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The average increase in value of cultivated Canadian farmland was 11.5 per cent in 2023, and there is clear evidence that the cost of owning land in some areas now outstrips its income generation ability.

Opinion: Diversity may buffer risk of farmland buys

Should farmers consider ecological diversity as a risk management tool?

By Brenda Schoepp May 8, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – It’s the time of year that farmland often changes hands. This spring, there is an increase of sales in certain sectors, driven by land stress and owners’ inability to weather another financial or literal storm. Many of these properties are monocultures or singularly focused production units and highly dependent on one source

Keefer Terminal (foreground) at the Port of Thunder Bay. (PortOfThunderBay.ca)

Markets, News

Thunder Bay grain shipments up to start season

By Marketsfarm May 8, 2024

Grain shipments out of the Port of Thunder Bay are running well ahead of average through the first few weeks of the 2024 shipping season.

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China approves first gene-edited wheat in step to open up GM tech to food crops

By Mei Mei Chu, Reuters May 8, 2024

China has approved the safety of gene-edited wheat for the first time as Beijing cautiously moves forward with commercial growing of genetically modified food crops.

A view shows a corn field damaged by the floods in Colinas, in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 6, 2024. REUTERS/Diego Vara

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Brazil floods hit food silos, disrupt routes to major grains port

By Ana Mano, Reuters, Roberto Samora May 7, 2024

Heavy flooding in southern Brazil has hit food storage facilities in lower areas while hampering the shipping of grains to port, jeopardizing the nation's exports and wreaking havoc to the economy of Rio Grande do Sul state, a large soy, rice, wheat and meat producer.

Provincial seeding progress is about four per cent complete and slightly behind the 5-Year average of nine per cent for week 18.

Crop Report, Crops, News

Seeding progress delayed by recent rainfall

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 2 (week 18)

By Manitoba Agriculture May 7, 2024

Seeding progress across the province has been delayed with recent rains and currently sits at approximately 4 per cent of the acres being seeded. Producers have begun seeding spring wheat, barley, oats, and corn. The Central region is most advanced with approximately 12 per cent of each of the major cereals planted. Weeds are quickly

Mike Buis says high land cost and lack of pasture prodded him to look for affordable alternative feed sources.

Livestock, News

Film spotlights feedlot solution to food waste

Cattle industry documentary pitches rumination as great food waste upcycler

By Diana Martin May 7, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – Canada wastes about half the food it produces, but cattle can convert that waste into protein production. That’s the message in the latest documentary from the Canadian Cattle Association, which focuses on feedlots and their role in recycling food waste. Why it matters: Food waste takes up space in landfills and its

Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers program president Danny Penner (left) poses with Marcus and Paige Dueck and their children Sutton (lower right) and Brielle (being held by her mother).

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Kleefeld couple named Manitoba’s Outstanding Young Farmers

Dairy, grain and forage farmers, Paige and Marcus Dueck, named Manitoba 2024 Outstanding Young Farmers

By Don Norman May 7, 2024

Marcus and Paige Dueck of Four Oak Farms near Kleefeld are Manitoba’s newest Outstanding Young Farmers. The eastern Manitoba couple was named the 2024 recipients of the award in March. “It is a great honour. You get into a spot in life where you just focus on what you want to do and what’s coming

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Products removed from high-risk agrochemical list

Keep it Clean drops two products from its list of market risks

By Don Norman May 7, 2024

A 2024 product advisory from Keep it Clean is missing two names previously featured on a list of high-risk crop protection products. Keep it Clean is a joint initiative of the Canola Council of Canada, Cereals Canada, Pulse Canada and the Prairie Oat Growers Association. The group releases an annual product advisory with information on

Markets, News

Tyson Foods shares sink on worries over consumer demand, third quarter

By Granth Vanaik, Tom Polansek May 6, 2024

Reuters – Tyson Foods TSN.N shares were on track for their worst one-day decline in a year on Monday after the U.S. meatpacker warned that consumers are under pressure from persistent inflation and high commodity costs could weigh on upcoming results. The Arkansas-based meatpacker reported second-quarter sales that fell short of analysts’ estimates, though profits

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France revamps pesticide reduction plan in wake of farmer unrest

By Gus Trompiz, Sybille De La Hamaide May 6, 2024

Paris | Reuters – France unveiled on Monday a revised plan to halve pesticide use in the European Union’s biggest agricultural producer, pledging to adopt an EU indicator and boost research into alternatives in a nod to grievances voiced in farmer protests this year. Why it’s important Environmental regulation was one of the main factors

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India, Japan canola crops to be steady in 2026/27 – USDA

ICE Weekly: Trade waits for canola to break out

Advance Payments Program interest free limit set at $250,000 for 2026

News & Opinion

Opinion: Diversity may buffer risk of farmland buys

Thunder Bay grain shipments up to start season

China approves first gene-edited wheat in step to open up GM tech to food crops

Brazil floods hit food silos, disrupt routes to major grains port

Seeding progress delayed by recent rainfall

Film spotlights feedlot solution to food waste

Kleefeld couple named Manitoba’s Outstanding Young Farmers

Products removed from high-risk agrochemical list

Tyson Foods shares sink on worries over consumer demand, third quarter

France revamps pesticide reduction plan in wake of farmer unrest

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