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MBP Is First Stop For Cattle Evacuation Information

By Ron Friesen May 19, 2011

Cattle producers affected by the flooding crisis are urged to get in touch with Manitoba Beef Producers as their first point of contact. MBP is an information clearing house about available pasture land for producers who need to evacuate cattle. It can also advise producers forced to move animals about sources to contact and procedures

Opinion

Making Friends With The Enemy

By Laura Rance-Unger May 19, 2011

You can’t help but marvel at Manitoba’s capacity for fighting water. It’s become part of who we are as a province – Herculean efforts of people, money, sand and machines against the forces of nature. As we went to press this week, it was not clear who would win this latest round. This province is

News

U.S. Farmland Values Sideline Some Investors

By Carey Gillam May 19, 2011

Rising prices for farmland in the U.S. Midwest and fears that values may be creating an artificial bubble are driving some investors to the sidelines, though strong farm balance sheets are sustaining interest in many sectors, investment experts said on Monday. Surging prices for key row crops, such as corn, soybeans and wheat, are helping

News

Farmland Value Increases Slow Down

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 19, 2011

The value of farmland in Manitoba continues to increase but at a slower rate. Manitoba farmland values increased by an average 1.3 per cent during the second half of 2010, Farm Credit Canada reported May 9. That was down from gains of 3.4 and 5.9 per cent in the two previous six-month reporting periods. In

Livestock, News

Low-Stress Cattle Handling For Injury Prevention

By Lorraine Stevenson May 19, 2011

The Lundar Agricultural Society is hoping to make life a little more boring for Manitoba cattle producers. The society is bringing in Dawn Hnatow, a livestock manager for Addison Ranch in Bowie, Texas who conducts workshops on low-stress cat-t le handling across North America. There will be two days of workshops, on June 17 and

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

World’s Wheat Crop Not Yet A Writeoff

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 19, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts saw some choppy activity during the week ended May 13, finishing with declines for the most part as speculative profit-taking and ideas that seeding conditions were improving in parts of the Canadian Prairies weighed on values. Those planting conditions are expected to be a key factor to watch in the

Forages, Livestock, Other livestock

Introducing Your Horse To Spring Pasture

By Carol Shwetz May 19, 2011

DVM It is tempting to allow horses unlimited access to spring pastures as soon as the grass turns green, particularly after a long winter. But management practices which make this transition a slow and steady one are beneficial to both the horse and the pasture. In natural rangeland conditions, the new spring grasses are covered

Livestock

Food Security Key To Global Peace FAO Candidate

May 19, 2011

The world has to act against hunger, which affects 13 per cent of the population, if it wants to strengthen global security, a candidate to run the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said April 27. Franz Fischler, an Austrian who is former EU agriculture commissioner, said during an interview the whipsaw effect of volatile food

Crops

The Trouble With Broadcast Seeding

By Pam De Rocquigny May 19, 2011

With minimal acres seeded the first week of May 2011, the later-than-normal seeding is the talk of the coffee shop. But it’s too soon to panic. Data from the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation shows that from 2005 to 2010 more than 1.2 million acres of spring wheat and canola on average are seeded in the

Cereals, Crops

“B

By Ron Friesen May 19, 2011

readbasket of the World Under Siege” blared the headline on an opening slide in Dilantha Fernando’s PowerPoint presentation. It was a dramatic way to start a workshop on fusarium head blight. But was it exaggerated? “It all depends on which year we are talking about,” said Fernando, a University of Manitoba plant pathologist. It was

Daily Network News

Despite cheaper land costs, Canadian farmers at slight revenue disadvantage to U.S.

Feed grain weekly: Western Canadian barley bids seasonally firm

China’s Q1 pork output up 4.2 per cent from a year earlier, lags expectations

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