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Don’t count your silver linings before they’re hatched

Cool, wet conditions may slow grasshopper emergence, but it’s unlikely to make a dent in this year’s populations

By Don Norman June 14, 2022

Farmers who think they might get a reprieve from the grasshopper problems they’ve had in recent years, because of the excessive rainfall in April and May, may need to temper those expectations, warns Manitoba Agriculture entomologist, John Gavloski. “A lot of people make the assumption that if there’s a lot of standing water in the

Crops, News

No washing away salinity risk

The same hydrology that made drought a salinity issue also causes problems the other way

By Don Norman June 7, 2022

Farmers thinking that this year’s rains might wash away the salinity problems they faced during last year’s drought need to think again. Marla Riekman, a soil management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says that while it might seem counterintuitive, as things dry out in wet years like this, salinity tends to get worse. “With salinity, we

Workers fill jerrycans with cooking oil at a distribution station in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 20, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)

Crops, Markets

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

By GFM Network News May 24, 2022

Davos | Reuters — A growing world food crisis is precipitating protectionist moves by countries which are likely to compound the problem and could lead to a wider trade war, business leaders and policymakers at the World Economic Forum said. In a sign of the escalating squeeze on food supplies and rising prices, a government

Crops, Weather

Planting progress picking up in Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm May 20, 2022

MarketsFarm — Overall spring planting across Saskatchewan reached 33 per cent complete as of Monday, according to the latest weekly crop report from Saskatchewan Agriculture. Despite the good progress over the week, that’s still 20 points behind the five-year average. When compared to the excellent progress this time last year, the gap expands to 41

News, Weather

Walking the weather tightrope

With weather volatility on an upwards trend, what’s the future of water management in Manitoba?

By Alexis Stockford May 19, 2022

Greg Archibald and the staff of the Pembina Valley Water Co-op spent the first days of May steeling themselves for a really bad week. The co-op, which supplies potable water to about 50,000 people in south-central Manitoba, was watching its three water treatment plants with a hawk’s gaze, after a string of April storms swelled

Climate change requires all net CO2 emitters to cut output.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Real GHG emissions solutions need open mind

First steps in ag climate fight are honesty and courage, not offsets and credits

By Alan Guebert May 16, 2022

[UPDATED: May 19, 2022] Last May, the Canadian National Farmers Union (NFU), submitted a detailed response to the Canadian government’s earlier “Draft Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations.” The response, like the government request, went relatively unnoticed in U.S. ag circles. It shouldn’t have because the 23-page reply by the NFU was as shocking in

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on May 8, 2022. (PMO photo by Adam Scotti via Reuters)

Crops, Markets

Trudeau pledges help for Ukraine to find options to export grain

Turkey's co-operation seen as important, Joly says

By GFM Network News May 10, 2022

Kyiv | Reuters — Canada will help Ukraine work out options on how to export stored grain to address global food security that has been shaken by Russia’s invasion of the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said late on Sunday. Nearly 25 million tonnes of grains are stuck in Ukraine, unable to leave the country

Weather

World could see 1.5 C of warming in next five years, WMO reports

By GFM Network News, Gloria Dickie May 9, 2022

London | Reuters — The world faces a 50 per cent chance of warming of 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday. That does not mean the world would be crossing the long-term warming threshold of 1.5 C (2.7 F), which scientists have set

AAFC’s Drought Monitor map at April 30, 2022. (Agriculture.canada.ca)

Weather

Drought gone in Manitoba but worsening in Alberta, AAFC reports

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm May 9, 2022

MarketsFarm — Record-breaking precipitation in southern Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan helped improve moisture conditions in the region in April, taking much of the area out of the drought classification, according to the latest Drought Monitor report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) for the period ended April 30. Two separate Colorado lows brought significant snow,

Markets, News

Indonesia industry group confident palm oil export ban could end in May

By Reuters May 9, 2022

Indonesia should be able to tackle its cooking oil shortage in the next few weeks and lift an export ban on palm oil and its refined products in May, an industry body said on April 28, a day after a last-minute policy U-turn sparked more alarm for markets. The world’s top palm oil producer expanded

Daily Network News

ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

B.C. agrochemical startup gets $1.2M in federal funding

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