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Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for the week centred on Jan. 6. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

FAO seeks help for drought-ravaged Ethiopia

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 15, 2016

Rome | Reuters — Ethiopia faces its worst drought in decades, leading the United Nations’ food agency to call on Friday for an emergency cash injection of US$50 million to help the country overcome the crisis. Crop production has fallen up to 90 per cent in some regions and failed completely in the country’s east, […] Read more

California’s Department of Water Resources gauges the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains through manual surveys, such as this one in late December 2004. (Paul Hames photo, copyright California Department of Water Resources)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Deep snow in California mountains offers hope in drought

By GFM Network News December 31, 2015

Reuters — A cold, wet start to California’s winter has dumped nearly five feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, state water experts said Wednesday, fuelling hope that 2016 will bring enough precipitation to help offset four years of drought. Snow surveyors headed to the mountains in Phillips near Lake Tahoe on Wednesday for […] Read more

Install the well. This photo shows a well installed with a cap on top — just loose of course. This was a very clean 11 foot hole so I had to set the top with natural clay from auger leavings.

Columns, Crops

DIY: Installing water table wells

With water in the soil, we can survive on little rain. Learn how to measure what you have

By Les Henry November 9, 2015

2015 will go into the books as a very different kind of growing season. In central Saskatchewan we started off with soil completely full of water after a big dump of snow on April 26. My rain gauges showed 2.5 inches of water when it all melted. And then Mother Nature turned of the tap […] Read more

Seeding near the Goyder Line, Peterborough, South Australia.

Crops, Features

Australians resilient to herbicide resistance

After the Millennium Drought, Australian farmers handle herbicide resistance with confidence

By Lisa Guenther November 5, 2015

To understand how Australian farmers handle herbicide resistance, it’s useful to know about the Millennium Drought. The drought stretched over a decade and tested farmers’ mettle. But they emerged from those dry years with heightened confidence, says Brad Collis, editor of Ground Cover. “The industry’s come through it in very resilient frame.” Collis credits agriculture’s […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Weather, Winter Wheat

Drought to shrivel Ukrainian wheat harvest in 2016

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 2, 2015

Kiev — Severe drought across half of Ukraine has hit winter sowing and could sharply reduce the country’s 2016 wheat harvest, a senior state weather forecaster said on Monday. The drought, in which the central Dnipropetrovsk region suffered its driest autumn in 50 years, could lead to a 20 per cent year-on-year fall in the wheat […] Read more

Crops, News

Irrigation key to Alberta’s economy

Study shows that irrigated agriculture contributes $3.6B to Alberta's GDP

By Julienne Isaacs October 27, 2015

A new study claims that irrigation agriculture is increasingly vital to Alberta’s economy, and irrigation farmers are key contributors. “The Economic Value of Irrigation in Alberta,” a study commissioned by the Alberta Irrigation Projects Association (AIPA) and funded through Growing Forward 2, claims that combined annual sales of irrigation crop and livestock products generated about […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses, Reuters

India’s drought a bonanza for Canadian pulse growers

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News October 14, 2015

Winnipeg/Mumbai | Reuters — Prices for Canadian pulses typically ease toward the end of the year but a recent dry spell in distant India, the world’s top producer and consumer, is driving them up. Back-to-back drought years for the first time in three decades has eroded India’s output of pulses and boosted imports. Global prices […] Read more

This Droughtmaster heifer was one of the animals on display at the breed exhibit during the Commonwealth Bank AgQuip event in Australia in August.

Features, Livestock

Cattle bred for Australia’s north

Grainews in Australia: With a little Canadian help, producers down under created Droughtmaster cattle

By Scott Garvey October 14, 2015

There probably isn’t a cattle farmer anywhere across the Canadian prairie in January that wouldn’t gladly trade places with an Australian farmer, particularly when the mercury disappears in the bottom of the thermometer. But the generally balmy climate down under isn’t without its challenges for stock growers either. The conditions cattle must contend with in the northern […] Read more

Wheat under irrigation on Ravenshoe Station near Hay, New South Wales. (Arthur Mostead photo courtesy Murray Darling Basin Authority/MDBA.gov.au)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Drought exposes cracks in Australia’s acclaimed water market

By GFM Network News September 20, 2015

Sydney | Reuters — A pioneering Australian scheme to improve the management of water in the world’s driest inhabited continent is facing its first real test as an intensifying El Nino threatens crops and builds tensions between farmers and environmentalists. The three-year old management plan for the Murray-Darling basin, an area twice the size of […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Western Prairies see low yields as harvest ramps up

By GFM Network News August 13, 2015

CNS Canada –– This summer’s erratic weather has taken its toll on plant development in Alberta and parts of western Saskatchewan, according to crop-watchers in those areas. “We have heard that dry conditions have caused plants (peas) to slough off or have the tillers dry off and have lost those heads,” said Barry Yaremcio at […] Read more

Daily Network News

Complexity of being a woman in farming can lead to mental, physical health risks

Federal gov. funds youth employment in agriculture, agri-food

Pulse Weekly: StatCan projects fewer pea and lentil acres

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