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MCA resolutions on better data on grain sales, gene editing regs

The MCA general meeting saw several issues debated during the virtual meeting

By Allan Dawson February 24, 2022

Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA) members discussed five resolutions during their online annual meeting, passing them all. They are as follows: 1. That the MCA work with other commissions and organizations to advocate for the establishment of an Export Sales Reporting Program where all sales over the set minimum volume for all Canadian grains, pulses and

Diamondback hit the eastern part of the province and the Interlake hardest last year.

Crops, News

Intermittent pests played role last season

Most of these insects only arrive in numbers if the conditions line up

By Gord Leathers February 17, 2022

Although grasshoppers and flea beetles were last season’s major insect pests in Manitoba, there were a few other players that caused significant trouble on a regional scale. Many farmers in different parts of the province had diamondback moth and cereal aphids blow in with the winds. Others had trouble with alfalfa weevils and lygus bugs.

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Funding boosts beekeeping extension

The Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association extension and research program has another $20,000 for the coming year

By Alexis Stockford February 8, 2022

The Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association (MBA) hopes a jolt of funding will help bolster research and extension efforts. The Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), which blends commodity groups for wheat and barley, flax, sunflowers, corn and winter cereals, announced in January that it would be providing $10,000 for the MBA’s Knowledge Research Transfer Program in the coming

The increase in world production of canola comes despite a downward revision to the already small Canadian crop.

Markets, News

Canola crunch seen easing: USDA

Large canola and sunflower harvests elsewhere to offset poor Canadian production

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 10, 2022

MarketsFarm – Good canola/rapeseed crops in Australia and a number of other parts of the world along with large world sunflower seed production should help offset Canada’s small production somewhat, according to the December Oil Crops Outlook from the United States Department of Agriculture. Total global canola/rapeseed production is now forecast at 68.35 million tonnes by the

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson received 2.7 inches of rain at his home near Miami. Man., June 9 — the most rain he received in one event during the 2021 growing season. The tap turned off in July with just 0.8 inch recorded the whole month. While it was dry around Miami, some parts of the province, including the Interlake, received much less.

News

The drought of 2021 won’t soon be forgotten

Dry weather and near-record heat ended a string of bumper Manitoba crops

By Allan Dawson January 6, 2022

Late last winter a farmer friend shared his concern about the 2021 growing season. We’d had almost no snow in southern Manitoba and the previous fall and summer had been dry too. It felt like drought. He was right. As someone present for both I’d say 2021 was the worst drought here since 1988. This

Crops, News

Growers wanted for fertilizer survey

Crop alliance and Fertilizer Canada teaming up on grower survey

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 22, 2021

Manitoba Crop Alliance and Fertilizer Canada are again looking for Manitoba farmers to complete a survey on their fertility practices — this time in corn, sunflower and flax crops. Manitoba Corn Growers Association, now part of the MCA, partially funded a similar survey in 2017 for corn and canola. In a media release the MCA

A sunflower crop north of St. Adolphe, Man. on Sept. 19, 2021. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

USDA expects canola, sunflowers elsewhere to offset Canada’s shortfalls

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin December 14, 2021

MarketsFarm –– Good canola and rapeseed crops in Australia and a number of other parts of the world along with large world sunflower seed production should help offset Canada’s smaller-than-expected production somewhat, according to the December oil crops outlook from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Total global canola/rapeseed production is now forecast by USDA at

The Prairie Innovation Centre is expected to repurpose the Valleyview Building on ACC's North Hill campus.

News

Crop Alliance commits $100,000 to Prairie Innovation Centre

ACC says centre is latest step in drive to become a national leader in a griculture education

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 29, 2021

The Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA) has committed $100,000 to the Collaboration Zone within Assiniboine Community College’s Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. The Collaboration Zone is touted as a spot where education and industry will meet. MCA represents five key commodities in the province: spring and winter wheat, sunflowers, corn, barley and flax. “The birth

Crops, Markets, Weather

Rains make sunny days for sunflower crops

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News October 21, 2021

MarketsFarm — Despite drought conditions throughout southern Manitoba decimating crops during the summer, late rain showers in some areas are improving harvests of one crop in particular. Precipitation in August helped improve the sunflower seed harvest in areas of Manitoba, with the province reporting on Oct. 13 average yields of more than 2,000 lbs. per

Crop Report, Crops, News

Manitoba harvest 95 per cent complete, soils remain dry

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for October 5

By Manitoba Agriculture October 5, 2021

Southwest Region Temperatures have been variable, with daytime highs ranging from 27 to 32 C. Overnight lows dropped to as low as 5.0 to -0.5 C, with no severe frost reports. Average daily temperatures range from 14 C to 16 C. Forecast looks promising for the remainder of harvest. Above normal temperatures are making harvest

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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