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U.S. Crop Futures A Victim Of Growers’ Success

By Commodity News Service June 23, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform experienced a setback in value during the week ended June 17. The significant downturn in CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean and soyoil futures helped to facilitate the losses in canola, with the steady liquidation of positions by speculators and, to some extent, commodity fund accounts

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Think Carefully Before Growing Out Volunteer Canola

By Allan Dawson June 23, 2011

Crops that were broadcast seeded before the crop insurance deadline but produce an uninsurable stand are eligible for Excess Moisture Insurance (EMI) payments, said David Koroscil, manager of Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporat ion’s (MASC) Insurance Projects and Sales. However, crops that were conventionally seeded before the deadline but have failed due to excess moisture are

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba Monsoon Continues To Delay Seeding

By Allan Dawson June 9, 2011

Federal and provincial officials have started talking about aid under AgriRecovery after another week of heavy rains, hail and winds further delayed seeding. Both Manitoba Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers and his federal counterpart Gerry Ritz agreed to set up aid under AgriRecovery when they met May 31 in Winnipeg, Struthers said. Details are yet to

Cereals, News

Manitoba Farmers Struggle To Seed

By Allan Dawson June 2, 2011

Souris-area farmer Walter Finlay managed to seed two-thirds of his 2,900 acres in 2010. This year he hasn’t planted an acre. “It’s a combination of the fact that we were so wet last year and then we had 3-1/2 inches in October so we went into winter wet and then we had a bunch of

Crops

Take Steps To Protect Your Grain From Thieves

By Ashlee Espenell June 2, 2011

If someone steals your wallet when you’re not looking, you could be out a couple hundred dollars. If someone empties your grain bins when you’re not looking, you could be out a lot more. Farmers in the soggier parts of the Prairies may not be thinking about grain theft yet, but they probably should. On

News

Aid Package For Flooded Farmers

By Allan Dawson May 26, 2011

The Manitoba government announced several compensation programs worth an estimated $44 million for farmers May 24 as part of a sweeping $175-million package of mitigation and compensation measures related to flooding in the province. There is a program for farmers south of the Hoop and Holler Bend near Portage la Prairie and surrounding Lake Manitoba

Cereals, Crops

The Individual Productivity Index Explained

By Allan Dawson May 12, 2011

AManitoba Agricult ural Services Corporation official assured some skeptical Keystone Agricultural Producers members recently that using individual indexing is an accurate way to determine crop insurance coverage. Paul Bonnet, vice-president of research and program development, said the individual productivity index (IPI) smoothes out adjustments to each farmer’s probable yield. So if a farmer has several

Crops, News

Equitable Treatment Sought For Crops: KAP

April 28, 2011

The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is seeking changes to crop insurance rules to give farmers more flexibility in choosing their excess moisture deductibles. Farmers attending KAP’s general council meeting said they want the option of buying down their excess moisture deductibles in five per cent increments instead of having to buy it down to zero.

Forages, News

Compensation Sought For Artificial Flooding

April 28, 2011

Manitoba farmers should be compensated when flood prevention infrastructure causes their land to flood resulting in lost income, says the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP). “The farmers aren’t getting properly compensated for damage from holding the water on their lands,” Starbuck-area farmer Doug Livingston said during a debate at KAP’s General Council meeting here April 14.

Opinion

My Budget Plan: Annex Canada

By Alan Guebert April 21, 2011

Sure, Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, has a 10-year plan to take this country back from the poor, the uninsured, the elderly, the hungry and all the unemployed who threaten to make America a warmer Iceland. But, I ask, does Mr. Ryan’s plan go far enough in reining in this

Daily Network News

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Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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