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Durum lacks momentum ahead of competing harvests

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus March 14, 2017

CNS Canada — Canadian durum prices are at a standstill as the market looks to upcoming production, while domestic crops act as a “wild card,” one Winnipeg-based analyst says. “The durum market is certainly quiet right now. We’re kind of in that period where we’re in a lull,” said Jerry Klassen, manager of the Canadian

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Canada’s durum market share seen dropping

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus July 15, 2016

CNS Canada –– Global durum values are moving lower as producers in Europe and the U.S. start selling — and leaving Canada out of the market, one analyst says. “The only one that’s not selling aggressively is Canada, and we’re losing market share, big time,” said Jerry Klassen, manager of the Canadian office for Swiss-based

A wheat crop in standing water. (Colton Yoder photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather

Wet wheat weather watched worldwide

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus July 6, 2016

CNS Canada — Generous rainfall has benefited but also boosted the risk of disease on wheat crops in much of Canada and the U.S., and has also cut into grain quality in parts of Europe. However, according to Drew Lerner of U.S. forecast agency World Weather Inc., conditions during the harvest season will be the

(File photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops

Stacked LL/RR canola off the menu for 2016

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 23, 2016

The first canola hybrid to stack Genuity Roundup Ready and LibertyLink traits in one seed won’t be on the market for this growing season. Just weeks after its Jan. 22 announcement of a limited launch for InVigor Choice LR250 for the 2016 season, Bayer CropScience Canada now says concerns over seed quality and export market access have

Winnipeg-based pumpkin grower 13-year-old Milan Lukes is eagerly awaiting the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth Weigh-Off on October 3 to find out if he’s got a winning entry this year. This is his third year growing giant pumpkins.

Local news

Pumpkin growers ready to vie for 2015 heavyweight title

Self-professed pumpkin-growing addicts will converge on Roland Oct. 3  to find out who will be this year’s heavyweight champion

By Lorraine Stevenson September 24, 2015

Milan Lukes has crawled inside the pumpkins he grows. He fits in the cavity because he’s only 13 years old. He dug into them last year and in 2013 to collect seed. “There’s room for people my size in them, which is cool,” says the teen from St. Norbert who is growing pumpkins again this

Livestock, Markets

JBS to expand in processed foods, eyes Europe

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 20, 2015

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s JBS, the world’s largest beef exporter, is looking to enlarge its processed foods operations and expand in Europe, CEO Wesley Batista said in an interview with Valor Economico published Friday. The company, which in recent months has made billion-dollar acquisitions in the U.K. and U.S., is also looking to

Opinion

Editorial: Keep talking about farm safety

By Laura Rance-Unger September 14, 2015

We’re going out on a limb here to say the farmers featured in this week’s front-page story are courageous, not because they survived their harrowing ordeal, but because they are talking about it. The father and son duo made a mistake that could have ended tragically. Joel Dewitz admits to feeling pretty sheepish about the

Jessica McKague is assistant curator at Steinbach’s Mennonite Heritage Village Museum where the exhibit, Mennonite Food: Tastes in Transition, is on display until early 2016.

Country Crossroads

Steinbach museum reveals a global recipe swap

A new exhibit at Steinbach’s Mennonite Heritage Village Museum explores the impact of migration and other influences on Mennonite food

By Lorraine Stevenson July 29, 2015

Why do Mennonites eat watermelon and roll’kuaka? Where’d their recipe for varenikje come from? And what’s up with all that farmers’ sausage, anyways? A new food history exhibit at the Mennonite Heritage Village Museum in Steinbach answers those questions and more. Typical Mennonite foods like kielke (egg noodles, schmauntfat (white cream gravy) and/or pereschtje (meat-filled

Our History

Agriculture ministers meet to end “chicken and egg war”

Our History: July 1971

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 23, 2015

In July 1971 you could save on long distance by calling between midnight and 6 a.m. — a three-minute call was $1 or less ($6.12 in 2015 dollars). That made it cheaper to communicate by telegram, and we reported that the Manitoba Egg and Poultry Association had sent a telegram to Ottawa requesting resumption of

Dairy cattle

Supply management compensation plan rumours dismissed by Ritz

News reports suggest the federal government may yield to outside pressure  to grant increased access to Canadian markets

By Alex Binkley July 13, 2015

A front page Globe and Mail article claiming the federal government is planning a compensation scheme for supply management farmers “is pure speculation,” says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. The newspaper said the compensation would be intended to blunt the impact on supply management from Canada joining the Trans-Pacific Pact. Speculation about a TPP deal this

Daily Network News

Feed Grains Weekly: Good export demand pushing up domestic prices

Beef DNA testing now available in Canada

Domestic abuse survivors may need extra support when livestock is involved, experts say

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