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Cereal harvest making good progress, flax, soybean harvests take off

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for September 5

By Manitoba Agriculture September 5, 2017

Harvest continues across the province with good progress being made in cereal crops and canola. Flax, soybeans, and edible beans are starting to be harvested. Yield reports to date: barley 75-120 bu/acre, oat 90-190 bu/acre, spring wheat 55-100 bu/acre, field pea 50-90 bu/acre, canola 40-65 bu/acre, flax 35-45 bu/acre, pinto bean 1800-2000 lb/acre, cranberry bean

Crops

New Brunswick splits agriculture, aquaculture files

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 5, 2017

Ministerial oversight of agriculture and aquaculture will be split between two cabinet ministers in New Brunswick following a shuffle Tuesday. Premier Brian Gallant on Tuesday named Carleton-Victoria MLA Andrew Harvey as the new minister of agriculture, mines and rural affairs. Saint John-area MLA Rick Doucet, who until now also handled the ag file, remains as

Alanna Koch appears with her family on a new website for her candidacy as Saskatchewan Party leader. (Alannaforleader.ca)

Crops

Koch to seek Saskatchewan Party leadership

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 29, 2017

A long-time Prairie agriculture policy player who last year became Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall’s seniormost bureaucrat has joined the race to replace him. Alanna Koch, who farms with her husband at Edenwold, Sask., about 40 km northeast of Regina, announced her candidacy Monday for the leadership of the province’s governing Saskatchewan Party. Koch was the

Crop Report, Crops, Local news

Winter cereals, pea crop harvest nearly complete, canola harvest continues

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 28

By Manitoba Agriculture August 28, 2017

Rain fell throughout the province, but most areas received limited amounts. Rain is still needed in late season crops and on pastures. Winter cereal and pea harvest is complete in most areas. Harvest continues in spring cereals and canola. To date, winter wheat yields range from 50 to 80 bu/acre, fall rye 75 to 110

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Fair weather quickly advances crops, winter cereal harvest nearly complete

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 21

By Manitoba Agriculture August 21, 2017

Warm temperatures continue to advance crops quickly. Rain fell throughout the province, but most areas received limited amounts and more is still needed. Harvest of winter cereals and peas is nearing completion. Spring cereal harvest continues, and canola is starting to be harvested in the central region. Haying continues, but in dry areas there is

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U.S. takes tough lines as NAFTA negotiations begin

By Anthony Esposito, David Ljunggren, GFM Network News August 16, 2017

Washington | Reuters — The United States drew a hard line for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday, demanding major concessions aimed at slashing U.S. trade deficits with Mexico and Canada and boosting U.S. content for autos. At the start of talks in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser, Robert

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Hot weather advances crops, hurts some canola in process

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 8

By Manitoba Agriculture August 9, 2017

Moderate to hot weather from past weeks has advanced crops, but also caused some injury in canola. Rainfall occurred throughout the province, but in many areas more is still needed. Harvest has begun in winter cereals and field peas with good yields and quality reported. Insect monitoring is on-going in many crops, but disease incidence

Hands experimenting with wheat in a laboratory

News

Farm support programs undergo changes

But some farm leaders say more is needed

By Alex Binkley July 27, 2017

Growing Forward 2 will transform into the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) next year with some changes to the existing Business Risk Management (BRM) programs, the federal and provincial agriculture ministers agreed at their annual summer meeting July 19-21. The ministers also agreed to calls from farm groups for a full review of the BRM programs

(Photo courtesy ARS/USDA Northern Plains Ag Research Lab, Sidney, Montana.)

Crops

Aerial crop sprayers grounded in Western Canada

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin July 21, 2017

CNS Canada — Aerial crop sprayers are spending more time on the ground than in the air in Western Canada this season, with hot and dry weather limiting disease pressures and changing the economic threshold for insect applications. “The crops came out of the ground very aggressively and good, but there was a prolonged hot

Livestock

U.S. makes lower trade deficit priority in NAFTA talks

By David Lawder, GFM Network News, Lesley Wroughton July 17, 2017

Washington | Reuters — The United States on Monday launched the first salvo in the renegotiation of the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), saying its top priority for the talks was shrinking the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and Mexico. In a much-anticipated document sent to lawmakers, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said

Daily Network News

USDA defends $12 billion subsidy amid farm economy challenges

Canada December retail sales down 0.4 per cent; seen up 1.5 per cent in January

Feed Grains Weekly: Domestic prices remain flat

Potatoes

Cereal harvest making good progress, flax, soybean harvests take off

New Brunswick splits agriculture, aquaculture files

Koch to seek Saskatchewan Party leadership

Winter cereals, pea crop harvest nearly complete, canola harvest continues

Fair weather quickly advances crops, winter cereal harvest nearly complete

U.S. takes tough lines as NAFTA negotiations begin

Hot weather advances crops, hurts some canola in process

Farm support programs undergo changes

Aerial crop sprayers grounded in Western Canada

U.S. makes lower trade deficit priority in NAFTA talks

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