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Screenshot from a U.S. NHTSA video showing a rupturing Takata airbag inflator. (Nhtsa.gov via YouTube)

Ford recalling older-model Rangers over airbag inflators

Deaths, injuries linked to faulty inflators

By GFM Network News February 19, 2021

Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. is recalling 153,000 older trucks that may have had obsolete Takata air bag modules installed in collision and theft repairs after the Takata recall was completed, the automaker said on Thursday. The second-largest U.S. automaker identified about 8,800 Ford Ranger 2004-06 trucks in Canada and 144,340 in the

Other, Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: Cold snap slowly coming to an end

Covering the period from February 17 to February 24

By Daniel Bezte February 18, 2021

The weather models did a heck of a job with last issue’s forecast as we saw the upper low drop southward into our region as predicted, bringing the sunny skies and cold, cold temperatures. Temperatures ended up being even colder than expected, but the light winds did materialize which made the cold temperatures a little

China is effectively playing the fear card. Some call it propaganda.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Food safety nationalism

China appears to be using the pandemic as a tool to make its people afraid of food imports

By Sylvain Charlebois February 17, 2021

Many are talking about vaccine nationalism these days, with concerns that some nations are involved in a race to access as many vaccines as possible. Disappointing of course, but highly predictable. Vaccines are seen by the entire western world as our collective portal towards some sort of normalcy. The World Health Organization has rightly registered

The national budget watchdog has put a price on a fuel exemption for farmers from the carbon tax.

News, Other

PBO estimates cost of expanded carbon tax exemption

Estimates are based on expected consumption over the next half-decade

By D.C. Fraser February 17, 2021

A report from Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) says the cost of exempting more farm fuels from carbon pricing will cost $235 million over the next five years. Conservative MP Philip Lawrence introduced a private member’s bill in February 2020 that would extend the exemption for qualifying farming fuel to marketable natural gas and propane,

Farmers arrive with blankets and mattresses for others at the site of a protest against farm laws at Ghaziabad, India on Jan. 29, 2021.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Why Indian farmers are so angry

The Modi government’s agricultural reforms are causing widespread uncertainty

By Bhavani Shankar February 16, 2021

India’s farmers have been protesting since the autumn, with a growing intensity that culminated in a violent breaching of barriers in the Red Fort in Delhi during India’s Republic Day celebrations on January 26. The protests were spurred by the passing of a set of agricultural reform bills in parliament in September 2020 that aimed

News, Other

Still hard for young to start farming

The same problems that have held back young farmers for decades are still there

By Allan Dawson February 16, 2021

Darren Howden often hears how hard it is for young people to get into farming. But Farm Credit Canada’s senior vice-president of Prairie operations, heard the same lament in the 1980s when he was young farmer just starting out. “And it was the same answer,” he told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ online annual meeting Jan.

Crops, Markets, Other

Cash-strapped pot producers raise billions in market rally

Cannabis firms seen as down in the weeds until recent surge

By GFM Network News February 12, 2021

Reuters — A political shift in the United States has unlocked an estimated US$1.38 billion jackpot for struggling pot producers who have cashed in on a surge in their shares since President Joe Biden’s election in November. Cannabis producers have issued stock worth this amount in the first five weeks of 2021, investment firm Viridian

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Child care a necessity

By Gord Gilmour February 11, 2021

It was the spring of 1965, and my parents had just returned to the farm after spending their first four years of marriage on a grand adventure of sorts, living, working and studying in other parts of Canada. First, they travelled to Newfoundland, where my father worked with 4-H Canada, organizing clubs in the new,

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Young farmers call for better rural childcare

Lack of care can make it hard to get work done — and presents safety hazards for kids and parents

By Geralyn Wichers February 11, 2021

Young Manitoba farmers have asked KAP to lobby for better rural access to childcare. “If I didn’t have that support from another family member then I’d be home and I couldn’t work,” said Sam Connery-Nichol, who seconded the resolution. “You can’t get a lot done with an eight-month-old wandering around, crawling,” she added. Connery-Nichol farms near Portage la Prairie with her

Other, Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: Arctic air establishes itself

Covering the period from February 10 to February 17

By Daniel Bezte February 11, 2021

Well, like most snow-producing systems so far this winter, the forecasted Colorado low never really developed last week. We did see a weak storm system move through last Thursday, bringing a light dumping of between five and eight cm of snow across a large portion of southern and central Manitoba. This storm system was then

Daily Network News

Farmers see fertilizer price surge as Iran war blocks exports, threatening losses

OPINION: How the Iran war could create a ‘fertilizer shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming

Farmers expected to boost canola area beyond Statistics Canada intentions report

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