, overall harvest progress varies widely
Crop Report, Crops, News

Soy harvest hits half-way mark, overall harvest progress varies widely

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 23, October 11, 2022

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Overview Harvest progress sits at 79 per cent completed across the province, approximately two weeks behind the 5-year average of 89 per cent complete by week 41. Canola continues to be harvested in all regions, but notable progress has been made in the Southwest region, where crops were generally later and more variable than other
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Crops

Biden overhauling U.S. marijuana policy

Prior federal offenses to be pardoned; moves could ease U.S. business for cannabis firms

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Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden took steps to overhaul U.S. policy on marijuana on Thursday by pardoning thousands of people with federal offenses for simple marijuana possession — and initiating a review of how the drug is classified. Biden said thousands of people with prior federal convictions could be denied employment, housing
Signage outside a Tweed cannabis store in Winnipeg’s Osborne Village, roughly 60 metres west of the high-density neighbourhood’s Tokyo Smoke store. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

Pot producer Canopy Growth to shed retail stores

Company working on 'path to profitability'

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In full cost-cutting mode, Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth Corp. is set to shed a significant chunk of its vertical integration model by selling off the retail pot shops it owns across the country. Smiths Falls, Ont.-based Canopy announced Sept. 27 it has an agreement in place with OEG Retail Cannabis — already the owner/operators
Cannabis plants at a licensed indoor production facility in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

Canada to review impact of cannabis legalization four years on

Review will also look at regulatory challenges in pot sector

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada on Thursday launched a review of the country’s legalization of recreational cannabis use four years ago to evaluate its impact on youth, Indigenous minorities and others, and analyze its effect on the economy and the illegal marijuana market. Canada became the first developed nation to legalize use of recreational marijuana

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