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ABOVE: Little snow remains on fields near Brandon in mid-March.
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Manitoba farmers confronted with a dry spring

Much of agro-Manitoba is sitting at 30 per cent or less of normal precipitation since November, and that’s not counting the dry fall beforehand

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Agro-meteorologists have good news and bad news. The good news is: chances are you’re getting onto your field early this spring — in fact, the first reports of field work in central Manitoba have already started trickling in over social media. The bad news is: those worries you had about a dry spring are coming
A plaque near the entrance of the Manitoba Archives Building in Winnipeg. Reading journals from Hudson’s Bay Company posts, a researcher can sometimes gather anecdotal clues about historic temperature and precipitation on a given day.
Other, Weather

On anecdotal evidence and the WS-5000 weather station

There’s still plenty of time for us to receive significant precipitation — or not

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Lately I seem to have a lot of topics to discuss. For example, it seems like this winter was one of the shortest on record. This should be an easy question to answer, but it is not. What defines winter? Is it a certain range of temperatures? Snow on the ground? Or, as my son
Feds invest in climate-smart agriculture
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Feds invest in climate-smart agriculture

The goal will be farmer-led best practices to store carbon and fight climate change

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The federal government is putting up $185 million over the next 10 years for a new Agricultural Climate Solutions (ACS) program. The ACS program “aims to establish a strong, Canada-wide network of regional collaborations led by farmers and including scientists and other sectoral stakeholders,” the government said in a media release. Those stakeholders will develop
“If the changes stay focused on organizational and structural changes the impact on student achievement will NOT happen.” – Eileen Sutherland.
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Education reform will harm rural communities, says Manitoba School Boards Association

Others more cautious about Bill 64,looking for robust consultation before reforms made into law

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Abolishing school districts and boards will silence rural communities and may lead to the gutting of rural education, says Manitoba School Boards Association president Alan M. Campbell. “Their voices will be gone,” Campbell told the Co-operator. On March 15, the province released the text of Bill 64, the Education Modernization Act, one of several bills
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Ag ministers withdraw AgriStability reference margin limit

Program's compensation rate unchanged but 'remains on table'

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In a move expected to provide $95 million in additional farm support per year, Canada’s ag ministers have agreed to remove the reference margin limit from the AgriStability farm income stabilization program. “That’s it! The ‘reference margin limit’ of the #AgriStability program is over! And it will be retroactive to 2020!” federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude
Manitoba farmers are seeing a changing landscape for loans.
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Competition grows for cash advances for Manitoba farmers

Alberta’s FarmCash is the latest option for province's growers

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Manitoba farmers have lots of options for low- and no-interest cash advances on their soon-to-be-seeded 2021 crops, including new to the Manitoba market, FarmCash, operated by the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC). FarmCash joins the Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) and Manitoba Livestock Cash Advance Inc. — stalwart administrators of the federal
Cashing out: The history of the cash advance in Manitoba
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Cashing out: The history of the cash advance in Manitoba

Manitoba’s corn cash advance started 40 years ago followed shortly by canola

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Corn was the first non-wheat board crop in Manitoba to qualify for the federal government’s cash advance program starting in 1981. Jim Pedersen, who was president of the Manitoba Corn Growers’ Association at the time, helped get the association incorporated — a prerequisite to administering the program that offers low- and no-interest loans to farmers
Few strings to cash advances for farmers
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Few strings to cash advances for farmers

Cash advances are some of the most flexible financial arrangements farmers can access

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The organizations administering cash advances want farmers to know they can get low-interest (and even no-interest) loans against seeded and stored crops with just one string attached: they must repay the loan as they sell their crop. The first $100,000 is interest free and as much as a further $900,000, depending on where you get
Drying costs can’t be passed on to buyers so Canadian farmers have argued a carbon tax puts them at a competitive disadvantage.
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MP Philip Lawrence defends drying bill at committee

Bill sponsor MP Lawrence says farmers are paying a disproportionate share of the carbon tax

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A law intending to offer financial relief from carbon pricing for farmers drying grain was the focus of a recent parliamentary committee. On March 9, MPs sitting on the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food had a chance to question the bill’s creator, Conservative MP Philip Lawrence. The proposed law reached committee after receiving support from each party outside

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