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Prairie forecast update: Storms roll in
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Prairie forecast update: Storms roll in

Updates forecast issued Feb. 21, 2024

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The weather models are coming into agreement with up coming storm system. The low was forecasted to develop over southern Alberta on Sunday with widespread snow developing to the north and west of the low. This placed the Edmonton region in the main snow band with 10 or so centimetres forecasted to fall across this region. The snow should move out quickly on Monday as cold arctic air pours southwards behind the low dropping temperatures to below average, but only for a couple of day.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announcing provincial funding of $30 million for the Port of Churchill.
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$60 million for Port of Churchill infrastructure

Feds, province provide funding to get the Hudson Bay Railway running again

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The federal and provincial governments announced a combined $60 million in funding for infrastructure supporting the Port of Churchill.  The February 23 announcement saw provincial and federal governments commit $30 million each to the Arctic Gateway Group. The limited partnership owns and operates the Port of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Railway, which connects The
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Stranded livestock land back in Australia after Red Sea turn-back

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Reuters – Thousands of sheep and cattle that were stuck on a ship forced to abandon passage through the Red Sea in January have begun disembarking at the same Australian port they left nearly six weeks prior, Australia’s agriculture ministry said Feb.12.  The MV Bahijah sailed from Fremantle, Western Australia on Jan. 5 for Israel
A farmer equipped to face police tear gas is posing for a photo while Indian farmers, who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices, wait to march to the capital near the Shambhu border that divides the northern Punjab and Haryana states, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) from New Delhi, India, on February 21, 2024. Photo: Rohit Lohia/NurPhoto.

Protesting Indian farmers burn effigies of Modi and other ministers

Farmers paused their march Wednesday after the death of a demonstrator--blamed on police aggression

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Shambu, India | Reuters -- Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers on Friday as they sought to expand their protest against his government months before elections.
Challenge participants will have to seed at least 80 acres and will be required to use a number of the company’s products.
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Yield challenge puts $55,000 in community funds up for grabs

Participants have until March 1 to enrol in Hometown Yield Challenge

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Nutrien Ag Solutions hopes its new yield challenge program will tap into farmers’ inner sense of competition. Farmers in Western Canada have until March 1 to enrol in the Hometown Yield Challenge. The competition will stack producer harvest totals against each other in November. The two top-yielding growers will choose a local organization to be
Jonathan Neutens speaks at the 2024 CrossRoads Crop Conference in Calgary.
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Financial expert to farmers: Stop using cheques

Rising number of financial scams should encourage diligence, two-factor authentication

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Glacier FarmMedia – Some producers have lost tens of thousands of dollars to a rising tide of financial fraud, one expert warns, and he wants farmers and agribusiness to protect themselves. “It’s unbelievable the amount of cases that have come through our organization in the last year and a half,” said Jonathan Neutens, head of
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Prairie forecast: Dry and mild west, seasonal east

Issued Feb. 14, covering Feb 14 to 21, 2024

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If you haven’t noticed, it has been an unusual winter, and that unusualness is causing all sorts of headaches with weather forecasting. In particular, cloud cover. In the last forecast period, it looked as if high pressure would dominate the weather bringing plenty of clear skies along with more seasonable temperatures.
Ukrainian farmers who owned their own equipment were not at risk of missing crucial field work windows. Photo: Ihor Pavliuk

War teaches Ukrainian farmers tough lessons 

As the war approaches its second anniversary, the farmers who adapted earliest have been in the best position to survive  

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Feb. 24 marks two years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It seems like a short time, but it has caused huge upheaval in our society. Hundreds of thousands have died and millions have lost their homes.
Assiniboine Community College staff and supporters stand outside the college’s Valleyview Building, the future home of the Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in 2020.
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ACC enters hopeful home stretch

Funding gives college a big boost towards ag expansion

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Assiniboine Community College is holding out for federal funds that would top off what it needs to start construction on its Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. The provincial government has committed around $90 million, college president Mark Frison said, and as of the third week of January, the private fundraising campaign had met its
David Frum speaking at Ag Days 2024 in Brandon.
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U.S. greatest geopolitical risk: Frum

Author and political analyst says U.S. absence harms global prospects

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Canadian farmers have front-row seats to the world’s biggest geopolitical risk, according to David Frum. “I think the thing that worries me the most is the threat that lies within the United States,” Frum, a journalist, former White House speechwriter, and conservative intellectual, told farmers at Manitoba Ag Days earlier this month. “If Americans make

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