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A hemispheric lens captures a 180-degree image over a silvopasture — a combined forestry and grazing site. (Charlie Feldhake photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Farm emissions research program renewed

A federal program backing research into farm-level technologies and practices that limit farms’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been picked up for another five-year run. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Wednesday announced $27 million is budgeted over the 2016-21 period for the Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program (AGGP). More information about criteria for the renewed program

Livestock

Premium Brands buys meat supplier C+C

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 28, 2016

Montreal meat distributor and processor C+C Packing is set to become a new eastern arm for Vancouver food firm Premium Brands. Premium Brands last Tuesday announced a $146 million cash-and-stock deal to buy C+C and its in-house processing arm Premier Meat Packers. The company supplies fresh and frozen meats to grocery chains, the hotel and

Livestock

Alberta to pare slots cut for horse racing sector

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 24, 2016

A renewed 10-year funding agreement for Alberta’s horse racing industry body will see its take from racetrack slot machine revenue cut from almost 52 per cent down to 40 per cent by 2018. The provincial government, in a release March 19, said its new agreement “will help ensure the viability of Alberta’s horse racing industry

Crops

Debate: Sask. farmers aim to bridge digital gap

By GFM Network News, Lisa Guenther March 23, 2016

Infrastructure has always been top of mind for many rural Saskatchewan residents — but rural infrastructure needs in 2016 can’t all be met with gravel, graders and culverts. With a provincial election around the corner, improving digital and cellular service was a focal point in an ag leaders’ debate held in Saskatoon Tuesday. The Why

Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for the week centred March 2. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Crops, Weather

La Nina seen maybe succeeding El Nino

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 11, 2016

Reuters — A U.S. government weather forecaster said Thursday it sees a near 50 per cent chance La Nina could develop by the Northern Hemisphere fall on the heels of the El Nino conditions likely to dissipate in the coming months. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the U.S. National Weather Service, in

Riparian habitat at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (FWS.gov/refuge/Malheur)

Livestock

Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave

By GFM Network News February 12, 2016

Burns, Ore. | Reuters — Police and federal agents searched a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon for explosives and evidence on Friday, a day after the last holdouts in a protest over federal control of Western land surrendered to end a six-week armed standoff. Federal authorities said the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon

Averaged sea surface temperatures and sea surface temperature anomalies worldwide for the week centred on Feb. 3. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Livestock, Weather

First La Nina since 2012 expected in coming months

By Chris Prentice, GFM Network News February 11, 2016

New York | Reuters –– Even as the El Nino weather phenomenon continues to impact global temperatures and crops, its counterpart La Nina is increasingly expected to emerge in the coming months for the first time in four years. The return of La Nina, Spanish for “the girl” and characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures,

Livestock

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

By GFM Network News, Peter Henderson January 27, 2016

Reuters — U.S. and state officials in Oregon on Wednesday set up checkpoints around Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where an armed group pledged to prolong its standoff with the government a day after one protester was shot and eight others were arrested. Authorities said the new security involves a series of checkpoints along key routes

Livestock

Riders’ effects on therapy horses up for study

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 10, 2016

A new study in southern Ontario plans to look at the effects of the relationship between a therapy horse and its rider from the horse’s point of view. Katrina Merkies, a professor in the University of Guelph’s animal biosciences department, has picked up a $10,000 research grant from the Ohio-based Horses and Humans Research Foundation

Sea surface temperature anomalies. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Livestock, Weather

El Nino seen declining, to return to neutral by Q2

By GFM Network News, Matt Siegel January 5, 2016

Sydney | Reuters — The 2015-16 El Nino weather event, one of the three strongest in the past 50 years, has peaked in recent weeks and will likely return to “ENSO neutral” by the second quarter of this year, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday. The El Nino phenomenon is driven by warm

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California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

Horses

Farm emissions research program renewed

Premium Brands buys meat supplier C+C

Alberta to pare slots cut for horse racing sector

Debate: Sask. farmers aim to bridge digital gap

La Nina seen maybe succeeding El Nino

Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave

First La Nina since 2012 expected in coming months

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

Riders’ effects on therapy horses up for study

El Nino seen declining, to return to neutral by Q2

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