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Soil tests seek a non-chemical attraction
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Soil tests seek a non-chemical attraction

Researchers hope to hone in on biological soil testing when it comes to inoculating legumes

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Manitoba expat Barney Geddes, an assistant professor with the microbiological sciences program at North Dakota State University, likes to tell health care researchers how important the development of nitrogen fertilizer was. In terms of human lives saved, it’s had a greater impact than all innovations produced by medical science put together. “It’s sort of entertaining,”
File photo of a CN locomotive. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

CN, mechanics avert strike with tentative deal

Ratification votes pending

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Canadian National Railway and the union representing its mechanics and intermodal and clerical workers have reached a tentative labour deal, averting a potential strike. CN, Unifor Local 100 and Unifor Council 4000 on Monday announced they have reached four new tentative collective agreements to cover about 3,000 railway employees, who had voted earlier this month
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Manitoba farmland values up 11.2 per cent

Prairie provinces all show double-digit increases in farmland values

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Average Manitoba farmland prices were up 11.2 per cent in 2022 — slightly below the Canadian average increase of 12.8 per cent. The data was released in a Farm Credit Canada report March 13 and represents the largest increase the province has seen since 2015, when prices rose 12.4 per cent. This year’s increase follows jumps of
Pacific Ocean sea surface anomalies (in degrees Celsius) for the weeks centred on Jan. 4 (top) and March 15, 2023 (bottom).
Weather

El Niño could arrive by summer

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Reuters — La Niña has ended and neutral conditions are expected to continue through the Northern Hemisphere’s spring and early summer 2023, a U.S. government weather forecaster said March 9. El Niño could possibly form during summer 2023 and persist through the fall, they added. “The forecaster consensus favours ENSO-neutral through summer 2023, with elevated
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with U.S. President Joe Biden next to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a G-7 meeting in the summer of 2022. Canada and the U.S. are beginning to talk about Indo-Pacific issues.
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Crops Convention: As world fragments, ground game vital for success

The era of globalization is receding and regionalization is the order of the day

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Don’t expect a return to normal geopolitical conditions, at least not if the past several decades can be considered normal. That was Janice Gross Stein’s message March 8 in an opening address to the Canadian Crops Convention in Ottawa. The noted political scientist and founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public
Vessels are seen as they await inspection under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the UN and Turkey, in the southern anchorage of the Bosphorus at Istanbul on Dec. 11, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Yoruk Isik)
Crops, Markets

Ukraine Black Sea grain deal extended for at least 60 days

UN, Turkey not yet specifying extension's duration

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Ankara/United Nations | Reuters — A deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain was renewed on Saturday for at least 60 days — half the intended period — after Russia warned any further extension beyond mid-May would depend on the removal of some Western sanctions. The pact was brokered with Russia and
Commercial vessels –including vessels which are part of the Black Sea grain deal — wait to pass the Bosphorus strait off the shores of Yenikapi during a misty morning in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 31, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Umit Bektas)
Crops

UN backs Turkey, Ukraine in call for 120-day grain deal rollover

Text of original deal calls for 120, UN says

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United Nations | Reuters — The United Nations backed Turkey and Ukraine on Thursday by calling for a 120-day rollover of an agreement allowing the safe export of grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports after Russia said it would only extend the pact for 60 days. The pact is due to expire on Saturday.
Bill Greuel, CEO of Protein Industries Canada, announces a $9.5 million investment in Merit Functional Foods in 2020. He was joined by company co-CEO Ryan Bracken (left) and the late Jim Carr (centre), the federal government’s special representative for the Prairies at the time.
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Protein industry maintains optimism despite processor’s fall

Investment in alternative protein slowed in 2022 but demand for products is still high

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The whole plant protein sector has been hit by the challenges experienced by Merit Functional Foods, but basic indicators for growth are still strong, according to the head of Protein Industries Canada (PIC). “I do believe the demand is there and is growing,” Bill Greuel, the organization’s CEO, said. A federally funded accelerator program for
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Crops

U.S. regulator approves CP’s purchase of Kansas City Southern

Two U.S. grain grower groups warn of reduced rail competition

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Washington | Reuters — The Surface Transportation Board of the United States said on Wednesday it had approved Canadian Pacific Railway’s US$31 billion acquisition of railroad company Kansas City Southern, with a series of environmental and competition conditions. The board, which oversees U.S. freight railroads, is imposing some requirements on the deal, which was agreed

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