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Ransomware attacks have increased by nearly 500 per cent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Comment: JBS ransomware attack highlights need for new internet

The growing problem points to the need for a new, more secure system

By David R. Beatty, Michael Parent July 7, 2021

Make no mistake: We are also in the midst of a digital pandemic of ransomware attacks. The recent attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS USA — the world’s largest meat processor — underscore the growing brazen nature of organized, deliberate attacks on increasingly significant targets, and our chronic inability to defend against them. What we

Crops, Markets, Weather

Hot weather cuts into Canadian mustard crop

Price increases already noted

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin July 7, 2021

MarketsFarm — Canada is looking at another small mustard crop in 2021, which should keep prices well supported for any unpriced crop, as recent heat stress cut into yields. “That was a very rough week,” said Walter Dyck, the Alberta-based general manager with Wisconsin mustard-processor Olds Products, on the late June/early July heat wave that

Workers use knives to butcher cattle carcasses at a new Hertzog Meat Co. beef plant at Butler, Missouri on June 14.

Farmit Manitoba

Stung by pandemic and JBS cyberattack, U.S. ranchers build new beef plants

By Tom Polansek July 2, 2021

CATTLE | A number of new operators are entering the fray, albeit at relatively small volumes

U.S. cattle ranchers and investors are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into new beef plants after temporary closures of massive slaughterhouses at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic left farmers with nowhere to send animals. A cyberattack against the U.S. unit of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS SA that idled nearly a quarter of America’s

Baxter Blair, age 13, of McLean, Sask., gets busy grooming as he prepares for his turn in the ring at the 2015 Manitoba Ag Ex.

News

Ag Ex plans to go forward

By Alexis Stockford July 2, 2021

EVENTS | Plans are underway for the first major ag fair since the start of the pandemic, slated for late October, if health orders allow

The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba is planning for an in-person Ag Ex, as long as health orders allow. The Brandon agricultural fair (one of three typically held annually by the exhibition) would be the first time such a large-scale, in-person agricultural event returns to the province since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Planning is

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: True leadership on display in Morden

By Gord Gilmour July 2, 2021

Over the past few decades, there’s been a decided decline in leadership throughout the political spectrum. Leadership once meant exactly that — leading. These days however, it’s come to mean watching public opinion polls and blowing with the wind, or triangulating amongst special-interest groups. In both cases, the goal appears to be power for the

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: A few bad apples

By Gord Gilmour June 24, 2021

Years back, I sat in a first-year university economics class where the guest lecturer insisted that the concept of a ‘labour shortage’ didn’t really exist in a market economy. You had, he explained, a few different options, including two major ones. You could invest in technology that improved productivity. Or you could sweeten your offer

News, Other

Advocacy group concerned TFWs not getting vaccine support

Province has received isolated reports of unsupportive employers, says vaccine medical lead

By Geralyn Wichers June 24, 2021

A coalition of organizations says it’s concerned many temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Manitoba haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 despite their increased risk. “I don’t know where and how to ask for it,” says a quote attributed to an international farm worker in Manitoba in a news release from Healthcare For All Manitoba. “My employer

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

Markets

Canada to lift more border restrictions in weeks to come, Trudeau says

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 24, 2021

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will further relax border restrictions in the weeks to come as long as the science supports such a move, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday, suggesting Ottawa would move more quickly than initially announced. Trudeau, under pressure to allow non-essential travel from the U.S., was more categorical than he had

Seasonal flu shots are recommended to help limit spread of flu viruses between people and livestock. (Inside Creative House/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Hogs, Livestock

Another swine flu variant case appears in Manitoba

Variant of H3N2 confirmed in southern Manitoba resident

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 23, 2021

A single and apparently isolated case of another influenza variant normally seen in hogs has turned up in a Manitoba resident, the province announced Monday. Manitoba Public Health on Monday said the H3N2 influenza variant (H3N2v) seen in this case is related to flu viruses that circulate in pigs, noting that while such viruses don’t

Farm workers qualify for Alberta’s ‘critical worker’ benefit

Employers can apply starting Tuesday

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 23, 2021

Alberta has expanded the pool of workers eligible for its pandemic-related Critical Worker Benefit to include farm workers starting Tuesday (June 22). The province announced Tuesday that eligibility for the $1,200 payments would expand to more categories of workers who “provided critical services to Albertans, were essential to the supply and movement of goods, and

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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