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‘Containergeddon’: Supply crisis drives Walmart, rivals to hire own ships

Bulk grain ships pressed into container service

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Los Angeles | Reuters — The Flying Buttress once glided across the oceans carrying vital commodities such as grain to all corners of the world. Now it bears a different treasure: Paw Patrol Movie Towers, Batmobile Transformers and Baby Alive Lulu Achoo dolls. The dry bulk cargo ship has been drafted into the service of
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Editor’s Take: A closer mirror

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A few years back I stumbled across the work of the late Barbara Tuchman, a historian who wrote bestselling books about everything from the events leading to the First World War to the folly of governments pursuing policies that were actually contrary to their own interests. The book that initially captured my interest was A
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
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Weather: Summer keeps trying to hang on

Forecast covering the period from Oct. 6 to Oct. 13

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Last week’s forecast came about as close as you can to nailing it. We saw plenty of sunshine and warm to record-breaking-warm temperatures. The only parts that were off were the showers and thundershowers that impacted west-central Manitoba instead of eastern regions and the extended forecast that called for colder weather over the Thanksgiving long
Kirby Gray of Elkhorn came up a little short on a breakaway roping run.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

MHSRA welcoming fifth graders to its membership

Boys and girls in this grade will be able to compete in any of the Junior High (JH) Division events

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A younger age group is joining the youth rodeo family, with fifth graders being admitted for the first time. The National High School Rodeo Association (NHSRA), along with its affiliates including Manitoba will be welcoming the younger students to the Junior High Division as the 2021-22 competition dawns.  The change in age was brought forth
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Other, Weather

A deeper dive into the summer weather of 2021

The total rainfall received in the Brandon region shouldn’t come as a surprise

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Well, it took me a bit longer than expected to go through all the weather data for the summer, and to tell the truth, I could possibly dig into a few more details, but sometimes you have to know when to stop researching and publish what you found. The hardest part, besides spending all the
Market undercurrents in the food sector may be harder to pick up now than five or 10 years ago.
Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Lowballing food inflation

Evidence is mounting that StatCan may not be reflecting reality

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If you think food prices are increasing at a much faster pace than what Statistics Canada is suggesting, you are likely not imagining it. For a few years now, many Canadians suspected that the federal agency was either underestimating our food inflation rate, or that there was some sort of lag between what was going
Historical examples show that hyperinflation is a near-perfect storm of political, social and economic factors.
Currency markets, Markets, Other

Hyperinflation requires certain triggers

Inflation is more common and easier to plan and invest for

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There’s been a lot of talk about inflation and even hyperinflation lately. So in a last of a series on inflation, money supply and interest rates, I thought it would be a good idea to see what happened during the infamous hyperinflation of the 1920s German Weimar Republic. And, to see if similar conditions could
Hackers are a growing headache for the agriculture sector.
News, Other

Cybersecurity incident takes down Iowa farm services firm

Biden administration is making these threats a high priority

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Reuters – Iowa-based farm services provider NEW Cooperative Inc. said on Sept. 20 its systems were offline to contain a “cybersecurity” incident just as the U.S. Farm Belt gears up for harvest. The co-operative operates grain storage elevators in the top U.S. corn-producing state, buys crops from farmers, sells fertilizer and other chemicals needed to
A side view of Trimble’s EZ-Pilot Pro guidance system mounted on a tractor’s steering column. (Agriculture.trimble.com)
Crops, Other

Trimble dealer shores up cross-Canada coverage

Vantage Canada picks up Ontario rights

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The company handling sales and service for Trimble precision ag technology across most of Canada has reached a deal to handle the rest of it. Vantage Canada announced Friday it has bought the Trimble dealership rights and assets for Ontario from Premier Equipment, a John Deere dealership chain with nine locations in the province’s southern

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