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National Grain Week kicks off

Grain Growers of Canada organized the event, the first of its kind in Canada

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Grain growers from across the country are blitzing Ottawa this week to celebrate the inaugural National Grain Week from April 17 to 19. In particular they’re promoting the ways farmers are using innovation to meet the federal government’s stated goal of increasing agri-food exports to $75 billion by 2025, event organizer Grain Growers of Canada
A close-up of a lower stem lesion on soybean caused by phytophthora.
Crops, Local news

Phytophthora a growing risk to soybeans

The once-rare infection is now the No. 2 cause of soybean root rot in Manitoba

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The threat of phytophthora is on the rise in Manitoba. Results from a 2017 disease survey show it’s becoming common enough soybean growers will need to keep it top of mind as they plan their rotations this year. About 35 per cent of tested soybean crops in Manitoba were positive for phytophthora, although fusarium was
This unassuming vine from Australia has given soybean yields a boost, researchers say.  PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Did you know?, News

Wild vine boosts soybean yield

Researchers were looking for resistance genes and found a yield boost too

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A distant relative to soybean that’s native to Australia could soon lead to a big jump in soybean yields. The perennial vine, known as woolly glycine, or scientifically as Glycine tomentella, is a genetic resource that was part of a new study from researchers at the University of Illinois. “We saw yield increases of 3.5
Ron Davidson of Soy Canada says Canadian soybean farmers could get side-swiped if the Chinese impose import tariffs on American soybeans in retaliation to $150 billion in proposed American tariffs on Chinese imports.
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U.S.-China trade war puts Canadian soybean farmers at risk

We might sell more soybeans to China, but lower American prices for seed, oil and meal would likely depress prices here too

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Ron Davidson isn’t exactly sure what impact Chinese tariffs on imported American soybeans will have on Canada’s soybean market, but it’s unlikely to be good. “It just puts uncertainty into the market, and for Canada a lot of risk, because it’s next door and if they (U.S.) can’t send their soybeans abroad (to China) a place to
Workers transport imported soybeans at a port in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China April 4, 2018. U.S. farmers worry they’ll be shut out of a major market due to a brewing trade war.
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China tariffs on soy, sorghum spread fear in U.S. farm country

Farmers say a list of crops facing tariffs has them rattled and worried for their future

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China aimed a direct strike at America’s heartland on April 4, moving to slap an aggressive 25 per cent retaliatory tariff against U.S. soybeans, farm country’s most valuable export to China last year, worth US$12 billion. Over the past decade, fast-rising demand from China has fuelled a sharp rise in production of U.S. soybeans, which
Guy Baudry, (l to r) HyLife Foods division chief operating officer, HyLife executive chief operating officer Denis Vielfaure, local MP Robert Sopuck, Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler, HyLife president Claude Vielfaure, Neepawa Mayor Adrian de Groot, company board chair Don Janzen and CEO Grant Lazaruk cut the ribbon at the newly expanded HyLife Foods plant in Neepawa.
Hogs, Local news

HyLife Foods wraps expansion

It’s been two years coming, but the new cut floor is ready to go at HyLife Foods in Neepawa

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More pork will be running through HyLife Foods in Neepawa in the near future. The company has completed two years’ worth of upgrades, HyLife announced April 3, a move that HyLife president Claude Vielfaure says will lengthen their product’s shelf life and quality as well as doubling space on the cut floor. “An example of
“If they get less money, there’s disruption in the marketplace, our producers will automatically get less money.” – Andrew Dickson, Manitoba Pork Council general manager.
Hogs, News

Manitoba Pork worries after Chinese tariffs against U.S.

Canadian pork will not suffer the same Chinese tariff hikes as the U.S., but those tariffs will still be felt locally, experts warn

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Manitoba’s pork producers may not know the exact impact from China’s tariffs against the United States, but they know it’s coming. The U.S. pork sector has been caught up in the latest round of trade volleys between the United States and China. The Chinese government announced a sweep of tariffs April 1, blaming new U.S. tariffs against
The federal and provincial agriculture ministers, Ralph Eichler (l) and Lawrence MacAuley, signed a new five-year bilateral agriculture agreement last week in Winnipeg.
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Province signs five-year agreement worth $176 million

The cost-shared initiative will be consolidated into one program and called Ag Action Manitoba

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Funding will begin to flow right away from the new bilateral five-year $176-million agreement signed between Manitoba and the federal government last week, Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler says. This is the Canadian Agri­cultural Partnership (CAP), part of an overall $3-billion federal program supporting cost-shared initiatives delivered by the provinces and territories, to be consolidated
CN Rail is making a very public apology for poor grain service this past winter.
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CN apologizes to grain industry for poor performance

The railway says there’s no excuse for what happened this past winter

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CN Rail is making a very public apology to the grain industry. The company admits it didn’t move as much grain as it agreed to earlier this crop year, and is apologizing profusely for it and pledging to do better. And to show it’s serious dismissed its chief executive officer and appointed its chief marketing
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CN rejects Senate’s Bill C-49 amendments

CP Rail also wants the original 
legislation made into law

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A senior CN Rail executive says the original Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, passed by the House of Commons, without Senate’s amendments, needs to become law quickly. “It’s a balanced bill (without the Senate amendments),” Sean Finn, CN Rail’s executive vice-president of corporate services and chief legal officer, said in an interview April 4.

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