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The challenges with moving a new technology into rural areas could create new partnerships and opportunities.
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The wired farm

Will 5G networks kick off a wave of innovation for Canada’s farms?

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Users of the Samsung Galaxy S20 phone will be the first to have access to 5G technology in Canada. Rural residents and farmers will have to wait much longer – if the technology ever arrives. Rogers announced in early March that it is rolling out 5G networks in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal, with 20
Hogs, Markets, News

China replenishes world’s biggest hog herd

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Six planes carrying more than 4,000 high-quality French breeding pigs have arrived in China so far this year, the first of an expected dozens of planeloads as the world’s top pork producer rebuilds its decimated hog herd. China is ramping up imports as it rushes to restock after an outbreak of African swine fever swept
Daryl Fransoo.
Markets, News

Wheat Growers announces Fransoo as new chair

Saskatchewan farmer will now head the organization

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Daryl Fransoo is the new chair of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers. The Glaslyn, Saskatchewan-area producer farms with his father, growing spring and soft white wheat, malt barley, canola, multiple varieties of peas and lentils, and oats. His family also owned and operated a pulse-processing and exporting business in Saskatchewan. “I am honoured to have
Almost three-quarters of farmers recently surveyed say they fear the pandemic will hurt their incomes.
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Survey says… farmers need COVID cash

As seeding looms, producers fear the pandemic will cut their income

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COVID-19 has North American farmers worried so they are asking their respective federal governments for cash. Almost three-quarters of farmers taking part in recent surveys in Saskatchewan and the United States said they fear the pandemic will hurt their incomes. “Farmers need cash to be able to get their crop in the ground this spring,
An empty flour shelf in a Steinbach grocery store.
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Pandemic both boom and bust for food industry

Hoarding, volatility of food markets force producers to adapt

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Grocery shopping just looks different now — be it the lines on the floor directing shoppers where to stand, to the safety reminders over the store PA, to the empty space where the flour used to be. For food producers, it’s also a strange new world with restaurant and food-service orders abruptly nixed and the
Janssens girls Maddie (3), Kaity (10), Lexi (6) and Hailey (3) do home work at their Boissevain-area home.
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Home education highlights gaps in rural internet

School divisions are adapting with print materials, phone calls, adjusted expectations

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Science experiments get complicated with twin toddlers running around. Kaity, 10, and her mom Heather Janssens started an experiment on evaporation — filling a cup of water and coming back periodically to mark the water level to show if it dropped. They took a break to play outside, and when they came in it looked
Canadian, Manitoba farmland values higher in 2019
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Canadian, Manitoba farmland values higher in 2019

The yearly growth has slowed in recent seasons and that trend is expected to continue

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Average Manitoba farmland values rose four per cent in 2019, just slightly higher than the 3.7 per cent increase recorded in 2018, Farm Credit Canada (FCC) says in its 2019 Farmland Values report released April 6. The biggest increase — 8.9 per cent — was in the Eastman region followed by 4.7 per cent in
A recent Farm Credit Canada report says land purchases by next-generation producers from producers exiting the industry accounted for many transactions.
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A closer look at Manitoba farmland values

Eastman region saw the highest percentage increase at 8.2 per cent

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Manitoba’s modest four per cent increase in farmland values in 2019 coincided with a mixed year for farmers. Cereal and canola yields were generally average, with lower yields for soybeans, corn and sunflowers, the Farm Credit Canada (FCC) report says. A lot of potatoes didn’t get harvested due to wet weather, some crops went unharvested, while hay, pasture and feed corn were hurt during
KAP calls for PPE donations
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KAP calls for PPE donations

COVID-19: Farmers can help with this fight by donating equipment like N95 masks

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KAP is encouraging all producers with personal protective equipment that is not required for spring work to donate to the Manitoba health system. As Manitoba’s health system continues with preparations to ensure our province is prepared to meet the needs of our patients and to ensure appropriate protection from COVID-19 is available to health-care workers,
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: COVID-19 is changing the conversation around food

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On one hand, the federal government stated the obvious when it identified the food system as one of the 10 critical infrastructures supporting Canadians during the pandemic crisis. After all, who can survive without food? Nevertheless, the guidance document issued by Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair recently sent an important signal, one

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