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Chinese soy buyers see future import ceiling
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Chinese soy buyers see future import ceiling

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Reuters – Chinese soybean buyers attending a large U.S. soy export conference believe imports for 2023 will be a bit larger than some projections, but they don’t see import volumes growing much more in the coming years.  Sun Lige, vice-president of China’s Wellhope Foods Company Ltd., said on the sidelines of the Soy Connext conference
One of eight billboards placed on busy Winnipeg streets as part of a Winnipeg Humane Society campaign criticizing the treatment of pigs.
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WHS campaign targets Manitoba hog industry

Group says the billboard campaign is meant to spur discussion ahead of the election; industry says its off the mark

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A new Winnipeg Humane Society billboard campaign takes aim at Manitoba’s pork industry. Eight billboards have gone up around Manitoba’s most populous city, all carrying various warning messages about pig welfare on farms and during transportation in the province. “Our goal is to educate consumers on the various animal welfare red flags that are associated
The swinging bridge is a more recent addition to the facilities at Eternal Springs.
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Hidden attraction worth the hunt

A revived Eternal Springs recreational area is tough to find but a great destination

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If you live in western Manitoba or are driving through that region, take a short side trip to Eternal Springs, located in a wooded, almost-hidden ravine several kilometres north of Oak Lake. Plan a picnic or a hike or take fishing gear. This spot was first developed as a recreational area in the early 1970s
Livestock, News

Activists pressure against JBS listing

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A coalition of environmental groups is pushing U.S. securities regulators to thwart JBS SA’s New York share listing over concerns about the meatpacker’s impact on deforestation, climate change and other issues.  The Brazilian company, the world’s largest meat processor, hopes a U.S. listing will attract a broader investor base to give it more access to
Master distiller Jason Kang (right) of Capital K Distillery stands with partner and production manager Matt Patterson at their Winnipeg location.
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Craft liquor sector gets creative in strike aftermath

How small-scale manufacturers turned the Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries strike to their advantage

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Manitoba craft breweries and distilleries found new ways to reach their customers during this summer’s liquor strike. It’s been a tough summer for many local alcoholic beverage manufacturers, who lost one of their most important distributors through what is traditionally one of the busier seasons when Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries workers went to the picket
“…we will continue to work closely with provinces to get producers the additional support they need as quickly as possible.” – Lawrence MacAulay, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister.
Livestock, News

Nineteen municipalities named for livestock tax deferral

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced the initial list of areas eligible for the 2023 tax break Aug. 21

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Western Canada’s continued drought issues this year led the federal government to jumpstart identification of areas where producers can get in on the livestock tax deferral provision — including a chunk of south-central Manitoba. Why it matters: Much of central Manitoba had less than 60 per cent of normal rainfall for the growing season as
Mapping the changes behind Manitoba’s decades-long hog boom.
Hogs, News

For its size, Manitoba’s pork sector is an overachiever. Here’s how it happened

How NAFTA, the end of the Crow Rate and the end of single-desk marketing shaped the sector, and what got lost along the way

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Ian Smith’s hog farm hasn’t changed much since his family began raising pigs in the late 1960s. It has no pit system. Smith scrapes the pens and spreads straw twice a day. His 10 to 15 sows spend time outside. On his 160 acres near Argyle in Manitoba’s Interlake, he raises his own barley and
Bt-resistant European corn borer on a corn plant in Nova Scotia in 2018.
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Bt-resistant corn borer concern grows

Critical tools for controlling corn borer could be lost

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Glacier FarmMedia – Bt-resistant populations of European corn borer pose a significant risk to Canadian crop producers. With multiple resistance uncovered, it’s possible Bt-based control technologies will cease to work for the problem pest. Older and more environmentally costly methods of pest control – including repeated in-season insecticide applications – might make a comeback as a result.
Scenes from the Ukrainian corn harvest. This year farmers are struggling to justify the cost of harvesting due to the war and lack of markets.
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From Ukraine: The second summer of war

FIRST PERSON | As harvest begins, farmers wonder if they should bother

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A kamikaze drone flew over our house last night. It fell near our fence and exploded. I looked out the window and saw a red flame. Then I opened my eyes and realized it was a nightmare. In the morning, I called my mother. She said she heard a drone over our town at 3 a.m. These soulless killing
Prairie Clean Energy says it’s turning nuisance flax straw into pellets for horse bedding at a Gilbert Plains facility.
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Saskatchewan company to buy flax straw in Gilbert Plains area

Prairie Clean Energy to pelletize flax straw for animal bedding

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A Saskatchewan biomass company says it is buying flax straw in the Gilbert Plains area this fall for use in pellets. Prairie Clean Energy, a Regina-based company, has leased time in a Gilbert Plains plant for its initial commercial run of flax pellets, it said in an announcement posted to the Canadian Biomass website. The

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