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Increasingly extreme weather, such as droughts and floods, is damaging crops around the world, making it more important than ever before to understand how plants grow.
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Comment: Plants have got the beat

Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why, but finding out could change the way we grow things

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As a farmer, you probably think about plant roots more than most. Even so, they can be easy to overlook. They’re hidden underground, after all. Yet they’re continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your fields, where plants use invisible mechanisms for their never-ending growth. Scientists discovered about 15 years ago
After Earth just experienced its hottest year on record, it may seem surprising to set so many cold records.
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Extreme cold still happens in a warming world

Climate instability may in fact be disrupting the polar vortex this winter

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Earlier this month, extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather have swept southward, breaking daily low-temperature records. These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream — the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary between Arctic and more temperate air — dips deeply southward, bringing the cold Arctic air
Editor’s Take: In praise of boredom
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Editor’s Take: In praise of boredom

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It would be fair to describe the tone of farmers at this year’s Ag Days as ‘cautiously optimistic.’ Crop prices are down — but not out. And input prices are a mixed bag, according to analysts speaking at the event. They’re expecting urea prices to stay strong over the winter and into spring, but ammonia
Ranchers reliant on Crown land know exactly what leaseholders were promised and when they were promised it.
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Editorial: Much ado about nothing

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The Co-operator’s late 2023 interview with Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn included a carrot for forage Crown land leaseholders. He said there would be new announcements in the New Year. On Jan. 2, a press release arrived in media inboxes. Crown land changes were now in effect, it said, including that: Producers “felt abandoned by
The Crown lands file has gone through two elections, three premiers, four agriculture ministers, and a flood of criticism from opposition parties and farmers.
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Agricultural Crown lands: The chronicles continue

Unpacking 2023’s ACL rollercoaster ride

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The last time I interviewed Carson Callum, general manager of the Manitoba Beef Producers, it was late November. I signed off with something like, “Thanks, Carson. I’m sure we’ll talk again soon.” It’s a bit of a throwaway line, one I might say to any spokesperson after an interview, but his response made me chuckle.
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Comment: Looking for traction

This year had a lot of agriculture searching for normal

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In early November, I put on boots with the heaviest traction I could find, opened the door and attempted to strike out for a walk with the family dog. Manitoba had just been blasted with an early shot of winter and, although it would all soon disappear, the entire landscape at the time was glazed
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Comment: Non-AI doggerel

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The tree is took down and the sugar-free shortbread’s all eaten.That means that it’s time for the next New Year’s greetin’,And in doggerel (bad verses) to take a moment’s reflection,Plus make fearless predictions of farming’s future direction. Now given their druthers, farmers have usually thunk,That the ideal would be land in one contiguous chunk.But last
While talking with farmers and experts and reading far more than anyone ought to during the year, reporters come across many odd stories. Here are a few of them from 2023.
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Stories that didn’t make it into the paper

What to do with a badger in a box and how to license your steam tractor

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While talking with farmers and experts and reading far more than anyone ought to during the year, reporters come across many odd stories. They’re funny and make good anecdotes at Sunday dinner but, due to either lack of time or lack of relevancy, they don’t make it into print. As a great fan of the
The LCEF aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition the province from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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Comment: Agricultural soils are enormous carbon sink

Research shows combining a handful of techniques gives best results

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It’s right under our feet. We barely notice as we go about our lives, yet it is nothing less than the largest carbon repository among all of Earth’s ecosystems. This distinction is awarded neither to forests nor to the atmosphere, but to our soils. There are around 2,400 billion tons of carbon in the first two
Resistant bacteria can evolve anywhere. Even if some countries manage to control the problem within their borders, the risk remains.
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Comment: Antimicrobial resistance fight can’t be limited by borders

It’s great that countries like Canada have a plan, but that’s not enough against a global threat

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Antimicrobial resistance is one of the World Health Organization’s most urgent health challenges for the next decade, and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at particular risk. Misuse of antimicrobials worldwide has accelerated the evolution of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). For instance, as much as 80 per cent of total consumption is used in livestock to

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