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Warmer weather on the horizon?

By Daniel Bezte April 9, 2013

If you’re hoping for a warm spring-like forecast, then you better stop reading right here. The area of low pressure that looked to bring some stormy weather around Wednesday of this week came in off the Pacific as predicted, but took a much more northerly route. This prevented the system from tapping into a lot

Hogs, Livestock

There are many ways to improve farrowing rates

By Bernie Peet April 9, 2013

There’s a large variation in farrowing rate between farms, ranging from as low as 75 per cent to around 92 per cent. Many producers still view 85 per cent as being an acceptable target and figure it can’t be improved much further. But close attention to a range of management factors can often result in

Beef cattle, Livestock, Other livestock

EU may lift animal byproduct ban for pig and poultry feed

By Ivana Sekularac April 9, 2013

But safety measures may make its use in animal feed too expensive and retailers fear a consumer backlash

The European Union hopes to ease the cost of protein used to make pig and poultry feed by lifting a ban on byproducts imposed during the mad cow disease outbreak over a decade ago. The change would come at a time of heightened consumer concern about food safety in Europe after it was discovered that

Weather

Looking like a late start to spring

By Daniel Bezte March 28, 2013

Most of us can hardly wait until the snow melts and warm spring temperatures move in for good. It seems as though a lot of us are just assuming spring should be arriving early each year — after all, isn’t that what global warming is supposed to be about? As we learned last March, if

Crops, Oilseeds

World demand for biodiesel bodes well for canola

By Lorraine Stevenson March 28, 2013

For good or ill, oilseed and grain growers now have their fortunes tied to the energy market, says a renowned international trend watcher. The rise of biofuels has fundamentally altered the business of agriculture and not just by pushing up market prices, economist James Fry, chair of LMC International, a leading international consulting firm, told

Crops, News, Weather

Ethanol maker plans controversial water wells to maintain production through drought

By P.J. Huffstutter March 28, 2013

Reuters / In a bid to churn out ethanol even in the worst of droughts, Archer Daniels Midland Co., the nation’s largest producer of corn-based biofuel, is preparing to break ground on two new water collector wells to aid a key Illinois corn-processing plant. The 40-foot collector wells, to be dug on the company’s property

Crops, Grain Markets

Ethanol eyed for lowering U.S. surplus sugar mountain

By Charles Abbott March 28, 2013

Reuters / The U.S. government is readying a tool created during last decade’s biofuels craze — a never-used program to sell sugar at a loss to ethanol makers — as a way to whittle a looming sugar surplus down to an affordable size. The sugar-for-ethanol program could be a lower-cost way for the Agriculture Department

Weather

Winter’s still hanging on

By Daniel Bezte March 25, 2013

The storm forecast at the start of this week materialized and brought more heavy snow to pretty much all of southern and central Manitoba. Behind this system, cold, quiet weather has moved in, allowing winter to stick around a little longer. Just how long is what we’ll try to figure out in this forecast. By

Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock

Producer touts benefits of grass-fed beef

By Julienne Isaacs March 25, 2013

Bragi Simundsson says raising beef on grass is just common sense; it’s the marketing that gets complicated. “Ruminant animals like cattle and sheep were built to eat grass,” reads the Arborg farmer’s web page at www.manitoba grassfedbeef.ca. “We think that animals should do the job they were built for. We believe that the protein portion

Crops

Biomass potential still untapped, but advocates say its time will come

By Shannon VanRaes March 25, 2013

Province says biomass will be a $2-billion industry by the end of the decade,  but admits it doesn’t even know the current size of the sector

Biomass proponents in Manitoba say new government policies are needed if the industry is going to develop in a meaningful way, especially in the face of cheap natural gas. “The current energy policy in this province, and it’s not Manitoba Hydro’s fault, is to get cheap energy, cheap electricity especially — that’s their mandate, that’s

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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