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A field of flax is harvested in southern Manitoba. Photo: Donna Gamache/File

canola, Cereals, Crops, Forages, Markets, News, Pulses, sunflowers

Most of Manitoba harvest wraps up for 2025

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 23, 2025

Manitoba Agriculture issued its final crop report of 2025, showing the overall provincewide harvest at 97 per cent complete as of Oct. 20. Nearly all major crops have finished combining, with 37 per cent of Manitoba’s sunflowers finished, plus 71 per cent of grain corn and small amounts of soybeans and potatoes left to do.

A 2017 tour, which highlighted an initial phase of the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association's Aquanty project, stops at a water control structure in the Assiniboine-Birdstail watershed, one of the areas included in that first hydrological model. Photo: File

News, Weather

Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association wins Water Canada innovation award

Recognition comes for the group’s work on the Aquanty project

By Miranda Leybourne October 22, 2025

The farmer-led Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association has earned the Early Adopter/Innovation Partnership Award from Water Canada for the MFGA’s collaborative Aquanty hydrological modelling project for water management.

four silver grain silos in field under bright blue sky

Crops, Markets

Grain marketing for hard economic times

Manitoba farms face tight profit opportunities this year; what strategies can farmers use to sell their 2025 crop to best financial effect?

By Miranda Leybourne October 22, 2025

Strong harvests in Western Canada clash with low grain prices, trade war-driven market uncertainty and high input costs. What strategies can farmers use to sell their 2025 crop?

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Families and others gather at Boonstra Farms to pick strawberries at this u-pick farm located in Stonewall, Manitoba. PHOTO: AHPHOTOSWPG/ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES

Crops

So you want to farm strawberries

Fall is the time for Manitoba farmers to set the wheels in motion for the 2026 strawberry field crop

By Jeff Melchior October 21, 2025

If you’re considering starting or expanding a Prairie strawberry farm, autumn is the time to start sourcing and securing the plants and inputs you’ll need, a producer from one Alberta-based U-pick says.

Xanthomonas translucens, the pathogen that causes bacterial leaf streak is named for the characteristic translucent streaks found on the plant's flag leaf. PHOTO: Don Norman

Crops

Researchers chase resistance to bacterial leaf streak

Manitoba researchers are testing whether known resistance genes can be effective against bacterial leaf streak in cereal crops

By Don Norman October 21, 2025

Bacterial leaf streak is re-emerging in cereal crops on Canada’s Prairies. With no fungicides or resistant varieties, researchers are testing plant genes for future control of the disease.

The cost of feed has declined in 2024, putting a lid on the need for a milk price increase. Photo: John Greig

Dairy cattle, News

Manitoba flags U.S. mega-dairy plans for international review

Manitoba government worries two massive proposed dairy projects in North Dakota will add nutrient loading to an already at-risk Lake Winnipeg

By Miranda Leybourne October 21, 2025

Manitoba has been pushing for international review of two proposed North Dakota dairy operations near the Red River. The province says those will add further nutrient loading risk to already-at-risk waterways.

Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association board alumni Larry Wegner during a 2023 grazing tour of his farm in southwest Manitoba. Photo: Alexis Stockford

Comment, Op/Ed

Farmer musings of post-harvest Manitoba

Harvest 2025 results, tariffs and the push to prepare for winter and beyond on Manitoba beef and grain farms

By Larry Wegner October 19, 2025

A former board member of the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association (MFGA) offers thoughts on harvest 2025 yields, tariffs and the push to prepare for winter and beyond on Manitoba beef and grain farms.

Weather, Weather Vane

Forecasting winter 2025-26 in Manitoba

A weak La Niña is in play again this winter, but its effects aren’t clear

By Daniel Bezte October 18, 2025

Three distinct factors are likely to drive the type of weather farmers and ranchers experience in Manitoba this winter, Daniel Bezte writes, starting this issue with a look at the atmospheric event known as La Niña.

a table of prices from manitoba cattle auctions during the week ending oct. 17, 2025

Beef cattle, Livestock Markets

Manitoba cattle prices, Oct. 17

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 17, 2025

Crops

Manitoba Crop Report: Harvest near completion despite snowfall

By Adam Peleshaty October 16, 2025

Despite snowfall in the northwest region, Manitoba’s harvest advanced to 93 per cent completion as of Oct. 13, 2025.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle extend gains on improving cash prices, packer demand

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide on China demand doubts

Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak

Tag Archives Manitoba

Most of Manitoba harvest wraps up for 2025

Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association wins Water Canada innovation award

Grain marketing for hard economic times

So you want to farm strawberries

Researchers chase resistance to bacterial leaf streak

Manitoba flags U.S. mega-dairy plans for international review

Farmer musings of post-harvest Manitoba

Forecasting winter 2025-26 in Manitoba

Manitoba cattle prices, Oct. 17

Manitoba Crop Report: Harvest near completion despite snowfall

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