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It can be tempting to eliminate wet areas in your field such as the one seen here, but one researcher equates it to short-term gain for long-term pain.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: A slight depression

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It might be time to consider the business case for the humble slough, pothole and other low-lying areas on your land. Typically they’re viewed as an annoyance at best, and a waste at worst. Larger equipment has made draining them more tempting over the years and there’s always the understandable desire to maximize acreage by
Millions of small depressions across the Prairie landscape capture precipitation and enable infiltration.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Unique pothole landscape allows annual spring groundwater recharge on Prairies

Landscape depressions capture run-off, enable slow infiltration into earth

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It’s been a scorcher across the Prairies this year. Even the typically moist Red River Valley registered exceptional drought last summer and western farmers are seriously hoping for snow cover this winter to bring those soil moisture levels up. Masaki Hayashi, a professor with the University of Calgary’s geoscience department, says that’s only half of
Potato digging went relatively smoothly this year, but drought and high temperatures caused disappointing yields.
Crops, News

Potato crop a mixed bag

Drought has struck yet again, hitting Manitoba’s potato yield

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While some potato growers are expecting to deliver on their contract volumes this year, others will once again be short thanks to heat and drought, adding yet another tough potato year into the record books. Why it matters: Potatoes did not dodge the drought concerns suffered by other crops this year, and many producers are,
Farmer Jay Ruskey, the chief executive of FRINJ Coffee, drives his truck around his farm in California, where he planted coffee trees.
News

Wake up and smell the coffee…

Global warming is shifting the Coffee Belt northward

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Reuters – Farmer David Armstrong recently finished planting what is likely the most challenging crop his family has ever cultivated since his ancestors started farming in 1865 — 20,000 coffee trees. Except Armstrong is not in the tropics of Central America — he is in Ventura, California, just 60 miles (97 km) away from downtown Los Angeles.
Fly fisherman Shane Olson fishes the Crowsnest River near Blairmore, Alberta, June 16, 2021. Fishermen are worried that the new proposed Cabin Ridge coal mine would increase pollution in area rivers.
News

Rocky Mountain dry

Prairies’ waning water supply sows division in Farm Belt

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Where fly fisherman Shane Olson once paddled summer tourists around in a boat, he now guides them by foot – carefully navigating shallow waters one step at a time. “Every year, these rivers seem to be getting smaller, faster,” Olson, 48, said, whipping a gleaming fishing line over the Crowsnest River about 45 miles (72
In 2020, U.S. gas sales were 119 billion gallons, down 21 billion gallons compared to 2017.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Ethanol’s future is running out of gas

As electric vehicles take off, biofuels are set to sputter

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The key ingredients for a looming crack-up in ethanol — the fast rise of electric vehicles, lukewarm politics, and more evidence of catastrophic climate change — are in place and few in ag policy circles are prepared to face that reality. In fact, none of those woes are new; they’ve been building for years. For
red river
Farmit Manitoba, Other

South-central municipalities, cities fighting to keep water flowing

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WORRIES | Struggling dairy farmers not out of water yet, but are being careful, digging new wells, says Dairy Farmers of Manitoba

The water co-op that supplies some water to houses, hospitals, businesses and farms in Morden, Winkler, Altona, Carman and many other south-central communities has been forced to install temporary water intakes in the Red River after water levels fell too low to reliably reach its system. “For us, our life is turned right upside down
“Doesn’t matter what kind of farm it is, but that is the end of the line at that point.” – David Wiens.
Livestock, News

Dairy farmers face emptying water wells

Feed and supplement costs, freight, new water sources gouging dairy margins

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Some dairy farmers are concerned their wells will run dry as drought persists, says Dairy Farmers of Manitoba (DFM). Nineteen per cent of dairy farmers in a late-July DFM survey said they were worried about their water supply, said DFM chair David Wiens. “One of the comments was that the farm expects to run out
A hawk on a fence post in Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

Indigenous-led ag projects get federal funding

Funding to support business planning and other studies

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Sixteen projects to help support Indigenous-led food system initiatives will receive $4 million from the federal government. “Our government is working to create a more inclusive agriculture sector that respects the values of Indigenous Peoples,” Agriculture Minister Marie Claude Bibeau said in a statement Friday. “These investments are intended to ensure that Indigenous Peoples have

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