Sunny weather earlier this week finally gave Mani toba farmers a chance to put their long-delayed spring seeding plans into action. “It’s extremely good news,” said Chuck Fossay, who farms near Starbuck just west of Winnipeg. “It looks like the fields will finally dry up and probably in the next two or three days we’ll
Spring Seeding Picks Up Speed
MBP Is First Stop For Cattle Evacuation Information
Cattle producers affected by the flooding crisis are urged to get in touch with Manitoba Beef Producers as their first point of contact. MBP is an information clearing house about available pasture land for producers who need to evacuate cattle. It can also advise producers forced to move animals about sources to contact and procedures
Potato Growers Make Slight Gains In 2011 Contracts
Manitoba potato growers have made up a little ground in their 2011 contracts with processors, but still haven’t recovered from losses suffered last year. Growers voted April 20 to accept an offer from McCain Foods for an eight per cent price increase for 2011, said Gary Sloik, Keystone Potato Processors Association general manager. Average prices
Mass Evacuation For Cattle Near Lake Manitoba
One of the largest livestock evacuations in Manitoba history is underway in the Interlake region as cattle producers frantically try to move their herds away from rising Lake Manitoba flood waters. Producers are desperately seeking alternative temporary homes for tens of thousands of cattle displaced by unprecedented flooding around the lower Lake Manitoba basin. Manitoba
Snowstorm Adds To Flood Woes
Hundreds of cattle died in the snowstorm which swept across the province over the May 1 weekend, as the toll rises from the soggiest, coldest spring in recent memory. Animals trapped in mud, snow, and water expired in cold and wet conditions, succumbing to exposure, suffocating or dying under the hooves of other animals vainly
Wetland Drainage Increases Spring Flooding, Research Shows
It’s a long way from Broughton’s Creek in southwestern Manitoba to Lake Winnipeg smack in the middle of the province. But to Pascal Badiou there is a relationship between this tiny rivulet in Prairie pothole country and the condition of one of Canada’s largest freshwater lakes. There’s also a connection between the history of the
Small Hive Beetle Detected In Manitoba
The appearance of the small hive beetle in Manitoba has honey producers concerned about another possible addition to a growing list of destructive pests in their colonies. A live small hive beetle (SHB) was found April 7 among packaging material in a shipment of honeybee queens from Hawaii. SHB larvae have also been detected in
Dairy Officials Reject U.S. Criticism Of Supply Management
Canadian dairy officials are dismissing a U.S. industry report which claims supply management for milk does not work. The report by a U.S. dairy processors association plays fast and loose with the facts when it says supply management restricts industry growth and does not reduce price volatility, said Phil Cairns, senior policy adviser with Dairy
Manitoba Interlake ranchers face desperate situation
Updated, May 12 — Cattle producers in Manitoba’s Interlake are frantically trying to move their herds out of the Lake Manitoba region this week after receiving emergency evacuation warnings because of rising flood waters. Producers in nearly a dozen municipalities around the lower basin of Lake Manitoba have been put on evacuation alert for as
Manitoba cattle price insurance in the works
Hidden in Manitoba Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk’s 2011-12 budget is a $200,000 allocation for cattle insurance. The Manitoba government has set aside $200,000 for a livestock insurance pilot program for the province’s cattle producers. The allocation is hidden in the 2011-12 provincial budget Wowchuk brought down April 12. The Co-operator learned about it during briefings
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