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Dry conditions can have lingering effects like higher pesticide residue levels that must be managed at the farm level to protect trade opportunities.
Crops

A risky business

Moisture extremes are just one of the realities that make farming in Manitoba a real challenge and can affect trade

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In recent years grain production in Manitoba has been batted from one weather extreme to another. There have been cool, wet seasons and hot, dry seasons. And each leave effects that linger far after the last bushel is harvested that can have big and unpredictable effects like a trade crisis because of an unexpected herbicide
Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association chair Fred Greig says creating crop committees will address concerns raised about directors’ workload and crop representation if five Manitoba commodity groups amalgamate.
Local news, News

Commodity group merger revised

The new proposal will address concerns from farmer-members

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Five Manitoba commodity groups have revised their amalgamation proposal. It now includes four crop committees to address concerns around director workload and crop representation and want members’ input until votes on merging are held in February 2020. “We heard the concerns expressed on the original proposal,” Fred Greig, chair of the Manitoba Wheat and Barley
Propane deliveries have hit a frenzy in Saskatchewan, although the same service delays have not been noted in Manitoba so far.
Crops, News

Wet weather fuels propane demand for grain dryers

Co-op says propane deliveries have hit record highs in Saskatchewan and are elevated elsewhere, although there have not yet been widespread service issues in Manitoba

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Propane demand has skyrocketed across the Prairies as more farmers look to their grain dryers, but Manitoba has so far avoided the service crunch. Demand for drying capacity has seen a sharp rise given the region’s early taste of winter. In the western Prairies, photos of producers checking standing crops via snowmobile have streamed over
Baker Colony won the Manitoba Corn Growers Association’s (MCGA) corn yield competition for the third year in a row with a record yield of 306.4 bushels an acre. The results were announced Feb. 14 at the CropConnect banquet in Winnipeg. Mack Waldner (second from right) received the competition trophy from MCGA president Myron Krahn (second from left) along with MCGA director Leonard Wiebe (l) and $1,000 from John McCulloch of DuPont Pioneer.
Crops, Local news

Baker Colony undisputed corn champ

It had a record-breaking 306.4-bushels-an-acre yield, marking the first time a competitor has hit 300 or higher

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It’s a three-peat for Baker Colony. The Hutterite Brethren community near MacGregor, Man., has won the Manitoba Corn Growers Association’s corn yield competition for the third time in as many years with a record 306.4 bushels an acre in 2017, beating its own record of 274.69 set in 2016. The colony won with DuPont Pioneer’s
VIDEO: Baker Colony brings home corn competition win once again
Cereals, Local news

VIDEO: Baker Colony brings home corn competition win once again

Manitoba Corn Growers Association yield competition winner on familiar ground

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Baker Colony near MacGregor, Man., won the Manitoba Corn Growers Association’s 2017 corn yield contest for the third year in a row breaking the record the colony set in 2016 with a yield of 306.4 bushels an acre. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson spoke with Mack Walder of Baker Colony on Feb. 14 at CropConnect.
Manitoba agriculture minister, Ralph Eichler.
Crops, Local news

Lower premiums for crop insurance in 2018

The unpopular pre-harvest deductible on corn and soybeans is gone, 
there’s coverage for novel crops and hail coverage options have been raised

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Insuring soybeans in Manitoba will be a lot cheaper this year, with premiums dropping an average of 17 per cent. That’s the biggest move in an across-the-board premium drop that sees an average reduction on all crops of seven per cent, Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler said while speaking at Ag Days here Jan. 16. Other
Volunteers prepare lunch at the annual St. Jean Farm Days.
Crops, Local news

Farmers mull commodity group merger’s risks and benefits

Vote on proposed merger to take place in early 2019

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Five Manitoba commodity groups were at St. Jean Farm Days last week, seeking input on a proposed amalgamation plan. At the event Myron Krahn told producers that “we’re here because we want farmers’ feedback, we want ideas from farmers… we’re looking for as much feedback as we can get, positive or negative, it doesn’t matter.”
Speaking at at Ag Days in Brandon Jan. 16 Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler announced an average seven per cent drop in crop insurance premiums for the 2018 crop. Some other important changes to crop insurance were announced in a news release, including ending the pre-harvest deductible for corn and soybeans.
Crops, Local news

Lower crop insurance premiums, in 2018

The pre-harvest deductible on corn and soybeans is ending and CHNR wheat gets its own category

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A host of changes, including lower premiums, are coming to crop insurance for the coming season. Speaking at Ag Days on Jan. 16 Ralph Eichler, the provincial agriculture minister told farmers they can expect to pay less, to no longer have pre-harvest deductibles for corn and soybeans, and to see changes in soybean coverage and
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Save time and money with accurate farm records

Our History: December 1981

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Farm records were still kept on paper in December 1981, when a Manitoba Agriculture ad invited farmers to talk to their ag rep about the new farm record book. Our Dec. 3 edition reported that 38-year-old former RCMP officer Bill Uruski of Poplarfield had been appointed as the new minister of agriculture in the Howard
During KAP’s Nov. 1 advisory council meeting Starbuck farmer Ed Rempel said he shared concerns raised by Butch Harder of Lowe Farm about losing farmer representation if five Manitoba commodity groups merge into one association.
Crops, Local news

Commodity merger gets chilly reception from some

Some farmers worried over loss of input

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The Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) meeting room was chilly, then Starbuck farmer Ed Rempel explained why. “Well Mr. Chairman, I think hell just froze over because I agree with everything Butch Harder just said.” The room erupted with laughter. Harder, a KAP District 3 representative who farms at Lowe Farm, had just told KAP’s fall

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