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Rural municipalities ‘grinding to a halt’ in face of pandemic
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Rural municipalities ‘grinding to a halt’ in face of pandemic

COVID-19: Community centres and offices go dark in effort to protect residents

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Rural municipal leaders are rethinking how they govern and provide essential services in an era of social distancing due to COVID-19. It’s “hurry up and wait to get everything in place,” said West Interlake Reeve Art Jonasson. The RM of West Interlake has closed its office to the public, though staff will continue to work,
Pork processors are grappling with social distancing and employees who are suddenly without childcare.
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Pork sector looks for coronavirus answers

COVID-19: The pork sector’s labour- and human-intensive production system has added an extra challenge to maintaining the value chain

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Andrew Dickson has had a busy few days. The general manager for the Manitoba Pork Council, Dickson has been on the phone, both dealing with his own organization’s steps towards social distancing and trying to deal with the looming concerns of the pork industry in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. For an industry like
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Portage Coronavirus testing site announced

COVID-19: Three more cases of the virus outside Winnipeg announced

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A dedicated Coronavirus testing site will open in Portage la Prairie “in the next few days,” provincial health officials announced March 25. Additional sites will open in the Prairie Mountain and Interlake-Eastern health regions soon, said Lanette Siragusa, chief nursing officer with Shared Health. The twelfth testing site opening in Winkler on March 25, joining
“This is not in the interests of Canadian farmers, thus contrary to the CGC mandate,” says the NFU.
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CUSMA grain act changes stir controversy

The NFU says the amendments should be on hold until the public can weigh in on the grain act review

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Changes are coming to the Canada Grain Act to comply with NAFTA 2.0 — and that’s sparking concern in some quarters. Stewart Wells, former National Farmers Union president and current second vice-president of the group, says the proposed legislation (Bill C-4) inserts unnecessary clauses, and is being rushed through just weeks before planned public consultations
World soybean stocks to swell
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World soybean stocks to swell

Revision comes as Brazil, Argentina harvest prospects rise

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Global soybean supplies will be bigger than previously forecast due to increased harvest expectations in Brazil and Argentina, the U.S. government said March 10. World soybean ending stocks for the 2019-20 marketing year were pegged at 102.44 million tonnes, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. That compares with
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Coronavirus testing site to open in Winkler 

COVID-19: Testing is by referral only, as widespread testing is not possible at this time  

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A community testing site for COVID-19 will open in Winkler March 25.  The drive-through testing location will be at the Winkler Centennial Arena, 600 Park Street and will be open daily from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M.  This is the twelfth testing site to open in the province. Tests are only by referral.   Due to
(Left to right) Keenan Wiebe and Mitch Rezansoff ran through the process of “whiteboard- ing” — analyzing a farm’s operations for inefficiencies.
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Young farmers told to take a manufacturing mindset

Two speakers at the recent Manitoba Young Farmers conference demonstrated how to analyze data to find money-saving efficiencies

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Young farmers were urged to take a manufacturer’s mindset at a recent conference. “Some people find that offensive. Don’t look at it that way,” Mitch Rezansoff said. “It’s just managing the farm the way any other business would. It’s knowing the cost of your production intimately.” Rezansoff, executive director of CAAR, demonstrated a “whiteboarding” exercise
The Steppler family has made a name for themselves from their Charolais operation near Miami.
Livestock, News

Steppler family named Manitoba Outstanding Young Farmers 2020

Andre and Katie Steppler will be the next Manitoba farmers bound for a chance at the national competition after taking the regional award this month

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Charolais breeders and 2020 Manitoba Outstanding Young Farmers Andre and Katie Steppler run a much different operation than they did in 2007. That’s when they took over the cattle portion of Steppler Farms near Miami. In terms of sheer numbers, the Steppler herd has grown. In 2007, the couple took on less than 100 purebred
The Canada, U.S. border crossing in Emerson, Man.
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Canada, U.S. aim for border balancing act

COVID-19 shuts down non-essential traffic between Canada and the U.S. but not trade

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Farmers on both sides of the Canada-United States border still have access to their best market — each other. That’s despite a two-way temporary ban on non-essential travel to slow the spread of COVID-19, which was expected to be implemented by March 20. In 2018 Canada was the U.S.’s largest agricultural export customer purchasing $25
Grain elevator companies set COVID-19 protocols
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Grain elevator companies set COVID-19 protocols

Goal is to keep people safe and grain flowing

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If there ever was a sector that could operate during a pandemic, it’s grain. The Prairies are famous for wide open spaces, so with some planning and forethought farmers, truckers, grain companies, railways and terminal operators can keep moving Canadian grain to market, safely, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. “We don’t anticipate any issues to be

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