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Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 10

Conditions as of July 6, 2015

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development July 8, 2015

Weekly Provincial Summary Crops are advancing quickly in Manitoba. The smoky, hazy conditions have not impacted crops, and may have helped buffer temperatures as well as benefited crops in the drier areas of the province. Over the weekend, areas of Manitoba saw thunderstorms with heavy rainfall, strong winds, and in some cases hail. Crop lodging

Local news

New centre for climate risk reduction on the Prairies

The centre will focus on building  community resilience

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 7, 2015

The University of Winnipeg and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) are forming a centre to identify risks and build community resilience to climate change. The Centre for Climate Risk Reduction on the Prairies will be a network offering research, advice and policy development to governments, businesses and community members on the pressing and

This cornfield north of Miami was one of many pulverized by hail June 27. More fields received hail July 4.

Crops, Local news

Another week, another hailstorm

MASC is busy processing more hail claims, severe weather damage

By Allan Dawson July 6, 2015

Thunderstorms damaged more Manitoba crops July 4 — one week after a vicious hailstorm injured or destroyed crops from Roseisle to Winkler, running roughly parallel to the Pembina Escarpment. As of July 6 the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) had received 164 hail claims on insured crops, said David Koroscil, MASC’s manager for insurance projects

Crops, Opinion

Editorial: Agri-resilience is farmers’ best defence for managing risk

By Laura Rance-Unger July 6, 2015

No one understands risk preparedness and management better than an insurance company. The iconic insurance giant Lloyd’s laid out a stark scenario recently in a report about the potential for weather-related disasters to undermine the entire global food system. The 327-year-old insurance firm says it wouldn’t take much — just three catastrophic weather events hitting

Don Flaten speaks to visitors during the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment’s 2014 field day at the Glenlea Research Station.

Crops, Local news

Glenlea Research Station opens its fields to the public on July 8

Mark your calendar to come walk the fields, check out the plots and the composting at this year’s Glenlea field day

By Shannon VanRaes July 3, 2015

Like any long-term commitment, it takes experimentation to keep things lively. Such is the case at the Glenlea Research Station, home to Canada’s oldest organic rotation study, which opens its fields to the public next week. Visitors will have the opportunity to check out some of the new and existing research being done at Glenlea

MAFRD’s Anastasia Kubinec says the Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School gives agronomists hands-on training.

Crops, Local news

Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School focuses on topics important to agronomists

July 17 is set aside for farmers only to attend with a reduced registration fee

By Allan Dawson July 3, 2015

This year’s Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School is expected to sell out — again. As of last week there were still some openings July 16 and for farmers only — July 17, said Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD). “We’re pretty much sold out,” she said in an interview June 25. “I

Crops, Local news

Manitoba crop insect and disease update

Conditions as of June 30, 2015

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development July 2, 2015

Summary Scout cereal crops for rusts, and consider whether fusarium is a risk. Insects noted in cereal crops include armyworms and cereal leaf beetle, although not at economic levels. Insect populations are currently light in canola and oilseed crops. Some higher levels of alfalfa weevil are still present in the Interlake. Read the full report on the

Monsanto’s new glyphosate- and dicamba-tolerant Roundup Ready Xtend soybeans offer improved weed control, including some residual control, potentially higher yields and can help slow the onset of glyphosate-resistant weeds, says Dekalb’s Bruce Murray. Seed is being multiplied now for a commercial launch in 2016 pending their acceptance in China.

News, Oilseeds

Monsanto rolls out ‘Xtend’ glyphosate-dicamba-tolerant soybeans

Manitoba farmers could be planting these dual-stacked  GM soybeans as early as next spring

By Allan Dawson July 2, 2015

Monsanto’s new glyphosate- and dicamba-tolerant “Xtend” soybeans will give farmers better weed control, higher yields and delay the onset of glyphosate-resistant weeds, company officials told agronomists and reporters here June 23. And if China approves their import, North American farmers, including in Manitoba, will be planting Xtend soybeans next spring, said Pat Comte, Monsanto’s strategic

Dairy cattle, National news, Poultry

Trans-Pacific Partnership talks worry dairy farmers

Foreign supplies want access to Canadian markets

By David Ljunggren July 2, 2015

Canada’s powerful dairy industry expressed concern June 26 that it could suffer if talks to create a Pacific trade treaty open up heavily protected Canadian markets to more foreign competition. Some of the 12 nations taking part in negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) want Canada to start dismantling supply management, which protects dairy, egg

Crops, Local news, Weather

VIDEO: Corn, soybean crops decimated by weekend hailstorm

By Allan Dawson June 30, 2015

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson takes a close look at two fields near Roseisle and Miami, Man., and witnesses the devastating results of a vicious storm that struck the area on the afternoon of June 27.

Daily Network News

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News & Opinion

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 10

New centre for climate risk reduction on the Prairies

Another week, another hailstorm

Editorial: Agri-resilience is farmers’ best defence for managing risk

Glenlea Research Station opens its fields to the public on July 8

Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School focuses on topics important to agronomists

Manitoba crop insect and disease update

Monsanto rolls out ‘Xtend’ glyphosate-dicamba-tolerant soybeans

Trans-Pacific Partnership talks worry dairy farmers

VIDEO: Corn, soybean crops decimated by weekend hailstorm

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