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Kristen Podolsky speaks to producers in Morden.
Crops

Late planting of early soybeans explored

Growing season for soybeans could continue to shrink

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Early-maturing soybean varieties have been a great benefit to Manitoba producers and now researchers are trying to determine if they can also be planted later in the season. “I would have to say this is very exploratory work… we’re actually testing practices that aren’t the norm right now,” said Kristen Podolsky, a production specialist with
Another record for insured plantings of soybeans in Manitoba
Crops, Local news

Another record for insured plantings of soybeans in Manitoba

A prediction that soybeans could challenge canola for top spot doesn't look so far fetched now

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In 2013, grain market analyst Bruce Burnett predicted in five years Manitoba farmers would be planting just as many soybeans as canola. The intentionally provocative forecast was made to underscore how the combination of a warmer climate, improved soybean varieties and favourable returns can influence farmers’ planting decisions. But new soybean-planting records have been set
Cereal Implements, first in self-propelled swathers
Our History

Cereal Implements, first in self-propelled swathers

Our History: August 1986

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Canadian Co-operative Implements Ltd. (CCIL) started in 1940 as a co-op to market equipment and later manufacture its own. In 1973, CCIL built a large plant in Winnipeg to manufacture combines, swathers, discers, cultivators, harrows and other equipment. The decision turned out to be a poor one for the company, and it struggled for several
Crops, Local news

KAP head says crop insurance changes unnecessary

Dan Mazier is skeptical about suggestions recently made by former MASC chair Frieda Krpan

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A call for farmers to pay a greater share of crop insurance costs isn’t sitting well with the head of the province’s general farm organization. Dan Mazier, president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), says he doesn’t like the idea farmers pay more for crop insurance and he doesn’t believe it would reduce crop insurance
Frieda Krpan, the former chair of the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC), has some advice for Ralph Eichler, Manitoba’s new agriculture minister.
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Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation chair Frieda Krpan resigns

But she’s urging the new government to make sweeping changes

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Frieda Krpan has resigned from her role as chair of the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC), but she’s leaving behind some ideas for how the new government can save money. “I think as a new minister, Ralph Eichler has an opportunity to look at some bigger changes,” Krpan said from her home near St. Laurent
It might be feed, but it’s not necessarily feed wheat
Cereals, News

It might be feed, but it’s not necessarily feed wheat

Reporting winter wheat as feed wheat, 
just because it happened to be fed to animals, 
ignores the true grade of the crop

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Just because you’re selling winter wheat into the feed market, doesn’t mean you should report it to crop insurance as grading “feed.” While doing so won’t affect a claim, or your individual long-term coverage, it could over time negatively affect the province-wide crop insurance grade guarantee for winter wheat, which currently is No. 3 Canada
More crop insurance coverage for less in 2016
Crops, Local news

More crop insurance coverage for less in 2016

Grade guarantees will be introduced for feed wheats, 
including Faller, Prosper and Elgin ND

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Manitoba farmers will get higher crop insurance coverage in 2016 and pay less for it, Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn told Ag Days attendees Jan. 19. “Premium rates will decrease by an average of about 11 per cent compared to last year’s premium rates and this is due to the removal of the high 1989 (crop
Hand and harvester
Editorial

Editorial: A whole-farm approach

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If you think the future of government support for agriculture lies in doing more of the same but only better, you’ll get little comfort from Manitoba’s Agriculture Risk Management Review Task Force report released last week. The 25 recommendations and the supporting appendix report should also make you a little uncomfortable if you think the
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Crops, Weather

Cargill to sell crop insurance unit to Silveus

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Reuters — Global commodities trader Cargill will sell its crop insurance business to the Silveus Insurance Group next month, the two companies said Tuesday. The deal will close the second week in January, said Tyler Silveus, CEO for Silveus, based in Warsaw, Indiana. “We are not disclosing terms of the deal, other than we are

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