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What’s Up – for Dec. 17, 2009

December 17, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Dec. 16-17 – Manitoba Cattle Producers Association annual general meeting, Victoria Inn, 3550 Victoria Ave., Brandon. For more info visit www.mcpa.net. 2010 Jan. 19-21 – Manitoba Ag Days, Keystone Centre, Brandon. For more info call 204-571-6566 or visit agdays.com.Jan. 19-21 – Red River Basin Land and

Cereals, Crops, News

U. S. Wheat Farmers Struggle With Low-Protein Crop

By Julie Ingwersen September 24, 2009

Farmers in the northern U. S. Plains are harvesting a bin-busting spring wheat crop, but much of it has a lower-than-normal protein content, which lowers its value, industry experts said. “We have one of the lowest average protein contents that we’ve had in the spring wheat crop in years,” said Mike Krueger, president of the

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Manitoba-North Dakota Border Flooding Issue Flares Up Again

By Ron Friesen May 21, 2009

“We want all the drainage to occur as nature intended.” – NORTH DAKOTA OFFICIAL Bryon Heinrichs steers his pickup truck westward and drives cautiously along a rutted embankment with bare cropland on both sides. The fields are slowly drying out after being flooded by the spring melt four weeks earlier. That is, some fields were

Livestock

Heavy Calf, Cow Losses

By Daniel Winters May 7, 2009

Huge livestock losses in North Dakota from heavy snow and flooding last winter show that ranchers are not immune to Mother Nature’s fury. Emily Tescher-Johnston, a livestock agent with the Ward County extension service based in Minot, North Dakota, said that a perfect storm of circumstances that began last summer led to the loss of

Cereals, Crops, News

Wet Fields Worry U. S. Farmers

April 23, 2009

Persistently soggy wheat fields in the U. S. Northern Plains are keeping farmers waiting – and worrying – about when, or if, they would be able to start planting the 2009 Hard Red Spring wheat crop. Historic flooding triggered by early-spring melting of snow and ice have literally swamped farmers throughout North Dakota, the chief

News

Flooding Reroutes Trains

April 16, 2009

The risk of flooding along the Red River has forced Canadian Pacific Railway to reroute shipments, including grain, that normally flow from Canada into North Dakota. Starting April 3, CPR was rerouting trains from Winnipeg west to Saskatchewan and into North Dakota, said Mike LoVecchio, spokesman for the railway. The change adds “a large detour”

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Northern U. S. Flooding May Cut Wheat Crop, Boost Soy

April 9, 2009

North Dakota and Minnesota face the worst spring flooding in years, which could prompt farmers to cut spring wheat plantings by as much as 500,000 acres in the four main wheat-producing U. S. states. Farmers still able to seed a crop will look hard at soybeans, which can be planted as late as early June,

Cereals, Crops, News

Flood Won’t Affect Wheat Prices

By Mark Weinraub April 2, 2009

Severe flooding in the upper reaches of the United States cutting spring wheat plantings by 500,000 acres will be overwhelmed by plentiful global supplies that will keep the pressure on prices. The Red River Valley, a top spring wheat-growing area stretching from western Minnesota to eastern North Dakota and north into Manitoba, Canada, is braced

Cereals, News

Spring Flood Risk Worsens For Red River Valley

March 19, 2009

Farmers in the Red River Valley are bracing for one of the worst spring floods on record after heavy snow this week. The river runs north from the northern states of North Dakota and Minnesota into the Canadian province of Manitoba. The U. S. National Weather Service upgraded March 13 the flood potential in the

Livestock, Other

TB investigated in North Dakota herd

December 18, 2008

A North Dakota beef herd is being tested for bovine tuberculosis, following the identification of a cow with a TB lesion at a Minnesota meat-processing plant, the North Dakota Agriculture Department says in a release. “We are in the early stages of the investigation, and complete results of the herd tests won’t be known for

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What’s Up – for Dec. 17, 2009

U. S. Wheat Farmers Struggle With Low-Protein Crop

Manitoba-North Dakota Border Flooding Issue Flares Up Again

Heavy Calf, Cow Losses

Wet Fields Worry U. S. Farmers

Flooding Reroutes Trains

Northern U. S. Flooding May Cut Wheat Crop, Boost Soy

Flood Won’t Affect Wheat Prices

Spring Flood Risk Worsens For Red River Valley

TB investigated in North Dakota herd

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