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VIDEO: Editor’s Take: Off the rails
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VIDEO: Editor’s Take: Off the rails

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We live in an era of the primacy of markets. In particular, regulation of markets has been deemed as undesirable, a long-term trend that began with neo-conservatism in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But Canadians are increasingly being hit in the face with examples where greater regulation is becoming a necessary evil. From price-fixing
Aerial and satellite imagery, combined with machine learning, could give large-scale soil carbon readings as robust as soil sampling.
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New path to monitor soil carbon

An eye in the sky and machine-learning methods could be as accurate as old-fashioned soil testing

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Just how much carbon is in the soil? That’s a tough question to answer at large spatial scales, but understanding soil organic carbon at regional, national or global scales could help scientists predict overall soil health, crop productivity and even worldwide carbon cycles. Classically, researchers collect soil samples in the field and haul them back
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
Other, Weather, Weather Vane

Weather: Spring moving in, albeit slowly

Forecast issued Apr. 1, covering the period from Apr. 6 to 13, 2022

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If you had to pick a time of the year that is the toughest to forecast, it would be spring. As warm air starts to build to our south and cold air continues to persist to our north, the battle between the two can make for some very tough forecasting. We saw this with the
Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: A broken system

Supply chain fragility reveals overall economic fragility of globalization

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One of the most beautiful – and inexplicable – aspects of economics is how its practitioners never seem to be wrong. Indeed, almost every school of economic thought, from John Maynard Keynes’ demand-driven economics on the left to Arthur Laffer’s supply-side economics on the right, is crowded with disciples defending their leader’s theories and just
“The low interest rate environment and favourable commodity prices seem to have offset some of the many challenges that could have been expected to restrain the demand for farmland...” – J.P. Gervais, Farm Credit Canada.
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Manitoba farmland value rises fastest in Prairie region: FCC

Demand from farmers looking to expand operations outstripping supply

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Manitoba has led the Prairie pack in a year of advancing farmland prices across Canada. A report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC), released on March 14, revealed that Manitoba saw a 9.9 per cent increase in farmland prices in 2021, the largest among the Prairie provinces, and its largest increase since 2015 (when prices rose
Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editorial: The world of unknowns

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A few years back, the world made a lot of fun of the late Donald Rumsfeld, formerly the defence secretary in the George W. Bush administration, over his comments about the war in Iraq. His statement, albeit delivered in tortured syntax that fired up the emerging mockery machine was, essentially: There are things we know.
Among projects funded by the Conservation Trust, Ducks Unlimited Canada got $750,000 toward restoring grasslands.
News, Other

The Conservation Trust pledges $2.86 million to conservation projects

The investments will make the landscape more resilient to the effects of climate change, says MHHC

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A Ducks Unlimited project to restore native grasslands; support for cattle producers to conserve grasslands; and an initiative to protect land along Lake Winnipeg are among projects funded by the Conservation Trust this year. “These funds provide new opportunities to improve wildlife, water and soil conservation across the province,” said Stephen Carlyle, chief executive officer
The amount of spring runoff this year, as always, will be highly weather-dependent.
News, Other, Weather

Province continues to predict moderate to major flooding

Snowmelt needed in both the rivers and reservoirs, and in the soil, says AAFC expert

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How Manitoba’s mounds of snow will translate to floods and soil moisture remains to be seen, but they still represent a remarkable turnaround from last year’s severe drought. “The moisture situation has improved unbelievably,” said Trevor Hadwen, an agroclimate specialist with Agriculture Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). He spoke with the Co-operator on March 15. The magnitude
The geography of the Pembina Valley at Holo Crossing makes it prime raptor-counting territory.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Spend a day at a hawk watch in the Pembina Valley

There are few places better than Holo Crossing to see raptors in migration

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With the arrival of warmer weather, it’s time for the annual spring ‘Hawk Watch’ in the Pembina Valley southwest of Morden. This region, also known as ‘Raptor Highway,’ is where birdwatchers gather each spring to watch hawks, eagles and vultures as they soar above the valley on their migration north. Avid birders count and record
Civilians who bought their own weapons take part in shooting exercises before joining the territorial defence and patrolling the city, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Lviv, Ukraine March 11, 2022.
News, Other

How Russia’s war will affect farmers, food security

Canadian grain growers can expect profits despite higher input costs, while some people will eat less

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The outcome of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is unknown, but for Ukrainians it’s already a human tragedy of suffering, death and destruction, but also brave defiance. It’s likely to get worse — not just for Ukrainians and Russians, but for many of us. “Although commodity exchanges are already in chaos, ordinary folk

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