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File photo of Diefenbaker Lake in southern Saskatchewan. (IanChrisGraham/iStock/Getty Images)

Federal irrigation pledge seen flowing mainly to Prairies

Infrastructure plan also includes promised broadband support

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News October 2, 2020

Prairie provinces will receive the bulk of Ottawa’s $1.5 billion commitment to support irrigation projects, according to federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday launched a three-year, $10 billion infrastructure plan aimed at five different sectors, including agriculture. The $1.5 billion is expected to result in 700,000 acres of irrigated land.

Farmer Ian Shippen stands under a mobile irrigation boom stretching nearly half a kilometre on his farm in the heart of Australia’s Murray-Darling River basin.

News

China claims Australian irrigation scheme is an unfair subsidy

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 2, 2020

China’s 80.5 per cent tariff on imports of Australian barley stem from an anti-dumping, anti-subsidy investigation launched in 2018. Beijing justified the penalty May 19, concluding Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan — a scheme to improve the well-being of an ecologically vital river system — is a subsidy for Australian growers. Under the plan, Australia buys

This map shows precipitation percentiles across the Prairies during the last half of the year ending Aug. 12. Three regions have been experiencing long-term dry conditions. The driest regions are found across central parts of agricultural Manitoba, southern Alberta and far-northern Alberta. The wettest regions are found across central Alberta and, to some degree, in south-central Saskatchewan.

Weather

Prairie rainfall: Too much and too little

By Daniel Bezte August 27, 2019

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of big weather stories currently going on in our part of the world, but is that really true? Sure, the weather overall this summer has been fairly quiet, with no massive storms or heat waves, but there has been a weather story that has been slowly building and

“Growing season rainfall varies a lot depending on where you are in the province and the crops that you’re growing,” says Provincial meteorology specialist, Timi Ojo.

Crops, Other

The importance of sticking to your crop’s water budget

Keep this crucial concept in mind when choosing crops to grow

By Angela Lovell January 29, 2019

A ‘perfect’ growing season would have just enough heat and moisture at the right times to make a bumper crop. The problem of course is that it rarely happens. With moisture being so critical to both short- and long-season crops, if producers had a better idea of their crop water budget going into a new

Crop irrigation in the U.S. withdraws 118 billion gals. of water daily while its livestock sector uses an additional two billion gals. a day.

Comment, Other

Comment: Brother, can you spare a cup of water?

Agriculture is a very thirsty industry and that could spell trouble

By Alan Guebert December 5, 2018

Humanity depends on three critical threes: Without oxygen, most humans will die within three minutes; without water, life expectancy is three days; without food, we’ve got three weeks. Few here give three seconds of thought of any of these life-ensuring elements because, here, food is safe and plentiful, air quality laws are in place and

Field day attendees get a look at the pivot-mounted radiometers, one of AAFC’s efforts to nail down variable-rate irrigation and mapping at Carberry’s CMCDC this year.

Crops, News

Potato researchers delve into variable-rate irrigation

Potato producers are hearing more about variable-rate technology, but researchers at Carberry are trying to dig up some concrete numbers on the technology

By Alexis Stockford November 5, 2018

If there’s a perfect recipe for success when it comes to variable-rate irrigation in potatoes, the researchers at the Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre (CMCDC) are still trying to find it. The idea of variable-rate irrigation is hardly new. As early as 2012, news of field trials was coming out of Alberta, although one of the

Rice farmers in India. PHOTO: KEVIN KRAJICK

Did you know?, News

Swapping crops

Growing crops other than rice could save water and improve nutrition

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 25, 2018

Researchers say the best choice for some developing countries may be to rethink the types of crops they’re growing. A paper by researchers at Columbia University, published recently in the journal Science Advances, examined the situation in India and found plenty of challenges based on its widespread cultivation of rice. It’s a water-hungry plant that’s

A coffee planter shows his coffee plantation in a farm in Sao Desiderio, Bahia state, Brazil on March 21. (Photo: Reuters/Roberto Samora)

Crops

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora March 27, 2018

Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Brazil | Reuters –– Farmers tending vast, flat soy and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye can see in northeastern Brazil are finding that coffee crops might provide higher profits in the country’s agricultural frontier. More coffee farms are being developed in the western part of Bahia state, which

(Lindsay Irrigation video screengrab via YouTube)

Ontario power utilities offer farm water pump rebate

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 25, 2018

Ontario farmers buying certain types of high-efficiency water pumping systems for irrigation, horticulture or stock watering could now be up for rebates. Hydro One and Niagara Peninsula Energy (NPEI) on Friday announced the AgriPump rebate program, which the two electricity utilities described as the first plan of its kind in the province. For farmer customers

AAFC researchers are examining 341 two-row barley genotypes for their potential of handling waterlogging stress in Manitoba growing conditions.

Cereals, Crops

Waterlogging stress can take a bite out of barley

Researchers at the Brandon Research and Development Centre are screening  341 two-row barley genotypes for their potential of coping with waterlogging stress

By Jennifer Paige September 27, 2016

Don’t get barley’s feet cold and wet — you won’t like the results. A spate of recent wet years and the crop’s known dislike for these conditions has a research scientist from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada looking at excess moisture and the crop. “Barley is known to have cold feet and to be susceptible to

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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