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Saskatchewan pushes crop insurance deadline to mid-April

'Logistical challenges' led to extension

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Saskatchewan farmers will get an extra couple of weeks to apply for, cancel, reinstate or change their crop insurance contracts for 2022, due to holdups in the delivery of their application packages. That deadline, originally March 31, has now been extended to April 14, provincial Ag Minister David Marit and his federal counterpart Marie-Claude Bibeau
Drought conditions in Canada at Feb. 28, 2022. (Map courtesy Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Crops, Weather

Most of Prairies still very dry, but recovery possible

Southern Manitoba considered out of drought

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MarketsFarm — Despite the Prairies receiving above-normal amounts of precipitation during February, the great majority of the region remained highly vulnerable to more dryness going into spring, according to the Canadian Drought Monitor. The monitor’s latest report showed those areas of the Prairies tackling extreme drought to have retracted somewhat. As of Feb. 28, that
File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Louis Dreyfus suspends operations in Russia

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Paris | Reuters — Louis Dreyfus Co., (LDC), one of the world’s largest agricultural commodity merchants, has suspended its operations in Russia, it said on Friday. LDC did not provide further details in an emailed response to a question about the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on its activities. Like other crop traders, it
Province proposes open table potato and root vegetable market
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Province proposes open table potato and root vegetable market

Incoming bill would allow growers unlimited acres, ability to sell to any buyer

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The provincial government is proposing a major revamping of the business model for potatoes and root crops. In a press release issued Mar. 3, Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson said legislation is being introduced to “… help expand the provincial table potato and root crop industry.” “Our province’s farmers provide nutritious, local food to Manitobans, though
Manitoba Crop Alliance still focused on research to serve farmers
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Manitoba Crop Alliance still focused on research to serve farmers

Fred Greig steps down as chair but remains on the wheat and barley committee

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The Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA) remains focused on research to improve farmers’ returns, says its outgoing chair. Reston-area seed grower and cattle producer Fred Greig vacated the position following the checkoff-funded organization’s second annual meeting held online Feb. 17. However, he remains a member on the MCA’s wheat and barley committee. “I thought it was time for
Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Anti-meat rhetoric too simplistic

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I read with dismay the recent article, “Meat and dairy gobble up subsidies worldwide,” in your op-ed section, January 20, 2022. Mr. Springmann states there that agricultural subsidies prop up a food system that is neither healthy nor sustainable referring specifically to those that go to the meat and dairy production sector. He advocates shifting
Greenhouse manager Carmen Grey lifts a raft of lettuce to show the roots underneath.
Farmit Manitoba

Synergistic farming system teaches kids business, science

MBTI’s aquaponics operation grows fish and fresh produce in the heart of Winnipeg

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Outside snow is piled high and despite the bright sun, it’s a frigid Winnipeg afternoon. Cars whiz by on McPhillips Street. But out of sight of traffic and the railway tracks, fish swirl past the windows of two blue tanks and lettuce, chard and herbs dangle roots from bobbing Styrofoam rafts. In a warm, sunlit
Soil biology is garnering more attention as crop input costs rise.
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Farmers test microbes to nourish crops as climate pressure grows, costs rise

Soil biologicals are getting a lot of attention — and research money — in the past couple of years

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Reuters – Tech companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars, including backing from agriculture heavyweights like Bayer AG, in developing farm products that use living things like microbes and seaweed to nourish crops and lessen the need for synthetic fertilizer. Microbes, including fungi and viruses, have been available for decades as treatments to protect
Jeff Veenstra grows vegetables on Wild Earth Farms near Birds Hill Park, northeast of Winnipeg.
Farmit Manitoba

Acreage requirement drop for veggie insurance first step for small-scale farmers

Move shows MASC is listening to call for scale-appropriate BRMs, says Direct Farm Manitoba

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A drop in acreage required to insure vegetable crops has opened a door for smaller-scale and direct-marketing farmers. “This has really changed our ability to be insured quite significantly,” said Jeff Veenstra who farms northeast of Winnipeg. On January 25, the province announced it would reduce the minimum required acres for vegetable acreage loss insurance

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