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Unharvested grain cash advance option available

Alteration of program makes advances for unharvested grain available for the first time

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If you’ve been unable to harvest your crops this fall, you may still be eligible for a cash advance under a revised application deadline. For this program year the Canadian Canola Growers’ Association (CCGA) will accept new seeded cash advance applications until March 2017. “The deadline extension means farmers have a new option for generating
MASC had a record number of hail claims and payouts in 2016.
Crops, Local news, Weather

Record hail claims, payouts for MASC in 2016

The big white combine took a heavy toll in Manitoba this year

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This was a hail of a year for a lot of Manitoba farmers — in fact, it was a record. The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) received 4,700 hail claims in 2016 and has so far paid out more than $43 million on destroyed or damaged insured crops, David Koroscil, Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation’s acting
2017 excess moisture insurance deadline Nov. 30
Crops, Local news

2017 excess moisture insurance deadline Nov. 30

Farmers who want to increase their EMI coverage, or buy down their deductible, have until the end of the month

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The deadline to make changes to 2017 excess moisture insurance (EMI) coverage is Nov. 30. That’s also the deadline for new farmers who haven’t had crop insurance before to get higher EMI coverage rather than just the basic. Excessively wet fields this fall increase the possibility that some won’t get seeded before the Manitoba Agricultural
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
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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

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