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Are we slowly working our way out of a drought?

Some relatively dry winters have messed with our perception of what’s average

By Daniel Bezte February 1, 2022

What was on almost everyone’s mind at the start of this winter was the ongoing drought across our region. Hopes were high that we wouldn’t see a repeat of last winter and after a fairly early dump of snow, those hopes were bolstered. Then that first dump of snow partially melted away and the first

Crews work as Canadian Pacific Railway tracks are suspended above the washed-out Tank Hill underpass of the Trans-Canada Highway after devastating rain storms caused flooding and landslides, northeast of Lytton, B.C. on Nov. 20, 2021. (Photo: B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure handout via Reuters)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Year-end profits up for CN, CP despite lower grain handles

Railways' ledgers weather drought, B.C. disasters

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 29, 2022

Both of Canada’s big two railways were able to improve their overall gross and net in 2021 over 2020 despite a yield-robbing drought and disastrous track and bridge washouts in southern British Columbia. Canadian National Railway (CN) on Tuesday reported 2021 net income of $4.892 billion on $14.477 billion in gross revenue, up from $3.784

Crops, Markets

Transport strains pile on drought-induced feed shortages

Importing U.S. corn not cheap

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel January 26, 2022

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers say they are just days away from running out of feed for cattle, due to severe drought last summer damaging crops needed to fatten them over winter and transportation bottlenecks. The drought devastated Prairie pastures and has now forced feedlots in Alberta, the main cattle-producing province, to buy more

Manitoba’s new ag minister Derek Johnson, whose constituency includes Diageo’s Crown Royal distillery at Gimli, congratulated the company on social media Monday for prizes earned at the Canadian Whisky Awards. Those included distillery of the year for Gimli, and Canadian whisky of the year for Crown Royal Nobel Collection Winter Wheat. (Facebook)

Manitoba names new ag minister in shuffle

Derek Johnson replaces Ralph Eichler

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 18, 2022

Another MLA from Manitoba’s Interlake region has been named to handle the province’s farm file in Premier Heather Stefanson’s latest cabinet shuffle and portfolio restructuring. Stefanson, who replaced Brian Pallister as premier in November, on Tuesday named Interlake-Gimli MLA Derek Johnson as minister of agriculture, replacing Lakeside MLA Ralph Eichler, who has been dropped from

Weather, Weather Vane

Canada’s top weather stories of 2021

Part 2 | Wait, we had a severe cold snap last winter?

By Daniel Bezte January 18, 2022

In my last column we began our look at the top Canadian weather stories of 2021 and from the perspective of weather, what a year it was! The two top stories were the incredible heat wave that impacted a huge area of Western Canada in late June and early July and the devastating flooding that

Keystone Agricultural Producers president Bill Campbell.

News

KAP makes budget pitch to provincial government

Group says tough year underscores importance of government’s role

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 13, 2022

The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) has released its wish list as the provincial government begins budget deliberations. KAP’s budget recommendations address economic competitiveness, the environment, labour and public trust. “Many farmers struggled in 2021 because of ongoing drought conditions in parts of Manitoba,” said KAP president Bill Campbell. “This has re-emphasized the fact that government policies, programs

ICE March 2022 canola (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (yellow line) and November 2022 canola (green line, left column). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Weather

ICE weekly outlook: Despite declines, signs point to increases for canola

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 13, 2022

MarketsFarm — Although old-crop canola was falling back midway through the week of Jan. 10, analyst David Derwin of PI Financial in Winnipeg said the oilseed should “grind higher” in weeks to come. “The fundamentals haven’t changed at all — they’re not going to get more canola out of the ground until the fall,” he

Cattle producers are finding the effects of drought are lingering into the winter, in the form of high-nitrate feed.

Livestock

Nitrate fears in feed come due

Feed tests are less expensive than a dead cow or reproductive wreck, experts plead

By Alexis Stockford January 11, 2022

Nitrate poisoning has claimed a number of cattle this year, provincial livestock specialist Pam Iwanchysko has confirmed. “It’s been a tough go, in that regard,” she said, noting that, in some of those cases, equipment issues kept producers from properly processing bales and mixing high- and low-nitrate feed properly. When that high-nitrate feed was also the most

Cattle producers were particularly hard hit by the drought of 2021.

News

2021 had a recurring theme

There’s little doubt 2021 was an especially tough year for farmers

By Alexis Stockford January 10, 2022

Looking back at my coverage in 2021, there are a few words that keep cropping up. “Grim” is one of them. So is “dire.” There were other contenders: “critical,” “parched,” “scrambling.” In short, this year had me spending a certain amount of time with my thesaurus. How many ways can you say that things are

News, Other, Weather

Precipitation, moisture low in Manitoba despite fall reprieve

Interlake and Eastman regions had 50 to 85 per cent normal soil moisture; Red and Assiniboine River valleys had 85 to 115 per cent normal moisture, says new report

By Marketsfarm January 10, 2022

Last summer’s drought resulted in below-normal soil moisture and precipitation levels in most of southern Manitoba but some areas received late relief, according to a new report from the province. Manitoba Infrastructure’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre released its 2021 fall conditions report on Dec. 16, stating that most of southern Manitoba received only 50 to 85

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago corn, soy prices recover on updated biofuel guidance

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on tightening cattle supply

New foliar-applied nitrogen enters Canadian market

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