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Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 19

Conditions as of September 6, 2016

By Manitoba Agriculture September 6, 2016

Harvest 2016 continued across Manitoba with good progress made in cereal crops and canola. However, wet weather over the weekend in some areas of the province impacted harvest operations. Harvest will resume quickly in areas that received lower rainfall amounts and where field conditions allow. Field operations will be delayed in areas that received significant

Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: Warm with the chance of more thunderstorms

By Daniel Bezte September 2, 2016

As summer unofficially draws to a close it looks like the warm and relatively dry weather we’ve been seeing will continue. Last issue’s forecast played out fairly well, with the large western low drifting by to our north late in the weekend and the trailing cold front bringing some fairly strong thunderstorms late last Sunday.

Syngenta researchers at Elm River are looking at ways for growers to boost the value of their soybean acres in Manitoba conditions.

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Testing soybeans in local conditions

By Jennifer Paige August 31, 2016

Researchers at Syngenta’s Elm River research farm are looking at ways Manitoba producers  can optimize production methods to get the best value out of their soybean acres

As more and more western Canadian producers introduce soybeans into their rotation, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered about how to best make them fit. Nobody is exactly sure how to best streamline production and determine ideal planting conditions, according to one seed specialist. “There are a lot of factors

Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 18

Conditions as of August 30, 2016

By Manitoba Agriculture August 30, 2016

Harvest 2016 continued across Manitoba. There were challenges due to wet weather and field conditions in some areas, as well as high grain moisture contents. To date, spring wheat yields range from 30 to 90 bushels per acre, barley 60 to 100 bushels per acre, oats 80 to 175 bushels per acre, field peas 15

Our History, Weather

Wet weather far from a distant memory

Our History: August 2014

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 25, 2016

Weather in recent years may have some farmers thinking almost fondly of the 1980s, which were even drier than the 1930s. Above is our weather page from just two years ago in the August 28, 2014 issue. Daniel Bezte wrote about yet another unusually strong area of low pressure which had brought more rain. The

A supercomputer-modeled simulation showing the expected impact of global warming on Earth’s surface temperatures. (Photo courtesy NASA)

Crops, Weather

Man-made warming dates back almost 200 years, study says

By Alister Doyle, GFM Network News August 25, 2016

Oslo | Reuters — Man-made greenhouse gases began to nudge up the Earth’s temperatures almost 200 years ago, as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace, far earlier than previously thought. Greenhouse gas emissions from industry left their first traces in the temperatures of tropical oceans and the Arctic around 1830, researchers wrote in a recent journal

Weather, Weather Vane

Forecast: Chance of showers to start, then dry

Issued August 22, 2016 – Covering the period from August 24 to August 31, 2016

By Daniel Bezte August 25, 2016

As summer slowly winds down, most regions felt the first little hints of autumn last weekend, as overnight lows dropped into the 5 C range. For this forecast period it looks like summer is going to continue to hang around. That means we’ll probably end up seeing a few hot days, the odd day with

Crops, Weather

Quality still a question for Canada’s big wheat crop

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin August 25, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers are sitting on a very large wheat crop this year, but the moisture that helped boost yields also caused disease issues and supplies of higher-quality wheat may still be in short supply. While the spring wheat harvest is just getting started and it’s hard to get a firm handle on

Crop Report, Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 17

Conditions as of August 22, 2016

By Manitoba Agriculture August 22, 2016

Sporadic rainfall, high humidity and wet field conditions have slowed harvest progress in areas of Manitoba. However, harvest does continue as weather and field conditions allow. Winter wheat and fall rye harvest is complete. Winter wheat yields range from 50 to 100 bushels per acre, with an estimated provincial average of 75 bushels per acre.

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Forecast: Seasonable late-summer weather

Issued August 15, 2016 – Covering the period from August 17 to August 24, 2016

By Daniel Bezte August 18, 2016

For a change, last week’s upper low ended up weakening considerably as it passed through our region, so instead of seeing several days with clouds and showers we only saw partly cloudy skies with only a few widely scattered showers and thunderstorms. For this forecast period, for the first time in a long while, it

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How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

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Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 19

Forecast: Warm with the chance of more thunderstorms

Testing soybeans in local conditions

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 18

Wet weather far from a distant memory

Man-made warming dates back almost 200 years, study says

Forecast: Chance of showers to start, then dry

Quality still a question for Canada’s big wheat crop

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 17

Forecast: Seasonable late-summer weather

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