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New market lows, as crops are huge

December 11, 2008

DON BOUSQUET It’s Your Business For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed future s at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Dec. 5 lower, with fresh contract lows appearing in both barley and canola. Canola was pressured down by weakness

Livestock, News

Wolves attacking cattle in south-central Manitoba

By Ron Friesen December 4, 2008

“You can’t just run out and kill every wolf you see.” – Martin Unrau, MCPA Bill Guenther is missing a quarter of his calves and he’s pretty sure he knows why. About six weeks ago, Guenther surprised a large wolf – “a big grey bugger” – eating on a freshly killed 600-pound heifer calf on

News

Flooded cattle producers ineligible for tax deferral

By Ron Friesen November 27, 2008

Flooded Manitoba farmers who are selling off cattle and hoping for an income tax break are out of luck unless Ottawa changes the rules. Producers may defer income from livestock sales for one year only if they are forced to sell animals because of drought, not flood. That leaves out flooded cattle farmers who are

Other

Interlake ranchers to get AgriStability TAPs

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 27, 2008

About 850 Interlake and Westlake livestock producers are expected to have access soon to targeted advance payments (TAPs) through AgriStability. “This federal-provincial program has been implemented to address urgent issues so this advance will provide financial assistance now, when producers need it the most,” provincial Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk said in a release Nov. 19,

Other

Wolves take big bite from bottom line

By Bonnie Baltessen November 13, 2008

There are plenty of reasons to fear the big bad wolf. This past summer, producers in the Interlake have experienced heavy losses due to hungry wolves attacking their calves. In fact, Nick Halaburda has had so many losses in the last few years, he wrote to his MLA and to the minister of agriculture, food

Crops, Forages, Livestock, News

Southwest cattle herds shrivel in prolonged drought

By Ron Friesen November 6, 2008

The water in Allan Downey’s cavernous dugout should be 10 feet over his head. Instead, it’s just a small pool at his feet. It’s not nearly enough to get his cattle through the coming winter. What Downey prays for is an old-fashioned winter with six-foot snowdrifts and adequate spring run-off to recharge the dugout and

Livestock, Livestock Markets

Fall cattle run underway but calf prices discouraging

By Ron Friesen October 30, 2008

A late-fall cattle run finally awakened last week as livestock auction markets throughout Manitoba saw significant increases in the number of animals coming to sale. “This week it’s kind of sprung loose a little bit. There’s been lots of big numbers everywhere,” Scott Anderson, a field representative with Winnipeg Livestock Sales, said Friday. “For this

Cereals, News

Election changes little on farm scene

By Alex Binkley October 23, 2008

The Conservative win in the Oct. 14 election brought little change to the farm scene in Parliament. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was re-elected with a comfortable margin in his western Saskatchewan riding, despite the national flap over his “cold cuts” comments. Ritz’s main critics, Liberal Wayne Easter and the NDP’s Alex Atamanenko, also won in

Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Oct. 23, 2008

October 23, 2008

CWB needed now more than ever Several decades of deregulation championed by Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, U. S. president Ronald Reagan, Canada’s Brian Mulroney, and their biggest cheerleader, Stephen Harper, have come home to roost with the global market meltdown. Of course we have been here before. For farmers the real depression started in 1921 with

Cereals, Crops, News

Crop Report – for Oct. 23, 2008

By Manitoba Agriculture October 23, 2008

Report for Oct. 20, 2008 Southwest Average yields and grades are as follows: Wheat yielded 40 to 50 bu/ac; 75% graded 2CW. Barley yielded 75-90 bu/ac; about 20% is malt quality. Oats averaged 90-100 bu/ ac and all grading 2 or 3CW. Canola averaged 40-45 bu/ac grades of #1CAN. Flax averaged 25-30 bu/ac and #1CAN.

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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