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Drought threatens northern Italy’s crops

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Reuters – Northern Italian regions risk losing up to half their agricultural output due to a drought, a farm lobby says as lakes and rivers across much of Italy start to run dangerously low, jeopardizing irrigation. The federation of Italian utility companies, Utilitalia, warned this week that the country’s longest river, the Po, was experiencing
“If you don’t have a program that addresses the events specifically, then it can sometimes be a blunt tool to address it.” – Tyler Fulton.
Livestock, News

BRM programs a poor fit for challenged livestock sector

With so much extreme weather, is it time to change the approach to the livestock sector’s safety net

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This time, it was April when disaster struck. Calves were dropping across the province. Livestock operations, bitten hard by the 2021 drought, were urgently waiting for pastures to green. Nobody needed a half-metre of snow, enough precipitation to send parts of the province under water and extended power outages. In the aftermath, producers began to
File photo of a pea crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: Peas, lentils faring well but threats remain

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MarketsFarm — Growing conditions for peas and lentils in Saskatchewan during the spring can be described as variable. While western parts of the province continued to endure dry conditions carried over from last year’s drought, regions in the east were drenched with near-continuous rainfall to go along with below-normal temperatures. Lionel Ector, president of Diefenbaker
Dr. John Campbell is one of the country’s leading cattle experts, but even he doesn’t have much experience with early weaning of calves. It can be an option when feed is scarce, but the practice comes with many challenges, he said.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Weaning calves early isn’t normal but is an option when feed is short

There’s some clear benefits for the herd, but what do you do with the calves?

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Glacier FarmMedia – When feed is tight and times are tough, early calf weaning is an option — albeit an unusual one, says one of the country’s leading cattle experts. “Early weaning is talked about a lot, but not many people do it,” said Dr. John Campbell, a professor of large-animal clinical sciences at the
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Crops, Weather

Rains bring much-needed moisture to Alberta’s south

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MarketsFarm — Rains across southern and central regions of Alberta were both much-needed and well-received during the week ended Tuesday. Both regions received 20 to 50 millimetres of precipitation, according to the province’s weekly crop report released Friday. The amount of rain that fell onto the south region was equivalent to the amount of precipitation
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Weather

Drought worsens in Alberta, but eastern Prairies wet

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MarketsFarm — Highly varied precipitation across the Canadian Prairies in May saw drought conditions worsen in southern Alberta while parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan were becoming too wet, according to the latest federal Drought Monitor report. The report, released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) for the period ended May 31, showed that overall, 19
soil salinity
Crops, News

No washing away salinity risk

The same hydrology that made drought a salinity issue also causes problems the other way

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Farmers thinking that this year’s rains might wash away the salinity problems they faced during last year’s drought need to think again. Marla Riekman, a soil management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says that while it might seem counterintuitive, as things dry out in wet years like this, salinity tends to get worse. “With salinity, we
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Crops, Markets

Canola exports slow to trickle

Wheat exports also well behind curve: CGC

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MarketsFarm — Canadian canola exports have slowed to a trickle, as supplies dwindle with only two months left in the current marketing year. Only 900 tonnes of canola were exported out of the country during the week ended May 27, according to the latest data from the Canadian Grain Commission. That was down from the

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