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Province lifts limitation on pasture insurance

The pasture insurance pilot program that was limited to  90 producers last year is now open to the entire province

By Jennifer Paige February 2, 2016

Producers who graze their cattle have a new option for protecting themselves from underperforming pastures. Ron Kostyshyn, minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, announced January 19 that the province has lifted limitations on the pasture days insurance program. The program is designed to compensate producers who have had to remove livestock from pasture and

Livestock, Weather

Drought-related tax deferral zones expand in West

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 2, 2016

More livestock producers in the West who had to sell breeding stock due to drought in the 2015 tax year will be able to defer some or most of that income at tax time. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Tuesday announced more designated areas in all four western provinces where producers will be eligible

Crops, Forages

Ducks Unlimited shifts forage incentive for Manitoba

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 29, 2016

A program encouraging Prairie farmers to improve waterfowl habitat by flipping cropland into hayland or pasture will continue the same this spring, except in Manitoba. The DUC/CPS forage program, offered by Ducks Unlimited Canada and Crop Production Services (CPS) Canada, will still see growers in Saskatchewan and Alberta get a rebate of $100 for each

Riparian habitat at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (FWS.gov/refuge/Malheur)

Livestock

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

By GFM Network News, Peter Henderson January 27, 2016

Reuters — U.S. and state officials in Oregon on Wednesday set up checkpoints around Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where an armed group pledged to prolong its standoff with the government a day after one protester was shot and eight others were arrested. Authorities said the new security involves a series of checkpoints along key routes

News

LIVE BLOG: Alberta FarmTech 2016

Event begins Tuesday, Jan. 26 and runs to Thursday, Jan. 28

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 26, 2016

Edmonton’s EXPO Centre at Northlands is the place to be for producers and the public during Alberta FarmTech 2016, running from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28. Want up-to-the-minute information on what’s going on at FarmTech? Check out our live blog page here! FarmTech features more than 50 sessions and a world class lineup of speakers providing attendees

Livestock, Weather

Ontario weighs mandatory beekeeping practices in draft plan

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 25, 2016

Fresh off limiting farmers’ use of neonicotinoid seed treatments, the Ontario government now wants public comment on further moves it might make to improve the health of bees and other pollinators in the province. Among the “potential actions” up for consideration in the province’s new draft action plan are the use of public lands to expand

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Retreating equities undermine CME live cattle

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters January 20, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Wednesday, pressured by falling U.S. stock futures amid the unrelenting slide in crude oil prices, traders said. February live cattle ended 2.05 cents/lb. lower at 127.25 cents, and April closed down 1.975 cents at 128.175 (all figures US$). Bullish CME live cattle

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Uncertainty causes feeder market volatility

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen January 19, 2016

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices traded steady to as much as $10 lower compared to week-ago levels. Feedlot hands are contending with adverse winter conditions and cattle travelling farther distances were down $6 to $12 in non-major feeding regions. Feeder markets were slightly softer Monday through Wednesday; however, feedlot operators were quick to back away

Editorial

Editorial: A whole-farm approach

By Laura Rance-Unger January 18, 2016

If you think the future of government support for agriculture lies in doing more of the same but only better, you’ll get little comfort from Manitoba’s Agriculture Risk Management Review Task Force report released last week. The 25 recommendations and the supporting appendix report should also make you a little uncomfortable if you think the

Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for the week centred on Jan. 6. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Livestock, Weather

U.S. forecaster sees El Nino conditions weakening

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 14, 2016

Reuters — The El Nino phenomenon currently affecting weather is expected to weaken during the Northern Hemisphere spring and transition to normal conditions by late spring or early summer, a U.S. government weather forecaster said Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, was in line in its monthly forecast

Daily Network News

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Pasture

Province lifts limitation on pasture insurance

Drought-related tax deferral zones expand in West

Ducks Unlimited shifts forage incentive for Manitoba

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

LIVE BLOG: Alberta FarmTech 2016

Ontario weighs mandatory beekeeping practices in draft plan

U.S. livestock: Retreating equities undermine CME live cattle

Klassen: Uncertainty causes feeder market volatility

Editorial: A whole-farm approach

U.S. forecaster sees El Nino conditions weakening

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