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Editorial: Preparing for the unknown

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Until May 31, 1985 I really had no idea what a tornado was, or that wind could cause so much damage. Like most young children in Ontario, I was blissfully unaware – and untouched by – severe weather. Growing up in the Niagara Peninsula, until that point in my life I had only experienced bad
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
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Weather: Summer trying to establish itself

Forecast issued June 3, covering the period from June 8 to 15, 2022

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If you recall back to last week’s forecast, there was some disagreement between the two main weather models. The second weather model was the one that got our last forecast correct, which was unfortunate for us, as the sixth Colorado low in the last two months brought us more rain and cool temperatures. This low
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra
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The perils of the crystal ball 

The quagmire of uncontrolled variables puts any prediction, even expert ones, on shaky ground

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There’s a quote from professional baseball player Yogi Berra: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” It’s hard to say it better, but Dan Gardner’s book, Future babble: Why expert predictions fail — and why we believe them anyway, may just do that and a lot more.  At the essence of it, the
Sheep producers usually don’t ask if a flock is free of maedi visna when buying.
Livestock, News, Other

Maedi visna: The hidden sheep disease

What you can’t see can still be hurting your flock

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A fatal disease cost Manitoba sheep farmer Carleen Doerksen about half her flock, but she says few farmers even know the condition exists. Doerksen, who farms near Boissevain, Man., had noticed that some of her ewes couldn’t keep up when moving from pasture to pasture. They couldn’t get enough air, winding up exhausted by the
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
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Will summer be cold and wet or hot and dry?

Weather-wise, May 2022 turned out to be a sequel to April

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Once again, I am in the position of having to write the monthly weather roundup while there are several days left in the month. Due to my deadline being the Friday before you read this, I had to decide whether I should wait one more issue to take our monthly look back and then peer
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Quarry Rehab program open for applicants

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The Manitoba government is opening a third intake for the Quarry Rehabilitation on Private and Municipal Land Program the province announced May 9. Up to $2.8 million will be available for the 2022-23 program, it said in a news release. Owners of private and municipal lands with a registration certificate or private quarry permit issued
Faced with spring flooding and recent historic precipitation, Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation has extended seeding deadlines to give soybean growers some breathing room.
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New soybean seeding deadline welcomed

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Extensions to the crop insurance seeding deadlines for soybeans in Manitoba are being welcomed. The change wasn’t prompted by this year’s delay in seeding due to wet weather, but because the data supports it, Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers executive director Daryl Domitruk said. “The seeding dates (for soybeans) were set a long time ago,”
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Editor’s Take: Getting weather whiplash

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If you’re feeling weather weary these days you’re not alone. Most of the province probably shares your feelings. It was only eight or nine months ago that we were worried the rain would never come again. Then came the winter that wouldn’t go away, where it only warmed up long enough to snow, only to
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
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Weather: Summer will get here before spring gets a chance

Forecast issued May 13, covering the period from May 18 to 25, 2022

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The first part of last week’s forecast played out fairly close to what the weather models were predicting. Another Colorado low developed as forecasted and moved nearly due north from May 12 to 13, bringing with it more rain along with some thundershowers and thunderstorms. The second part of the forecast did not play out
Acre for acre, a salt marsh like this one in the Netherlands’ Western Scheldt estuary, stores five times more carbon than a forest.
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Land-building marsh plants are champions of carbon capture

Wetlands are Earth’s most efficient natural storage system for climate-warming carbon dioxide

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Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only one per cent of Earth’s surface but store more than 20 per cent of all the climate-warming carbon dioxide absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. A new study published May 6 in Science by a

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