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Tile drains are perforated plastic pipes installed below the crop rooting zone, used to reduce the depth of shallow water tables in imperfectly and poorly drained areas of a field. This pipe has a filter sock to prevent sediment from getting into the tile system.

Make it drain: Is tile right for your fields?

A producer and an agrologist consider whether tile is worth your while

By Jim Timlick February 27, 2024

Tile drainage may be the best tool in the toolbox to manage saline soil in fields, a southwestern Manitoba farmer told an audience at the recent Ag Days farm show. Aaron Hargreaves, who co-owns Harwest Farms south of Brandon, said he and his four partners have struggled with soil salinity on their farm since they […] Read more

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Canada-made sustainability index gets funding boost

A pilot version of the index was published in May of 2023

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News February 27, 2024

The federal government has pledged more than $3.1 million for the continued development of a made in Canada sustainability index for agricultural products.

Liberia-flagged bulker K Sukret, carrying grain under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, waits for inspection in the southern anchorage of Istanbul on May 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan)

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Zelenskiy says Black Sea grain corridor in doubt without US aid

Conservative Republicans in US House of Representatives threatening to block further military aid

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 27, 2024

New York | Reuters -- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that without new U.S. military aid his country would be unable to defend a Black Sea shipping corridor that has allowed Kyiv to export millions of tons of grain to global markets.

A demonstrator reacts as Spanish farmersprotest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation and grievances shared by farmers across Europe, in Madrid, Spain, February 26, 2024. REUTERS/Juan Medina

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Farmers protest across Europe, press ministers to act

Protests continued in Brussels, Madrid, border between Poland and Germany

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 26, 2024

Farmers on Monday blocked a border crossing between Poland and Germany, threw bottles at police in Brussels and gathered in Madrid to demand action on cheap supermarket prices and what they say is unfair competition from abroad.

At Lethbridge just one year in the past 10 booked above-normal precipitation during its growing season.

Columns, Weather

A decade of dry

Let's review the variability of weather and soil moisture at Lethbridge

By Ross H. McKenzie February 26, 2024

Weather is often the greatest factor that influences crop production across the Prairies — in particular, growing season precipitation and level of heat. The southern Prairies, particularly the regions of the Brown and Dark Brown soil zones, have the lowest growing-season precipitation, in the range of 150 to 200 mm (six to eight inches) and […] Read more

French farmers drive their tractors on a highway as they protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by farmers across Europe, in Longvilliers, near Paris, France, January 29, 2024. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

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EU leader proposes policy shift as farmers protest

Rules "create a risk for EU food security" agriculture commissioner says

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 23, 2024

The EU should change conditions imposed on farmers who wish benefit from Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) funding, European Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said in an interview with French newspapers of the Ebra group.

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn and soybeans slump on supply glut, export competition

Wheat futures weaken as U.S. files sanctions against Russia

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 23, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade corn futures on Friday dipped below $4 per bushel in the front-month contract Cc1 for the first time since November 2020, as hefty U.S. and global supplies weighed over the market.

Farmers protesting in Toulouse, France, on January 16, 2024, with tractors bearing placards that read ‘Macron still an effort, soon all farmers will be dead’. Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Reuters

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French farmers prepare tough welcome for Macron at farm show

Demonstrations resume amid anger over costs, red tape, green regulations

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 23, 2024

French farmers were back on the streets of Paris on Friday, warning President Emmanuel Macron that he should expect a difficult welcome when he opens a major farm show on Saturday, amid anger over costs, red tape and green regulations.

The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

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U.S. grains: Corn, soy hit multi-year lows as South American supply fears wane

Rising stockpiles, falling Chinese demand spurred massive short in corn, soy

By Julie Ingwersen, Reuters, GFM Network News February 23, 2024

U.S. corn and soybean futures fell to three-year lows on Thursday, dragged down by expectations of ample South American harvests and rising stockpiles at a time of uncertain demand, analysts said.

Polish farmers block the road to the border crossing during a protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by European farmers and against importing agricultural produce and food products from Ukraine, in Okopy near Dorohusk, Poland, February 20, 2024. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki

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Poland-Ukraine government talks set for March 28, farmer protests persist

Farmers have broad public support; gov. trying to balance farmer, defense needs

By GFM Network News February 22, 2024

Poland's prime minister said on Thursday the Polish and Ukrainian governments would meet in Warsaw on March 28, but did not accept a request by Ukraine's president for urgent talks on border blockades by Polish farmers.

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ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

B.C. agrochemical startup gets $1.2M in federal funding

Pulses

Make it drain: Is tile right for your fields?

Canada-made sustainability index gets funding boost

Zelenskiy says Black Sea grain corridor in doubt without US aid

Farmers protest across Europe, press ministers to act

A decade of dry

EU leader proposes policy shift as farmers protest

U.S. grains: Corn and soybeans slump on supply glut, export competition

French farmers prepare tough welcome for Macron at farm show

U.S. grains: Corn, soy hit multi-year lows as South American supply fears wane

Poland-Ukraine government talks set for March 28, farmer protests persist

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