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‘River of rain’ begins falling on drought-stricken California

By Dan Whitcomb, GFM Network News February 6, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters — A so-called “atmospheric river of rain” began falling on northern California on Friday, bringing worries about flash floods, high winds and mudslides but offering little relief to a state left parched by several years of drought. The storm, also known as a “Pineapple Express” because it results from a ribbon

Livestock, Weather

Tax deferrals kick in for soaked and parched West

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 30, 2014

Ranchers under pressure from this year’s drought in B.C. and northwestern Alberta and excess moisture in western Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan may get income tax deferrals for their trouble. The federal government on Tuesday released its first list of designated areas for 2014, within which eligible producers who sold breeding livestock may be allowed to

Crops, Weather

Major storm hits drought-stricken California

By Curtis Skinner, GFM Network News December 11, 2014

San Francisco | Reuters — A Pacific storm lashed drought-parched northern and central California on Thursday with heavy rain and high winds, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes, disrupting flights, washing out roads and prompting school closures in the Bay Area. Nearly 240 departing and incoming commercial flights had been canceled at

Crops, Weather

More rain on the way for California, but drought may not be over

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 5, 2014

Sacramento | Reuters — This week’s California storms dumped up to 7.6 cm of rain on the parched state and more wet weather is on the way, but it is too soon to know whether there will be enough precipitation this winter to remedy three years of drought, forecasters said. Although the sun came out

Areas that have traditionally been considered drought prone could actually become wetter under climate change. file photo

International news

Climate change doesn’t follow the rules

New research suggests the drier-gets-drier and  wet-becomes-wetter rule of thumb is broken

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 2, 2014

New research is challenging the theory that climate change will cause drier areas to get drier and wetter areas to become wetter. The simplified formula, based on models and observations, is inaccurate most of the time, a team of climate researchers suggests in Nature Geoscience. An evaluation of trends in specific regions’ humidity and dryness

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

California drought delays cattle herd building

More feedlots,  packing plants may fail

By Theopolis Waters March 27, 2014

California’s recent rains brought only short-term relief to the state which is suffering its worst drought in a century, leaving cattle rancher Kevin Kester to stick to his strategy of salvaging as much of his operation as possible for his three children to have a future in the cattle business. “We have a plan to

Crops

Drought forces California farmers to idle cropland

The price of California farm goods, including fresh fruits and vegetables is likely to rise

By Steve Gorman February 20, 2014

Drought-stricken California farmers facing drastic cutbacks in irrigation water are expected to idle some 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of cropland this year in a record production loss that could cause billions of dollars in economic damage, industry officials said. Large-scale crop losses in California, the No. 1 U.S. farm state producing half the nation’s fruits

Cereals, Crops, News

Funds assist with malt barley analysis

April 18, 2013

Staff / Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC) has been granted $82,000 from the Western Diversification Program to do more complex testing and analysis of malting barley to meet increased international barley quality standards. “This investment will allow the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre to strengthen the international competitiveness of Western Canada’s malt and malting

Crops, Oilseeds, Weather

Winter storms bring relief to much of U.S. drought area

April 9, 2013

washington / reuters / Drought-stricken U.S. farmers were given good news by private weather forecaster AccuWeather. A series of winter storms, which have continued into March, are positive for spring seeding from the Plains to the East Coast, AccuWeather said in its 2013 U.S. spring weather outlook. “Compared to last year, for the season as

Opinion

Fighting more deserts

By John Morriss April 9, 2013

When I went to the barber in Swift Current in the summer of 1937 to get a haircut and shave, he said the haircut was OK but he had quit shaving people. I asked “how come” and he said he couldn’t keep an edge on the razor anymore. With the terrible dust and the shortage

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week low as Brazilian harvest looms; corn, wheat sag

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures end lower, hogs mostly lower

CFIA adds controls for imports of Spanish feed ingredients after African swine fever outbreak

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