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A submerged bridge over the Red River in 2011. (IanChrisGraham/iStock/Getty Images)

Manitoba farmers unfazed by flood reports

By GFM Network News March 16, 2019

MarketsFarm — As experts forecast a spring flood to hit southern Manitoba, farmers in the Red River Valley won’t be caught off guard. Manitoba’s Emergency Measures Organization held flood preparedness seminars in Morris, Brandon, and Selkirk throughout the week of March 11. Topics covered included the forecast, flood outlook, preparedness and response and disaster financial

A Sept. 12 view from the International Space Station down the eye of Hurricane Florence, which has since weakened to a post-tropical cyclone. (NASA photo)

Livestock, Weather

Florence shuts down U.S. slaughterhouses

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein, Tom Polansek September 18, 2018

Chicago/Los Angeles | Reuters — U.S. food companies kept slaughter plants shut on Monday in southeastern states swamped by Hurricane Florence as flash floods collapsed the walls of at least two hog manure pits, made roads undriveable and delayed rail shipments. Catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Florence, which has dumped up to 36 inches of rain

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Canadian hog prices to rise by summer

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News March 17, 2017

CNS Canada — Cheap prices for feed and a softer Canadian dollar have helped keep Canadian hog prices aloft so far in 2017. “Right now producers are looking at $180 to $184 a pig,” said Andrew Dickson, general manger of Manitoba Pork. “Prices are looking pretty good for June, July, August.” By July, he said,

Southeastern Saskatchewan’s accumulated snowpack, as shown here east of Weyburn on March 9, i expected to lead to above-normal runoff in the area. (Leeann Minogue photo)

Crops, Weather

Runoff levels up in Saskatchewan’s forecast

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 9, 2017

Saskatchewan has raised its expectations for spring runoff across the board, now predicting “near normal” levels for much of the province and “above normal” to “well above normal” levels in its southeast. The province’s Water Security Agency on Thursday released a March spring runoff forecast pointing to two “areas of concern” — the province’s far

Canadian scientist Robert Sandford says there is an urgent need to address and adapt to climate change and its effects on the hydrological cycle.

News

Western Canada has crossed into an entirely new hydro-climatic cycle, scientist says

Climate change is accelerating hydrology at an even faster pace than earlier thought, making for rapid-fire change

By Lorraine Stevenson November 18, 2016

A Canadian scientist says those trying to protect farmland from future floods, and bolster local resilience against other extremes of hydrologic climate change must do so with a sense of urgency. “I hope you’ll see beyond urgency to the emergency we face if we do not act in a timely and effective manner to protect

News

Federal disaster mitigation lacklustre

Ottawa is not doing enough to address looming problems, says federal environmental commissioner

By Alex Binkley June 14, 2016

The frequency of severe weather events is rising, but the federal government has yet to make it a priority, the federal environment commissioner has told Parliament in a special report. Julie Gelfand’s office has audited federal programs between 2010 and 2015 and concluded that despite being the best positioned to lead with information and tools

Crops, Weather

U.S. grain shippers await El Nino dryness after unseasonable flood

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume January 6, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– The clear Midwestern skies that El Nino cycles typically bring could be a boon to the U.S. heartland this spring, after recent record rain levels soaked the region, swamping farmland and disrupting grain export shipments on swollen rivers. Farm fields across the Midwest are saturated, according to the U.S. Department of

Crops, Weather

El Nino now seen more likely to last into spring

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 13, 2015

New York | Reuters — A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday raised the likelihood that El Nino conditions would last into the Northern Hemisphere’s early spring to 85 per cent, boosting the probability that drought-stricken California could see increased rains. The Climate Prediction Center, a U.S. National Weather Service agency, last month forecast an

Crops, Weather

Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 5, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Some of Argentina’s northern soy-growing areas were flooded by heavy rains in the past week, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said Thursday, warning that it may lower its 57 million-tonne 2014-15 harvest forecast in the coming weeks. The country is the world’s No. 3 soybean exporter and top supplier of

Premier Stephen Harper and Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger examine flooded areas around Brandon in July 2014. (PMO photo by Jill Thompson)

Weather

Manitoba seeks more climate-responsive risk management

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 21, 2015

A Manitoba provincial task force has been set up to seek ways in which farm risk management programs could be “more comprehensive and sustainable” in handling “climate-related challenges” such as floods. “Manitoba’s farmers have told us existing agricultural programs can’t adequately address these climate-related challenges, especially as they become more common,” Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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Manitoba farmers unfazed by flood reports

Florence shuts down U.S. slaughterhouses

Canadian hog prices to rise by summer

Runoff levels up in Saskatchewan’s forecast

Western Canada has crossed into an entirely new hydro-climatic cycle, scientist says

Federal disaster mitigation lacklustre

U.S. grain shippers await El Nino dryness after unseasonable flood

El Nino now seen more likely to last into spring

Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

Manitoba seeks more climate-responsive risk management

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