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Transport strains pile on drought-induced feed shortages

Importing U.S. corn not cheap

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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

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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 Vane by Daniel Bezte
Weather, Weather Vane

Canada’s top weather stories of 2021

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

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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.
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KAP makes budget pitch to provincial government

Group says tough year underscores importance of government’s role

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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
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

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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.
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2021 had a recurring theme

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

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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
Precipitation, moisture low in Manitoba despite fall reprieve
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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

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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
Calf prices took a hit going into the fall run, dropping to some of the lowest levels seen over the past decade, says the manager and senior analyst at Canfax.
Livestock Markets, Markets

Drought, COVID-19 pandemic strengthen ranchers’ resolve

Canada became a net importer of feeder cattle in 2021

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Midway through 2021, the Manitoba cattle industry faced its toughest stress test in decades as drought extended throughout the Prairies and threatened the livelihood of cattle producers. “It was very difficult to deal with all the facets of a drought. It really stressed individual producers. It stressed our resources to be able to deal with
Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson received 2.7 inches of rain at his home near Miami. Man., June 9 — the most rain he received in one event during the 2021 growing season. The tap turned off in July with just 0.8 inch recorded the whole month. While it was dry around Miami, some parts of the province, including the Interlake, received much less.
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The drought of 2021 won’t soon be forgotten

Dry weather and near-record heat ended a string of bumper Manitoba crops

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Late last winter a farmer friend shared his concern about the 2021 growing season. We’d had almost no snow in southern Manitoba and the previous fall and summer had been dry too. It felt like drought. He was right. As someone present for both I’d say 2021 was the worst drought here since 1988. This

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