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Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Late-Seeding Tips From MAFRI

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“Planting when the soil is too wet will lead to soil compaction, which can decrease yield much more than planting a few days later.” – MAFRI The later a crop is seeded the lower its potential yield, but Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) says there are things farmers can do to make the
Crops, News

Duff Roblin (1917-2010): Manitoba Crop Insurance Pioneer

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“Farmers at the time were not insurance oriented at all.” – HAYDEN TOLTON To most Manitobans, former premier Duff Roblin’s main legacy will always be Duff’s Ditch – the floodway diverting spring run off from the Red River around Winnipeg that has saved the city many times. But Roblin, who died last week at 92,
Crops, Oilseeds

Cover Crop Program Considered

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Compensat ion for crops damaged or destroyed by recent heavy rains across Manitoba will come from crop insurance and AgriStability, but Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers hasn’t ruled out a conservation cover program. Struthers is also committed to improving drainage. “Our government has been increasing the amounts that have been going into maintenance of drains…,” Struthers
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Too Much Rain For Farmers

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“My experience has been crops at the early stage of growth are quite vulnerable.” – BOB WEI NS It never rains but it pours, and depending on where you were on the weekend, it poured some more. Most of agro-Manitoba received at least 23 mm of precipitation, with many areas getting 50 to 75 and
Livestock

Mcpa Pushes Cattle Price Insurance

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Manitoba cattle producers have renewed their call for a national cattle price insurance program based on a model operating in Alberta. MCPA officials made the pitch during an April 18 meeting with Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger and Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers, who responded “very favourably,” said general manager Sheila Mowat. “They’re very aware of it,”
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

U. S. Cowboy Checkoff Fight Grows

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“There’s a real sense that the proposed NCBA changes leave no strong role for state beef councils and non-NCBA members. Who speaks for them if these changes are adopted?” – NANCY ROBINSON Of all the political hot rocks farm groups are juggling now in Washington, D. C. – cap and trade, cuts in crop insurance,
Livestock, News

Mobile Phones Bring Insurance To Kenyan Farmers

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Kenyan farmers can now insure some of the costs of growing crops against bad weather by using mobile phone technology that links solar-powered weather stations to an insurance company. Farmers can cover the cost of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides at local agricultural supply shops by paying an extra five per cent of their value. If
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U. S. Panel Opposes Cuts For Wealthy Farmers

The House Agriculture Committee on Mar. 3 rejected President Barack Obama’s proposals to reduce crop subsidies to higher-income farmers and federal support for crop insurance. There was little discussion as the committee refused farm cuts requested by the president for the second year in a row. With elections in November, the committee approved a letter
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Cash On Hand Could Save The Farm

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There will be more business opportunities in agriculture the next 10 years than there’s been in the last 30, according to agricultural economist David Kohl, the keynote speaker at the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium Feb. 10 in Winnipeg. But there will also be more ways to go broke, he cautioned. Farmers can protect themselves through
Hogs, Livestock

Supply Management For Livestock Mulled

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“You can do it but it’s really complicated.” – PETER CLARK, TRADE LAWYER The financial crisis in the cattle and hog sectors has some producers uttering two words out loud that they would never previously have whispered in the dark: supply management. The question heard at farm meetings and in coffee shops is: would it

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