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Strategie Grains cuts EU wheat crop outlook again after dry spring

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Consultancy Strategie Grains June 11 further reduced its forecast for this year’s soft wheat harvest in the European Union, saying it expected a hot, dry spring to have hurt crops before rains resumed in June. In a monthly cereal report, the French analyst lowered its estimate of 2020 soft wheat production in the EU plus
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The worst may be behind us, ethanol industry says

The biofuels sector is inching back from collapse after COVID kept roads empty

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Reuters – The U.S. industry is showing some signs of recovery as governments ease stay-at-home orders that depressed fuel demand, while federal aid could be on the horizon for U.S. producers, industry officials said. Fuel demand collapsed by about a third with the spread of the novel coronavirus this spring, and U.S. ethanol production capacity
Manitoba producers can forget any quick relief on the business risk management file, provincial Agriculture Minister Blaine Pedersen says.
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AgriStability changes not coming any time soon, says ag-minister Pedersen

The die is set for this iteration of federal-provincial farm support programs

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Manitoba Agriculture Minister Blaine Pedersen has thrown cold water on the reforms Canadian farmers have sought for years to improve AgriStability. “We are not going there any time soon just because of the cost implications for the Prairie provinces,” he said in an interview June 11. Asked if Manitoba farmers should stop lobbying for the changes, Pedersen replied: “This will be what the
Windy weather puts the brakes on spraying
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Windy weather puts the brakes on spraying

A delayed spring left less room for pre-seed herbicide. Then the wind picked up

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High winds may have left producers with bigger weeds than they would like. Winds were enough to cause some sandblasting damage in Manitoba’s young crops in late May and early June. Weather stations in Carman reported wind gusts near or above 50 kilometres an hour in the first two weeks of June, with some days clocking gusts of
Manitoba’s pork sector continues to grapple with many questions and few answers as it navigates the ‘new normal.’
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Pork sector still facing uncertain landscape

The effects of market disruption from COVID-19 and plant closures has yet to dissipate, leaving many questions for the sector

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The hog market is starting its rebound with news that previously plugged value chains are once again starting to move — but the sector has a long climb ahead. Bill Alford, general manager of Hams Marketing, noted that U.S. processors previously shut down due to COVID-19 are once again ramping up operations, although the backlog of market-ready hogs held
Manitoba farmers say grain drying costs are significant and the carbon tax is adding insult to injury.
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According to ag-minister Bibeau, carbon tax on grain drying insignificant

"It comes back to competitiveness and what makes sense and it seems in this industry and in this country right now we are just shooting ourselves in the foot..." – Warren McCutcheon

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“Frustration.” That’s the word Bill Campbell and Warren McCutcheon both independently used to describe their reaction to federal agriculture minister Marie Claude Bibeau saying the carbon tax collected from farmers’ drying grain is so small an exemption isn’t warranted. “It’s frustrating when she asks for the data (on grain drying costs) and she won’t be
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Fifteen COVID-relief programs for farmers and their employees

A KAP seminar listed and explained the many programs designed to help farmers weather the effects of the pandemic

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Many federal and provincial programs exist to help producers pay employee wages or recoup lost income because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but with the speed those have rolled out and evolved, farmers may not know which is best for them or how to apply. “It can be a little overwhelming to keep track of that
COVID-19 made us realize that many whose jobs are too important to shut down are also the people making the least money.
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Opinion: Heroes, only for a while

The reality of low margins is seeing employers claw back wage top-ups for front-line employees

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The “hero pay” is quietly fading away in grocery stores and food distribution centres. In fact, the American-based Kroger chain, among others, even asked employees to return the extra money they received but has since backed off. Quite the reversal from 10 weeks ago. It appears higher salaries in grocery stores were short lived. It
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Kazakhstan opposes extension of Russia-led seed export ban

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Kazakhstan will oppose any extension of the agriculture export restrictions a Russia-led trade bloc has so far imposed until June 30, its Agriculture Minister Saparkhan Omarov told reporters June 3. The Eurasian Economic Union, which comprises Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan as well as Kazakhstan and Russia, restricted exports of sunflower seeds, buckwheat, rice, rye and
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Strong winds delay herbicide applications, some re-seeding in canola, soybeans seen

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for June 16

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Southwest Region Favourable weather over most of last week gave producers a chance to complete seeding and some spraying. Limited rainfall, but some isolated thunderstorms brought rain to Kola and Dand area, recording the highest amounts at 30mm and 19mm, respectively. There was isolated reports of hail and very heavy winds over the weekend in

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