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CGB’s soybean processing plant at Mt. Vernon, Ind. (CGB video screengrab)
Crops

CGB, soy grower co-op to build North Dakota crushing plant

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Reuters — U.S. grain handler CGB Enterprises and farmer co-operative Minnesota Soybean Processors are building a soy processing plant in North Dakota, the second new crushing facility announced in the state this year. The plant — which will be built near Casselton, about 25 km west of Fargo — is expected to crush 42.5 million
File photo of a soybean crop south of Winnipeg. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Soybean acreage remains a question mark for 2019

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MarketsFarm — Experts expect soybean acreage to decrease across Canada this year, though the jury is still out as to how much it will drop. In its principal crop acreage report published March 21, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada predicted that area planted to soybeans would decrease by three per cent across the country based on
Uncovering ‘backsetting’
Country Crossroads, Other

Uncovering ‘backsetting’

This lost agricultural practice was key to breaking the prairie to the plow

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In a number of accounts of homesteading there is mention of the practice of backsetting which was carried out when breaking sod. Just what backsetting actually involved was unknown to the interpretation committee at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum (MAM) until the committee obtained a book on the history of the Red River Valley. The book
Local news

Wetland restoration in Pembina Valley ‘a rarity,’ said CD officials

About 160 acres have been converted back to wetland after the landowners farming it saw more advantage using the acres to hold water than farming it at a loss

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Brenda and Cliff Seward had known for a long while a certain piece of farmland wasn’t very productive — but they kept on cultivating it anyways. This was about 40 acres, once slough, and drained more than 30 years ago, explains Brenda who farms southwest of Morden in the Kaleida area. Read more: A watershed
Ripe soybeans near Morden, Man. on Sept. 14, 2017. (Allan Dawson photo)
Crops, Weather

Manitoba soybean yields disappoint

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CNS Canada — With Manitoba farmers starting to bring in their early-maturing soybeans between intermittent rains, they may start to see the toll from the dry summer. Many crop analysts see soybean yields below what farmers have enjoyed for the past couple of years, but they stress that fields are variable and that longer-season varieties
Flood risk persists across most of Manitoba
Local news, Weather

Flood risk persists across most of Manitoba

The Red, Souris, Pembina, Roseau and Lower Assiniboine rivers and Whiteshell Lakes areas 
are all at major risk of flooding, February 27 flood forecast report says

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Manitobans have been told to prepare for flooding this spring with the risk of moderate to major flooding persisting in many areas of the province. “At this time, we encourage communities to continue with preparatory measures such as ensuring emergency protocols are in place,” Infrastructure Minister Blaine Pedersen said during the release of the first
Mario Tenuta holds up a jar containing soybean roots with nematodes for inspection at the Ian N. Morrison research farm near Carman.
Crops, Oilseeds

Soybean cyst nematode co-evolved with crop

They are tiny world travellers and Manitoba’s Red River Valley could be 
the next stop on the soybean cyst nematode’s global tour

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In the middle of the Ian N. Morrison research farm near Carman, an unlikely scene is unfolding as farmers and agronomists crowd around what looks like an old jam jar. “Careful, we don’t want this to break,” Mario Tenuta stresses, with a bit of a chuckle. But what’s inside the tightly sealed jar is no

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