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Crop development varies widely, watch closely for pest insects

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 13, August 2, 2022

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Overview Fungicide application is slowing across Manitoba, as crops grow past the appropriate timing windows. Producers have done much more fungicide application in 2022 than in recent years. A few insect concerns have popped up in localized spots across Manitoba, with bertha armyworm spraying reported in the Eastern region. Soybean and pea aphids have been
Fungal disease risk on the rise, soybeans see rapid growth
Crop Report, Crops, News

Fungal disease risk on the rise, soybeans see rapid growth

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 12, July 26, 2022

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Overview Rainfall amounts varied across the province with the highest amounts falling in the Eastern and Interlake regions. Most locations in Manitoba received between 20 to 60 mm in the preceding seven days. The Northwest region is the exception, where rainfall amounts ranged from 1 to 32 mm. Frequent rains and generally warm temperatures have
File photo of a lighthouse at the Ukrainian port of Chernomorsk on the Black Sea. (Larysa Shcherbyna/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Ukraine, Russia sign deal to reopen grain export ports

Russia says it 'won't take advantage' of de-mining of ports

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Istanbul/Kyiv | Reuters — Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasion can be eased. The accord crowned two months of talks brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, a NATO member that
File photo of a bulk port facility in Ukraine. (Olivia Sabeskaya/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Ukraine grain storage crisis hits home as farmers harvest new crops

Outlook bleak if sea export route not reopened soon

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Khreshchate, Ukraine | Reuters — Ukrainian farmer Mykola Tereshchenko hopes to start harvesting his wheat fields this week, but the smallholder in northern Ukraine has nowhere to store the grain. His silos are still crammed full with 1,100 tonnes of grain from last year’s harvest that he can’t export due to the closure of Ukraine’s
Cargo ships are docked in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Nov. 4, 2016. (File photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
Crops, Markets

As Ukraine grain deal emerges, U.S. aims to ease concerns over Russia sanctions

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Washington | Reuters –– The United States on Thursday sought to facilitate Russian food and fertilizer exports by reassuring banks, shipping and insurance companies that such transactions would not breach Washington’s sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. Enabling those Russian exports is a key part of attempts by the United Nations and Turkish
Crop conditions swiftly advance, heavy rains damage crops
Crop Report, Crops, News

Crop conditions swiftly advance, heavy rains damage crops

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 10, July 12, 2022

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Overview Crops have advanced rapidly across all parts of Manitoba this past week, faster than many agronomists had expected. Rapidly growing crops have hastened crop flowering, and cereal and canola fungicide application is well underway. Warm temperatures, high humidity, and rain in recent days has increased the risk for fusarium head blight and sclerotinia disease
Rusty patch bumblebees are native bees that are now listed as an endangered species.  
photo: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab/Creative Commons
Livestock, News, Other livestock

Another bad season for bees

Experts explore the reasons for bee population declines -- and ways to mitigate the problem

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Beekeepers reported high losses over the winter and experts are exploring the reasons and seeking ways to mitigate future colony declines. Ian Steppler, president of the Manitoba Beekeepers Association, said Manitoba’s losses this year are extremely high. “We’re nearly at a 60 per cent loss right across Manitoba right now, the highest loss in Canada
Granaries in the Odesa region of Southern Ukraine, June 22, 2022. With ports remaining closed despite international efforts to reach a deal, harvests are getting underway with storages still loaded with last year’s crops.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Dead end for Ukraine grain

Ukrainian farmers may soon be forced to make hard decisions about next season

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Two years ago, when the coronavirus pandemic swept over the world, I didn’t worry about Ukrainian farmers at all. They calmly did their work, plowed the land, sowed and harvested. If in Ukrainian cities then there was a difficult situation with COVID-19, then the farmers almost did not notice it. A year earlier, Ukraine’s fields

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