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Wet Olympics opening ceremony were a window to France's farmer woes.

Countries must each respond to climate change

A new study shows trade may not help a warming planet fight its farming failures

By Massachusetts Institute Of Technology November 30, 2015

Warming temperatures will take a heavy toll on agricultural productivity, according to climate scientists. How will society adjust? One possibility might be increased trade: If one country suffers a decline in, say, wheat production but can still grow as much rice as ever, then — in theory — it might grow more rice and trade

Fall field work was still underway in many areas of the province under record-high temperatures last Sunday, including along Mountain Road just east of Erickson. Projections from the new Winnipeg-based Prairie Climate Centre suggest this could be a more common mid-November sight in future.

News, Weather

Atlas showing future climate change under development

An online resource of maps and data will help planners adapt to climate change

By Lorraine Stevenson November 20, 2015

Growing conditions on the Canadian Prairies will be very different if global warming trends continue — but how different? A new series of online maps offers a glimpse of the length of season, temperature changes and rainfall farmers in the not-so-distant future could face under various scenarios. The maps are part of a ‘climate atlas’

Crops such as corn and soybeans have been steadily heading north as weather conditions become more favourable.

Crops, News

Climate change could increase Canadian crop production

Climate change is already affecting what crops are grown in northern regions and more changes are on the way

By Shannon VanRaes November 17, 2015

Climate change is altering weather, raising sea levels and shrinking the Arctic, but that might be a good thing for Canada — at least from an agricultural production standpoint. “It looks like Canada is going to be one of the winners from climate change,” said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund, speaking to industry

News, Weather

U.S. winter weather to see El Niño’s influence

Northern-tier states are expected to be warmer, drier than normal

By Reuters November 4, 2015

Much of the U.S. South can expect a cooler and wetter winter, while warmer-than-usual temperatures are likely across many northern and western states, as a strong El Niño weather pattern shaped a government weather outlook issued Oct. 15. More rain and snow are likely across the nation’s southern regions, extending from central California to Texas

News

Reinsurers call for action on climate change

Firms that manage weather risk are questioning governments’ resolve on emissions cuts

By Jonathan Gould October 9, 2015

Reuters – Politicians must act to cap global warming when they meet at a United Nations summit at the end of the year as the financial and humanitarian consequences of natural catastrophes become ever clearer, reinsurers meeting at an industry conference said. The US$600-billion reinsurance industry helps insurance companies pay damage claims from hurricanes, floods

Culicoides sonorensis. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, Weather

Livestock seen threatened as biting insects press north

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 23, 2015

Bluetongue’s most recent appearance in the Canadian cattle herd may be a taste of what’s to come as insect species expand northward, a new study warns. Anna Zuliani, previously a graduate student in veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary (UCVM), recently published a paper on how geographical distribution of biting midges relates to the

Crops, Markets, Weather

Severe ‘food shocks’ seen more likely due to extreme weather

By GFM Network News, Kate Kelland August 14, 2015

London | Reuters — Extreme weather such as intense storms, droughts and heatwaves will cause more frequent and severe food shortages as the global climate and food supply systems change, British and U.S. experts warned Friday. The pressure on the world’s food supplies is so great, and the increase in extreme weather events so rapid,

Crops, Opinion

Editorial: The green world’s breadbasket?

By Laura Rance-Unger July 13, 2015

Jeff Rubin, the former chief economist for CIBC World Markets turned bestselling author, knows all about adaptation. His first book, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller grabbed international attention with predictions that world oil prices would climb to more than $200 a barrel by 2012, forcing a rethink of almost

The red-belted bumblebee, shown here visiting a lupine, is among the species shown to be “responding very badly” to climate changes across continents. (Jeremy Kerr photo)

Livestock, Weather

Study of bumblebee decline points to climate ‘vise’

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News July 9, 2015

A study of the shrinking range of bumblebee habitat suggests farmers relying on those species to pollinate crops may soon have to look elsewhere, barring a reversal of climate change — or, perhaps, an “assisted migration.” An international study of specimens from 31 species of bumblebees in North America and 36 such species in Europe, as

Opinion

Editorial: Canada’s GHG stance tarnishes our brand

By John Morriss June 29, 2015

Things aren’t going too well in the international trade agreement department. At the World Trade Organization (WTO) round, which has been dragging along since 1991, it’s come to the point where the director general is actually being honest about its prospects. “Taking an overview of all of these consultations it is hard to see a

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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