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Bipole’s green light leaves farmers seeing red

By Shannon VanRaes July 17, 2013

The CEC criticized Manitoba Hydro’s environmental assessments and says more consultation is needed with farmers, but it granted the environmental licence

Manitoba’s Clean Environment Commission (CEC) has granted an environment licence for Manitoba Hydro’s Bipole III transmission line, despite issuing a report criticizing the Crown corporation’s lack of consideration for agricultural and environmental concerns. “I’m extremely disappointed… it’s a sad, sad day for agriculture,” said Karen Friesen, president of the Bipole III Coalition, which represents affected

News

Square roots? Scientists say plants are good at math

July 5, 2013

Plants do complex arithmetic calculations to make sure they have enough food to get them through the night, new research published in journal eLife shows. Scientists at Britain’s John Innes Centre said plants adjust their rate of starch consumption to prevent starvation during the night when they are unable to feed themselves with energy from

Crops

Rethinking the possibilities of trees

The view from Northern Blossom Farms

By Gary Martens July 5, 2013

In this third letter from Northern Blossom Farms, Gary Martens  discusses ways to keep trees on the landscape.

In my first letter I advocated integrating livestock and crops for the synergistic benefits of both components to the farming system. In the next letter, I discussed my crop rotation which includes perennials but is still based mainly on annual crops. In this letter, I want to propose the integration of trees as a beneficial

Farmer Dale Tuholski adjusts his new pivot-irrigation system in Mill Creek, Indiana, June 11, 2012. A new study questions whether water costs will negate the benefits of ethanol.  photo: REUTERS/John Gress

Opinion

New study predicts rising irrigation costs, reduced yields for U.S. corn

By Rice University Release July 5, 2013

If the climate continues to evolve as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United States stands little to no chance of satisfying its current biofuel goals, according to a new study by Rice University and the University of California at Davis. The study published online in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental

A mile-high, 100-mile-wide dust storm that blew through Phoenix, Arizona in July 2011 is pictured in this NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Day turned into night as the billowy plumes of dust rolled over the mountains and clogged the skies over and around Phoenix. photo: REUTERS/MODIS Rapid Response Team/NASA/Handout

Did you know?, News

The answer is blowing in the wind Researchers find the West is dustier than it was before

June 26, 2013

The answer is blowing in the wind Researchers find the West is dustier than it was before The amount of dust being blown across the landscape has increased over the last 17 years in large swaths of the West, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The escalation in dust

Weather

The ingredients of a tornado

By Daniel Bezte June 19, 2013

After a fairly cool spring with few if any thunderstorms, summer has started to make headway into the Prairies over the last few weeks. In some years summers come and go with only the odd thundershower and maybe one big thunderstorm, but in other years every storm that comes along seems to bring severe weather.

Agriculture Canada’s Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg is being mothballed and its research staff transferred to other locations. photo: shannon vanraes

Cereals, Crops, News

Where is AAFC’s wheat-breeding program headed?

By Allan Dawson June 12, 2013

After closing Winnipeg’s Cereal Research Centre, the federal government has invested $85 million in a new wheat research program in Saskatoon

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has led Canadian wheat breeding for more than 100 years, but recent actions by the federal government have some wondering about its future role. A year ago, Ottawa announced it will close AAFC’s venerable Cereal Research Centre on the University of Manitoba’s Winnipeg campus because it would cost too much

Forages, Livestock

Forced to graze early? Some options for stemming the losses

By Tod Wallace May 14, 2013

For every day too early you graze in the spring,  count on losing three days of grazing in the fall

With previous flooding, drought and now a late spring, many producers will be faced with the question of what to do with pastures weakened by flooding and overgrazing. No matter how you look at it, you may be forced to sacrifice the health of some of your pastures. Let’s take a look at the cost

Opinion

A powerful engine for growth

By Laura Rance-Unger April 26, 2013

Researchers have discovered an environmentally sustainable instrument that could increase world food production by 30 per cent, but they’ve been having a tough time getting it commercialized. Is it a plant with a novel trait, or a new herbicide perhaps, bogged down by excessive regulations or those silly activists? Or maybe it’s a new type

Weather

Models continue to bring in warm weather

By Daniel Bezte April 26, 2013

After several weeks of seeing the warmer weather only a week or so away, it finally looks like it will arrive! Is this going to spell an end to our record spring cold snap? I’m not totally convinced of that yet. On Wednesday it looks like there will be another area of low pressure pushing

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on expectations of tight supplies

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall, but achieve first annual gain in three years

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026

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