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1992 April Fool’s spoof no joke in 2013

March 28, 2013

The following contains excerpts from a Manitoba Co-operator editorial about “Europeanized” pigs running wild in rural Manitoba that ran as an April Fool’s spoof in 1992. While the anecdotes contained in the article are fabricated, it turns out they aren’t that far out in today’s context. According to news reports, Manitoba Conservation officials shot four

News

OUR HISTORY: September 1954

October 10, 2012

CCo-operator> editor Quincy Martinson decided to be a little more colourful than usual with prose describing the Dominion Bureau of Statistics crop estimate for Sept. 1954. Our main Sept. 23 headline was “Cosmopolitan home despoiled by vandals,” referring to more than 200 million bushels of wheat that had been robbed from the Prairies that year.

Weather

Frost hits most of the Prairies

By Daniel Bezte September 22, 2012

Interestingly enough, it was about this time last year that I was in the process of writing a very similar article to what I’m writing now. The eastern Prairies have seen a fairly warm fall so far this year, with average temperatures during the first two weeks of September around 2 C above the long-term

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Canada canola, wheat promising, but disease and heat take toll

By Rod Nickel August 21, 2012

Crop disease has taken some of the upside off what may still be a record-large Canadian canola crop, while prospects for spring wheat are promising, as Western Canada looks to be a global farm bright spot in a year marked by severe drought. Western Canadian crops survived intense summer heat thanks mainly to spring rains

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Prairie feed barley bids strong

By Ryan Kessler July 20, 2012

Cash bids for barley across Western Canada have seen an increase from last year. Limited supply on the Prairies and adverse weather conditions in the U.S. have contributed to the higher prices, particularly in Alberta. Bids at Lethbridge have moved up to anywhere between $5.75 and nearly $5.95 per bushel delivered to the feedlots, almost

News, Weather

Frost touches the Prairies

June 5, 2012

winnipeg / reuters / Temperatures dipped slightly below freezing on parts of the Canadian Prairies May 24 overnight, but damage to newly emerged crops looked to be minor, an agricultural meteorologist said. A few regions dipped slightly below freezing for several hours overnight, including parts of southern Alberta, southern and central Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba,

Cereals, Crops, News

Saskatchewan pledges seven figures to wheat research

February 14, 2012

The Saskatchewan government has pledged $10 million over five years in new funding for development work on better, hardier wheats. The new support, to flow through the province’s Agriculture Development Fund (ADF), is meant to “accelerate” development of new varieties and help improve “yield, quality and tolerance to disease and extreme weather conditions.” The province

Crops, Weather

Will the wet years be followed by drought in 2012?

By Dwayne Klassen January 24, 2012

Producers can expect drier-than-normal conditions this spring, according to weather outlooks for the next couple of months. “Less-than-normal precipitation across the Canadian Prairies ahead of the winter freeze-up have already left soil conditions on the drier side,” said Drew Lerner, with World Weather Inc. of Kansas City. The absence of significant snowfall and above-average temperatures

News

New inventions draw the crowds

By Angela Lovell January 24, 2012

The history of agricultural innovation in Western Canada is replete with inventions that came from the mind of a farmer and were built, initially, in his back shop. Some of those inventions are now in use on farms across the Prairies and beyond. And some of them were launched in Brandon at the Inventor’s Showcase,

Livestock, Livestock Markets, News, Weather

Dry winter a worry for cattle, winter wheat

By Rod Nickel January 17, 2012

Canada’s western farm belt is the driest it has been in five years, raising concerns for cattle and winter cereals. Large pockets of the Prairie provinces have received less than 40 per cent of normal precipitation during the past three months, according to federal Agriculture Department maps. “We have a lot of winter ahead of

Daily Network News

Equine herpes case confirmed at Moose Jaw Exhibition Company

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures lower after sideways trade

U.S. grains: Wheat ends higher on short covering though ample supply weighs

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