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Childcare deal holds promise for farm families: KAP
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Childcare deal holds promise for farm families: KAP

A bilateral deal with the federal government will bring $10-per-day care and 23,000 more spots to Manitoba, the province says

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A new federal-provincial deal for childcare shows promise for rural and farming families, says KAP. “There’s a lot of good news all around,” said Graham Schellenberg, communications and government relations co-ordinator with Keystone Agricultural Producers. “In terms of rural families, there’s really a good impact here from what we see,” he added. On August 9,
The Canadian Drought Monitor map for 2021. (see below for maps from 1961 and 1988)
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A long dry cycle

The current drought crisis has been building for several years and costs are compounding

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As farmers settled in for the winter late last fall, agrometeorologists were already looking ahead with worry to the 2021 growing season. After a pair of dry years, the typical fall recharge of ground moisture had failed to materialize, and they realized that the stage was being set for a major challenge the following year.
An Asian giant hornet, trapped at Birch Bay, Wash. on July 14, 2020 by Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) researchers, is seen at Olympia, Wash. on July 29, 2020. (Photo: WSDA/Chris Looney/handout via Reuters)
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U.S. training ag staff to track, trap, kill ‘murder hornets’

Invasive species remains threat to bees, honey producers

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Blaine, Wash. | Reuters — The first Asian giant hornet nest of the year has been found in Washington state, and plans are being developed to eradicate it, likely next week, the state’s agriculture department said on Thursday. The so-called stinging “murder hornets,” the world’s largest hornets, can grow to five centimetres in length and
Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: The political winds are blowing

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For those who care about such things, it’s been an eventful few days in politics, both provincially and federally. Here in Manitoba, Brian Pallister, the only Manitoba premier in many years to have grown up on a farm, confirmed speculation that he won’t be leading the Progressive Conservatives into the next campaign. And federally, the
Stuart Watts, a director of Glenfiddich parent company William Grant & Sons, stands by a fuelling station next to their truck, that runs on whiskey-by-product based biogas, in Dufftown, Scotland.
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Whisky waste used to fuel trucks

Glenfiddich makes 'one for the road'

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Reuters – Scotch whisky maker Glenfiddich has begun converting its delivery trucks to run on low-emission biogas, made from waste products from its own whisky distilling process, as part of a “closed loop” sustainability initiative, the company announced in late July. Glenfiddich said it has installed fuelling stations at its Dufftown distillery in northeastern Scotland
A view of BHP’s potash mine project north of Jansen, Sask. (BHP.com)
Crops, Markets, Other

BHP approves Saskatchewan potash project’s completion

Major miner expects to produce about 4.4 million tonnes of fertilizer per year

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After over a decade of development and digging, one of the world’s biggest mining and metals companies has granted its Saskatchewan potash mining project the go-ahead to completion and full production. Australian-British mining firm BHP announced Tuesday its board has approved its potash mine about 60 km southeast of Humboldt, near Jansen, Sask., for another
As far as safety is concerned, there is no truly safe place from lightning if you get caught outdoors.
Other, Weather

Talking about lightning

How lightning is formed, and how to stay safe

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Over the last week or so, I finally saw some lighting in my area and, while I was not home at the time, I received a short but heavy pounding of hail. This got me thinking about thunderstorms and about lightning, so I checked back over the different weather articles I have written, and it

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