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This example from one of the Ag in Motion fields combines an electroconductivity map, with an elevation and water map, and a topography map. Together these layers produce the SWAT map.
Crops, News

Bringing agronomy into high resolution

High-resolution agronomy is looking for the fine print in what field conditions are telling the farmer

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Producers are always looking for the best way to maximize their return on investment and the big brains of the agricultural industry are doing everything they can to make that proposition easier and easier. To that end, a growing trend in agriculture is concerned with pinpointing and targeting smaller areas of a field to more
“It (management) was very interesting, but I definitely enjoy agronomy.” – Anastasia Kubinec.
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Manitoba Agriculture manager Anastasia Kubinec joins Roquette

The veteran agronomist from MARD is looking forward to helping farmers grow peas for protein

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Producers will see a familiar name on Roquette’s staff, moving forward. Anastasia Kubinec, Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development’s (MARD) manager of crop industry development, has switched out her government credentials for a position with pea processor Roquette as an agronomist. Kubinec’s last day with the province was Sept. 4. She started her new job Sept.
This video posted on YouTube shows animal activists entering a turkey barn at the Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony on Labour Day. The protesters, who had been dropped off by buses, arrived early in the morning before workers from the colony were on site.
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Province asking people to weigh in on trespassing, biosecurity laws

The province is also considering laws to deter metal theft through more record-keeping

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The province is asking Manitobans if it should follow the other Prairie provinces in updating laws to clarify landowners’ rights on trespassers and enforcing biosecurity, as well as deterring metal theft. “I think what we need is clarity around what is trespassing and how it can be enforced,” Minister of Justice Cliff Cullen said. Why
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Feds closely watching provincial changes to trespassing laws

Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan have tightened laws on either access to private rural land or livestock transport, and Manitoba may well be following suit

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The federal government is not looking at ways to boost trespassing legislation being passed in some provinces, according to Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau. Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta have taken steps to bolster protections for livestock and producers against trespassers and activists following high-profile events, and Manitoba is believed to be soon following
Cargill’s beef plant in High River, Alta., was among those closed temporarily due to COVID-19 this year, prior to the Emergency Processing Fund being announced.
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Feds commit first $10 million to support food processors

The first funds will be flowing out of the Emergency Processing Fund promised to packers in May for upgrading COVID-19 prevention

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The first spending round of a $77.5-million fund to help food processors in the wake of COVID-19 is being rolled out by the federal government. On Sept. 4, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced 32 projects have been approved for up to $10.54 million in federal funds to help mitigate impacts of COVID-19. Money,
Combines and trucks roll north of Deerwood, Man., Aug. 26.
Crops, News

Cereal harvest nears the finish line as canola lags

Cereal harvest is creeping closer to complete, while canola and peas are still well behind three-year averages

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Harvest progress in Manitoba is still behind the three-year norm. According to the Sept. 1 provincial crop report, Manitoba’s cereal harvest is starting to wrap up. In winter cereals, winter wheat sat 95 per cent finished and fall rye topped off at 97 per cent complete. Spring wheat, meanwhile, was about half done as of
Water bound for the increasingly stressed dam at Rivers pools at Rapid City July 1.
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Province announces disaster financial assistance for three 2020 floods

Southwest and southeast saw disastrous overland flooding after heavy rains in June, July

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The province will give disaster financial assistance for victims of three high-water events this year, announced infrastructure minister Ron Schuler today. Schuler pledged over $2 million to communities in Southeastern Manitoba. Heavy rains in early June caused heavy overland flooding along the Rat River and in six southeastern municipalities. Local news outlet Steinbach Online reported
Markets, News

Less French wheat outbound of EU

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Reuters – French soft wheat shipments outside the European Union fell to a four-year low for the month of August, despite a large volume sent to China, as activity eased after a poor harvest, Refinitiv data showed. Soft wheat exports to destinations outside the EU totalled 644,000 tonnes in August, the second month of the
Much to consider after merger rejection
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Much to consider after merger rejection

Seeds Canada is likely but the seed growers’ association won’t be joining

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Canada’s seed sector has some contemplating and healing to do in the wake of seed grower association members rejecting a merger with four other seed groups, which would have formed a new, single entity called Seeds Canada. Since the other four voted strongly to merge, it’s expected Seeds Canada will go ahead, but without the
“When you get a vote like we got, then you get a clear message from your membership that’s not what they want to do.” – Jonathan Nyborg.
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Seeds Canada likely despite CSGA rejection

Seed growers’ association finds some silver linings

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Seeds Canada will likely be formed by the four seed organizations whose members voted strongly in favour of merging, said Ellen Sparry, president of the Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA). “We want to ensure the momentum keeps going,” Sparry, who is president of C & M Seeds in Palmerston, Ont., said in an interview Sept.

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