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Comment: Ocean current collapse spells far-flung climate trouble

The end result could be a near-permanent La Niña-like condition around the world

By Andréa S. Taschetto, Bryam Orihuela-Pinto, Matthew England June 21, 2022

Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that bring warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published recently in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely. We found the collapse of this system – called the

The oil market was largely unimpressed by the OPEC+ recent promise of higher output.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Talk doesn’t equal oil production action

OPEC+ words contrast with Saudi action of raising oil prices

By Clyde Russell June 20, 2022

Reuters – The gap between what is said in crude oil markets and what actually happens in the physical trading world has been illustrated by a commitment by the OPEC+ group to boost output being followed by its top member, Saudi Arabia, raising prices. Producer group OPEC+ said after meeting in early June it would

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: End of an era

By Gord Gilmour June 16, 2022

A very strange thing happened this week, as we put this edition of the Co-operator together. You can see it yourself, on our featured article at Farmit Manitoba. It’s the very last story that Allan Dawson will publish in these pages as a staff reporter. I say strange because most of us can’t quite imagine

Other, Weather, Weather Vane

Weather: Typical early-summer conditions ahead

Forecast issued June 10, covering the period from June 15 to 22, 2022

By Daniel Bezte June 16, 2022

Surprise, surprise, surprise — the weather models did a pretty good job with last week’s forecast. We saw slowly warming temperatures with the chance of showers or thunderstorms over the weekend and into the early part of this week. The main question now is whether the dry weather will continue — or will we see

Other, Weather, Weather Vane

A math lesson on near-record spring precipitation

The skies emptied several million Olympic swimming pools into Manitoba

By Daniel Bezte June 14, 2022

If you read my last weather article, I gave May’s weather statistics a couple of days early hoping that the potential Colorado low was going to either miss us or only bring a little bit of rain. Well, was I wrong! Again. That low brought upward of 80 mm of rain to some areas of

Pickup trucks roll out of General Motors’ assembly plant at Oshawa, Ont. (Media.gm.ca)

Livestock, Markets, Other

GM CEO says ‘we are selling every truck we can build’

Rising fuel prices not seen undermining big truck demand, yet

By GFM Network News, Joseph White June 14, 2022

Detroit | Reuters — General Motors CEO Mary Barra said on Monday the automaker is “selling every truck we can build” and expanding North American truck-building capacity, even as U.S. gasoline prices hit record highs. Barra made her comments during the automaker’s annual shareholder meeting. GM is pursuing a two-track strategy: Investing heavily in electric

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: China’s population is about to shrink

By Xiujian Peng June 13, 2022

The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink. China accounts for more than one-sixth of the world’s population. Yet after four extraordinary decades in which China’s population swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since the great famine of 1959-61. According

Ryan Boyd of Glanton was a 2019 Nuffield Scholar.

News, Other

‘Continuous learning’ Nuffield Scholarship open for applicants

The $15,000 scholarship sends recipients on 10 weeks of self-directed international learning

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 13, 2022

A scholarship program that sends people around the world to learn about food and agriculture is open for applications. “Mid-career Canadians with a passion for agriculture” are invited to apply for the program, which is designed to develop leaders and influences in agriculture, Nuffield Canada said in a May 9 news release. Nuffield Canada’s mandate

The museum features buildings representative of several eras and a typical early Prairie town main street.

Farmit Manitoba, Other

A touch of history, close to home

Portage la Prairie’s Fort la Reine Museum gives a window to earlier times in the region

By Donna Gamache June 10, 2022

With museums now beginning to reopen, I decided this was the time for a long-planned visit to the Fort la Reine Museum in Portage la Prairie. Although only half an hour away from my home, this was my first visit and I certainly recommend it for anyone interested in Manitoba’s history. Fort la Reine Museum,

News, Other

‘Indigenous Voices – Sharing our Agricultural History and Journey’

Film traces the journey of three Indigenous Diploma of Agriculture students

By Don Norman June 9, 2022

In 1975, a program called the Manitoba Indian Agriculture Program (MIAP), funded by the Department of Indian Affairs, was established to boost agricultural output in Manitoba First Nations communities. At the time, agriculture was an important way of life for many Indigenous Manitobans. However, because they didn’t have access to the resources and finances available

Daily Network News

Bayer’s proposed Roundup settlement faces first signs of pushback in court

CBOT Weekly: Several unknowns that could affect commodity prices

Incoming Canadian Cattle Association CEO embraces winds of change

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