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Should you buy your numbers back quickly, or retain heifers? The answer is, it depends.
Beef cattle, Livestock

To buy, or not to buy

BCRC study hopes to map out a farm’s best path toward a rebuilt herd

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A farm’s best plan when it comes to rebuilding the cattle herd after drought may have a lot to do with how deeply they had to cull, according to the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC). The advice is the result of a BCRC modeling study, which hoped to gauge the best recovery method for different
Gary Millershaski, a farmer and scout on the Wheat Quality Council’s Kansas wheat tour, inspects winter wheat stunted by drought near Syracuse, Kansas, this past spring. Worries are already mounting there may be a repeat.
News, Weather

U.S. winter wheat farmers plant into dust

Analysts say despite historically high prices for time of year, acreage could fall

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Reuters – With planting roughly halfway complete, as of Oct. 17, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains, wheat experts said. Planting plans may be scaled back in the U.S. breadbasket despite historically high prices for this time of year, reflecting
File photo of vessels on the Mississippi River south of New Orleans on Nov. 5, 2017. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Weather

Shallow Mississippi River expected to persist as dry winter hits U.S. South

River levels at historic lows this fall

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Reuters — Low water levels on the Mississippi River are likely to persist this winter as drier-than-normal weather is expected across the southern U.S. and Gulf Coast, U.S. government forecasters said on Thursday. Drought, which currently spans 59 per cent of the country, is expected to continue or worsen in the middle and lower Mississippi
“If you use weather data, you won’t find one of these droughts. Look at these droughts of 20 to 30 years.” – David Sauchyn, PARC.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Tree ring timeline a window into the past – and future

Recent droughts have been devastating but the trees say we ain’t seen nothin’ yet

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It’s 888 CE. In Europe, the Vikings are rampaging through England and France and the Carolingian dynasty is losing its grip on the Holy Roman Empire. In China, the Tang Dynasty is in power. In what’s now Saskatchewan, Indigenous peoples are living through a dry spell that would last another three or four decades. Scientists
glass of milk and dairy cows
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EU sees lower meat and dairy output

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Meat and dairy production in the European Union is expected to decline this year and next as livestock farms feel the effects of drought, disease outbreaks and rising costs, the EU’s executive said Oct. 5. A historic drought in Europe this summer has reduced availability of grass and grain to feed herds, increasing costs for
“In the EU, impacts of the summer drought, despite the sparse return of rainfall, have brought the yield outlook for crops to a rather uniform poor status.” – AMIS note.
Crops, News

Europe’s farmers bring in drought-scarred maize crop

EU production seen at 15-year low, raising import needs even in producing nations

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The European Union’s maize harvest is in full swing and field work is confirming widespread drought damage that analysts expect to push the feed grain crop to a 15-year low. A historic drought and successive heatwaves in Europe affected maize, or corn, during crucial summer growth stages. Showers in the past month appeared too late.
Markets, News

Dry soil in Russia’s south poses risk for 2023 grain crop

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Low soil moisture reserves in Russia’s southern breadbasket pose risks for the 2023 grain crop of the world’s largest wheat exporter, said agriculture ministry official Roman Nekrasov on Oct. 6. Farmers in Russia have accelerated winter wheat sowing after recent rain eased dry soil conditions in some regions last week, though sowing is still delayed
Cows that were stranded in a flooded barn at Abbotsford, B.C. are rescued on Nov. 16, 2021 by people in boats and on a jet-ski after rainstorms lashed the province, triggering landslides and floods and shutting highways. (File photo: Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)
Livestock, Weather

Drought-stricken B.C. bracing for floods when rains return

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Reuters — British Columbia on Thursday warned residents to prepare for flooding when rains eventually return after a prolonged drought exacerbated by climate change that has raised concerns about long-term damage to ecosystems ranging from glaciers to salmon rivers. The usually rainy western province has experienced weeks of record-breaking warm fall temperatures and minimal precipitation
Cattle receive supplemented feed at the Myhre farm near Crane River, Man.
Beef cattle, News

Fighting for footing: The great cattle exodus

Is there a way back from Manitoba’s continued slide in the cattle sector?

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In 2017, then-provincial agriculture minister Ralph Eichler set an aspirational goal for Manitoba’s place in the cattle industry. It was his intention to see as many cows on the landscape as there were before BSE devastated the market 15 years before. The day he uttered that objective, to a crowded auditorium at Ag Days in

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