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ReWild co-founder Kennedy Collins in his home garden.
Farmit Manitoba

Manitoba seed company brings regenerative ag to garden scale

ReWild Garden Seed’s Spring Fling Cover Crop blend is designed to boost soil health and water infiltration in home gardens

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A team of Manitoba farmers and gardeners are taking their love of regenerative farming and shrinking it from field to garden. “When we started regenerative farming on my family farm, we turned to cover cropping to replace our reliance on fertilizers,” said Joseph Gardiner, co-founder of ReWild Garden Seed in a news release May 13.
‘It’s no surprise that the industrial cheeseburger is no longer sustainable and is no longer competitive,’ said a U.K.-based consultant during a recent webinar on the Future of Food.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Disruptive change is coming to our food sector

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Farmers are no stranger to new technology and are usually quick to adopt developments that can increase production, or at the very least reduce the risk of losses. Most are well aware that the digital age is likely to bring transformative change to agriculture and food — even if they aren’t quite ready to fully
Mosaic’s potash facility at Esterhazy, Sask. (Greg Berg photo)
Crops, Markets

Flood risk forces Mosaic to shut Esterhazy potash shaft

Company to restart Colonsay mine

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Winnipeg | Reuters — Fertilizer producer Mosaic Co. said Friday it would immediately cut production at its biggest potash mine due to flood risks, and restart an idled mine to offset some of the reduction. Mosaic’s K1 and K2 mine shafts at Esterhazy, Sask., about 75 km southeast of Yorkton, have long been prone to
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Crop protection under fire

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It’s shaping up to be a tough year on the crop-protection front. I don’t mean pests, diseases and weeds. For any producer, those are perennial challenges that will wax and wane with weather and pest pressure. I speak instead of the regulatory and legal fronts, where as you will read in our May 27 issue,
“The only way to obtain frequent and reliable observations over this entire landscape is to use space-based systems that let us collect images over the entire landscape with no gaps.”
News

Space and agriculture meet on social media

Reddit ‘ask-me-anything’ event with Canadian officials attracts interest, bizarre queries

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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) partnered with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to do an “Ask Me Anything” event on social media. On May 5, officials from both agencies took to the popular social media site Reddit to answer questions from the public about “how space helps agriculture.” Nearly 200 people directly engaged in the discussion. Some of
Cutworms. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Crops, Weather

Prairie growers on lookout as insects seize opportunity

Dry conditions, delayed seeding lift pest counts

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MarketsFarm — With most Prairie growers’ newly seeded crops already up against dry conditions, growers remain on the lookout for insects which further threaten the health of those seedlings. Considering the high prices of many crops this season, the potential damage would be more costly. John Gavloski, entomologist for Manitoba Agriculture, said there is a
Barry Senft. (Supplied photo)
Crops

Ex-GFO CEO to manage Seeds Canada

Barry Senft to help build up merged seed-industry group

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The four Canadian seed industry organizations now operating as Seeds Canada have named their first organizer-in-chief. Barry Senft, whose resume in Canadian agriculture includes stints as CEO for Grain Farmers of Ontario, executive director for the Canadian International Grains Institute, chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission and second vice-president for Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, becomes
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News

Early-pandemic calls to localize supply chains unfounded

With a year's worth of data, three agriculture economists revisit early-pandemic predictions on the food supply chain

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With a year's worth of data, three agriculture economists revisit early-pandemic predictions on the food supply chain

A year of data shows early-pandemic calls for radical changes to food systems and risk management programs were unfounded, say some economists. Particularly in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, food supply chains struggled to adapt to changing consumption patterns and processors shut down due to virus outbreaks. “Into that void of uncertainty came
“French fry?” McIntosh talks potatoes with a youngster in this undated commercial, posted to YouTube nine years ago.
Farmit Manitoba

Peak of the Market president to retire after 27 years

A Toronto kid with no ties to agriculture, Larry McIntosh learned to love Manitoba, then its vegetable farmers

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The face of Manitoba vegetables, Larry McIntosh, is retiring after 27 years with Peak of the Market. “There’s no question, I’m going to miss the people and the positive environment,” Larry McIntosh told the Co-operator. “I love coming to work every day. We have a lot of fun.” Under McIntosh’s direction as president and CEO,
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Crops, Markets

Montreal longshore workers escalate strike

Strike to move from part-time to full-time on Monday

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Exports of containerized crops and other goods and imports of ag inputs may stall as striking longshore workers at the Port of Montreal get set to level up from part-time to full-time work stoppage. The Syndicat des debardeurs du port de Montreal (CUPE Local 375) said Friday its members, who have been striking on weekends

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