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Percentage of average precipitation in Western Canada for the 90 days ending April 5, 2021. (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada map)

Manitoba forage, grassland growers burned by drought

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News April 9, 2021

MarketsFarm — An ongoing lack of precipitation, which is showing no signs of letting up in the coming months according to weather forecasts, is already causing problems for Manitoba’s forage and grasslands. Growers in the province have had to deal with three straight years with lower-than-normal precipitation. In 2019, multiple rural municipalities in Manitoba’s Parkland

A mayfly on water. (SBTheGreenMan/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

Health Canada steps back from bans on two neonics

New limits, some cancellations to be put in place

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 1, 2021

A federal proposal to protect aquatic insect habitat by cancelling all registered outdoor uses for two popular ag insecticides has been walked back in a major way. Health Canada on Wednesday announced its special review decisions on the risks to aquatic bug life from the use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam, both pesticides and seed treatments

ABOVE: Little snow remains on fields near Brandon in mid-March.

Crops, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Manitoba farmers confronted with a dry spring

Much of agro-Manitoba is sitting at 30 per cent or less of normal precipitation since November, and that’s not counting the dry fall beforehand

By Alexis Stockford March 29, 2021

Agro-meteorologists have good news and bad news. The good news is: chances are you’re getting onto your field early this spring — in fact, the first reports of field work in central Manitoba have already started trickling in over social media. The bad news is: those worries you had about a dry spring are coming

Forages, News

Forage insurance changes arrive for spring

Weather warning flags this spring may merit giving the province’s revised forage insurance a closer look

By Alexis Stockford March 29, 2021

With another dry spring in the offing, it might be time to reconsider forage insurance in view of recent program changes. Those changes follow a forage insurance review completed last year. The province had announced the review in late 2019, following critically poor hay yields and widespread reports of feed shortfalls. The shortfalls led to

Livestock Markets, Markets

Auction action accelerates on warmer spring weather

Buyers Down East are now more current in their cattle purchases

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 26, 2021

Spring weather kept cattle auction yards across Manitoba busy during the last ‘official’ week of winter, as producers were busy moving animals before pastures green up and attention turns to field work. “It’s been an incredibly busy month all over Manitoba for cattle marketing ever since things warmed up after the cold snap,” said Allan

News, News & Opinion, Other

Manitoba farmland values higher again in 2020

FCC says, on average, this province's land prices rose 3.6 per cent versus 5.4 per cent nationally

By Allan Dawson March 15, 2021

Average Manitoba farmland prices were up 3.6 per cent in 2020, slightly below the Canadian average increase of 5.4 per cent Farm Credit Canada (FCC) announced in a news release Monday. A combination of low interest rates, which cut the cost of borrowing money to buy land, and higher farm cash receipts, especially for crops,

Farmit Manitoba

Beavers unlikely inspiration in drought mitigation

‘Biomimicry’ brought the Coen farm back from the edge of a water disaster

By Geralyn Wichers March 9, 2021

If you look closely at a Coen family photograph taken over 100 years ago, you’ll spot a well in the back corner of the picture. It’s hand-dug, about 20 feet deep — all it took to find drinkable water in 1914. Today, the farm’s wells are 180 feet deep. Takota Coen told his audience at

Dale Myhre, seen here feeding heifers in a 2019 photo, says valuing Crown land improvements needs to be systematically done to avoid conflicts.

Livestock, News, Other

Ranchers want cards on the table on land improvement values

A resolution from the Manitoba Beef Producers would have hard values for land improvements already assessed

By Alexis Stockford March 5, 2021

Manitoba’s beef producers want to know exactly how much those fences and dugouts are worth before Crown land parcels hit the auction block. Northern ranchers, many very dependent on Crown land, are pushing for a third-party assessment to be added to the Crown lands lease system — something they say would reduce the chance for

Elanco Animal Health CEO Jeff Simmons speaks during an interview at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Sept. 20, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Livestock, Other

Second activist investor buys into Elanco

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 3, 2021

Reuters — Hedge fund Starboard Value LP has taken a stake in Elanco Animal Health and nominated three directors to the animal healthcare company’s board, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The WSJ report did not mention the size of Starboard’s stake in Elanco, which makes treatments for pets

Gerond Davidson — seen here with his family — is the fifth generation to farm at Springbank Farm near Neepawa.

Beef cattle, Farmit Manitoba

Grass-fed beef helping grasslands thrive

New interest from restaurant chains like A&W can help showcase beef more favourably with consumers

By Wayne Hildebrand March 3, 2021

“There’s no excuse not to try grass-fed beef,” says the recently mailed A&W coupon book. Why would A&W move to serving customers only grass-fed beef? “It is all about feeling good about the food you eat,” says the coupon book. OK, but what is so special about grass-fed beef? It’s simple says A&W, “cattle graze

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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