News & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

China shows little interest in buying Canadian soybeans

Because of American trade policy Canadian soybeans are even more dependent on China

By Allan Dawson May 8, 2019

First it was canola and now it’s soybeans. China, Canada’s biggest soybean customer, has all but stopped buying Canadian soybeans, Ron Davidson, executive director of Soy Canada said in an interview May 6. “Traders have been saying China just has no interest in buying (from Canada),” Davidson said. “What I got from the traders is

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Cold, damp conditions slow field operations

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for May 7

By Manitoba Agriculture May 7, 2019

Southwest Region Very little precipitation over the last week, but some localized showers on both sides of the Trans-Canada Highway. Below normal temperatures throughout the week, with hard frosts and some snowfall. Minimum overnight temperature reached -8 C in some parts of the region. Most seeding done in southern areas, but in northern region is

Government, college staff and companies like Maple Leaf Foods were in attendance as the province announced $300,000 for Assiniboine Community College’s new animal protein-processing training centre April 26.

Livestock, Local news

Making the cut at ACC

The college’s new animal-processing centre will train students for the meat sector, ACC says

By Alexis Stockford May 7, 2019

There’s about to be a new stream of locally trained labour for the province’s meat sector. Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College (ACC) is preparing for the first crop of students at its new animal protein-processing training centre. The college is expecting about 40 graduates annually out of the centre’s first program. The 11-month class will greet

Blackpoll warblers (male top, female bottom) fly up to 10,700 km between their winter and summer homes.

Did you know?, News, Other

Back from South America for the summer

Warblers fly from Churchill to the Carolinas, then non-stop over the ocean for 2-1/2 days

By University Of Guelph May 7, 2019

University of Guelph biologists have tracked an annual migration of up to 20,000 kilometres made by the 12-gram blackpoll warbler, one of the fastest declining songbirds in North America. The bird’s trek between its breeding grounds in the central and western boreal forest of North America and its winter home in the Amazon Basin is

Local news, Other

In Your Co-operator this Week: May 9

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 6, 2019

1. Farmers grow frustrated: Some Canadian farmers, no closer to knowing when they’ll regain access to their biggest canola customer, are going from feelings of uncertainty and anxiety to anger and frustration. “We demand action,” Ian Steppler, who farms near Deerwood, Man., wrote on Facebook last week. The federal government and grain industry are committed

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, May 1, 2019.

News

Conservatives want action on the lingering canola crisis

Appoint an ambassador and increase advance payments, opposition leader, Andrew Scheer urges

By Alex Binkley May 3, 2019

It’s time for government action on the canola file, according to the leader of the opposition. Canada needs an ambassador in Beijing and should immediately increase the funds available to farmers under the Advance Payments Program (APP), says Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer. More than a month has passed since China banned imports of canola seed

Pork, peas and soybeans are now reporting trouble with shipments to China.

News, Oilseeds

Canadian farm exports run into Chinese wall

New commodities are reporting unexpected delays for importation to China

By Hallie Gu, Rod Nickel May 3, 2019

An expanding list of Canadian farm exports is hitting obstacles at Chinese ports, leaving sellers of soybeans, peas and pork scrambling amid a bitter diplomatic dispute. China has already blocked Canadian canola from Richardson International and Viterra, two of Canada’s biggest farm exporters, saying that shipments had pests. Other China-bound canola cargoes have been cancelled,

The power of pasture is among the environmental benefits the province wants to see recognized under its protein strategy.

Beef cattle, Forages, Local news

Manitoba protein strategy looks for sustainability

Profits aren’t the only kind of green the province hopes to court with its protein strategy

By Alexis Stockford May 3, 2019

Manitoba isn’t going to just produce more protein, it’s also going to do it more sustainably. That’s one of the top goals of the provincial government’s much-heralded protein strategy, unveiled for consultation earlier this winter. The question that raises, of course, is what that buzzword is going to mean in practice. Pasture potential Carbon sequestration

Crops, Local news

Manitoba Agriculture predicts near-normal canola acres

The province also expects higher corn and sunflower plantings this spring

By Allan Dawson May 2, 2019

Manitoba Agriculture expects Manitoba canola acres to remain flat or decline just slightly this spring, provincial oilseed specialist Dane Froese said in an interview April 26. That’s consistent with what Jason Voogt of Field 2 Field Agronomy Inc. is hearing. “Our clients haven’t changed their plans,” he said, despite China’s boycott of Canadian canola seed.

Ken Heaman of Agassiz Seed Farm was seeding wheat April 24 north of Roland.

Crops, Local news

Seeding started – and put on pause by snow

Although moisture is rated as adequate in most areas, a little extra won’t hurt

By Allan Dawson May 2, 2019

Bob Bartley started seeding hard red spring wheat April 23, and finished the following day after completing two quarters. Now, following a late-spring storm through much of agro-Manitoba, he’s awaiting Mother Nature and the calendar. “Now I’m going to take a holiday,” he said with a laugh April 25 during an interview. “Now that we

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA