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Delegates discuss soil health issues, solutions and what should be included in a hypothetical soil health kit during a breakout session of the Global 4-H Summit.

4-H’ers dig into soil health policy and education

Soil health was a repeat topic as 4-H members from around the world turned their attention to sustainable agriculture and food security

By Alexis Stockford August 16, 2017

It’s time to think about what lies below our feet. That was the message delegates from 35 countries received from multiple speakers at the recent Global 4-H Summit in Ottawa. Soil health emerged from several workshops during the third day of the July 11-14 conference, themed around sustainable agriculture and food security. Syngenta Canada, also

Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler says government needs to have the right support programs to meet farmers’ needs.

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Analysis: AgriStability review welcomed, but can it be fixed without more money?

KAP says in 2013 the program switched from farm income stability to disaster relief

By Allan Dawson August 15, 2017

After cuts to AgriStability five years ago, then Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Doug Chorney predicted “AgriStability will be losing support… from farmers because it really has got to be questionable if you’ll ever see a payment.” He was right. Participation is down. In 2013, there were 7,015 Manitoba farmers enrolled in the federal-provincial ‘business

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Rain falls, but more needed; cereal harvesting, canola swathing begin

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 14

By Manitoba Agriculture August 14, 2017

Warm weather has advanced crops, and also caused some injury in canola. Rainfall occurred throughout the province, but more rainfall is needed in many areas. Harvest has begun in winter cereals, spring cereals, and field peas. Canola is starting to be swathed. Insect monitoring is on-going, but disease incidence remains low. Haying continues, but in

Forages, Livestock, Weather

Drought-related livestock tax deferral zones widen again

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 14, 2017

More ranchers in five provinces may now be able to defer some of their taxable income from their livestock sales in 2016 due to drought. The federal government on Aug. 4 announced its final list of drought-designated regions where the livestock tax deferral provision will be allowed for the 2016 tax year, and has included

Ahead of NAFTA talks, Canada says dispute mechanism essential

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 11, 2017

Ottawa | Reuters — An effective dispute settlement mechanism is essential in any trade agreement, Canada’s foreign affairs minister said on Friday, less than a week before the first round of negotiations on the North American trade pact. Canada’s desire to include a dispute settlement mechanism in a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Crops, Local news

VIDEO: Growing North

KAP heads to northern Manitoba to hear from producers

By Shannon VanRaes August 10, 2017

Four communities, six flights and two days. Follow Keystone Agricultural Producers as they tour the organization’s northern districts and learn about production challenges and successes beyond Manitoba’s boreal forest. From excess moisture and transportation issues, to emerging opportunities in forestry and surface water management, the province’s northern farms are breaking new ground.

Part of the delegation from Kenya stops for a photo during sustainable agriculture and food security day at the Global 4-H Summit.

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4-H finds fertile ground to tackle food security

Vertical gardens and composting are among the 4-H projects to help African families produce their own food

By Alexis Stockford August 9, 2017

North American 4-H may have branched into everything from babysitting to robotics, but elsewhere it’s still back to the basics — producing enough food for the family. Shannon Benner, CEO of 4-H Canada and chair of the Global 4-H Network, estimates that about 60 per cent of programs worldwide are focused on agriculture or food

George Gray, reeve of RM of Dufferin, spoke at the Manitoba Planning Conference earlier this spring about why Dufferin came to adopt its own tile drainage bylaw.

Crops, Local news

Dufferin’s tile drainage bylaw a ‘template’ for others

The Red River Basin Commission is currently guiding development of a tile drainage  bylaw template based on the RM’s work

By Lorraine Stevenson August 8, 2017

Rural municipalities are responsible for controlling drainage, and a few years ago the RM of Dufferin realized that needed to include tile drains. Former reeve, Shawn McCutcheon saw tiling becoming more widely adopted, and could see need for a made-in-Dufferin approach to managing it, said current reeve, George Gray. “We knew it was going to

Lowe Farm farmer Butch Harder expressed concerns about changes to KAP’s checkoff legislation at KAP’s advisory council meeting in Brandon July 13.

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KAP hopes improved checkoff ready for its next fiscal year

Under proposed changes, partial checkoff fees would stay with KAP rather than being refunded 

By Allan Dawson August 4, 2017

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) hopes Bill 35, legislation to amend its funding checkoff, will be law by the start of KAP’s new fiscal year Dec. 1, 2017. “I’m very hopeful that these changes, while not a wholesale overhaul of the (Agricultural Producers’ Organization Funding Act) and the way our system functions, will make things a

Crops

U.S. bee numbers growing

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team August 3, 2017

CNS Canada – Honeybee populations are rising in the United States, turning around a recent trend of declines attributed to a set of factors know as colony collapse disorder. It’s estimated that 84,430 hives were lost to the disorder in the first quarter this year. That’s down 27 per cent from a year earlier. Year-over-year

Daily Network News

Thirty-six employers banned from Temporary Foreign Worker program, federal agency says

Tyson, Cargill to pay $88 million to consumers in U.S. beef price-fixing lawsuit

Klassen: Highs in place for the feeder market

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