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USDA forecasts smaller drop in 2024 farm income

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Chicago | Reuters – U.S. farm income will fall for a second consecutive year in 2024, but not as much as previously expected as prices of livestock and egg products boom and production expenses ease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday. Declining farm income could ripple across the rural economy in a presidential […] Read more
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Reuters

U.S. to spend $7.3 billion on rural clean energy projects

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Reuters – President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday said the U.S. will spend $7.3 billion from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act to fund clean energy projects helmed by rural electric cooperatives. The 16 funded projects will reduce energy costs and increase reliability for rural Americans, who tend to pay more for energy, the White House said. […] Read more
wheat july 2024
Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Bumper sticklers

Crop forecasting is a thankless job, but necessary

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They were good calls at the time. Just a few weeks ago a clutch of farm writers from across Canada converged on Glacier FarmMedia’s Ag in Motion show west of Saskatoon. Some of those writers, myself included, drove past quite a lot of handsome crops en route. In some stretches, the usually blue watery mirages […] Read more
Chuck Strahl, shown here speaking in the House of Commons in 2002, died Aug. 13 at age 67.
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Former federal ag minister Chuck Strahl dies at 67

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A memorial service is planned for Aug. 23 in Chilliwack, B.C. for Chuck Strahl, the logger turned politician who served about a year and a half as federal agriculture minister in Stephen Harper’s government, helping carry several of its policy plans through to completion. Strahl died Tuesday in Chilliwack at age 67, ending “a courageous […] Read more
File photo of a Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) sign at a picket outside a CN worksite in Winnipeg in 2009.
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Federal labour board ruling opens door to rail strike

CN, CPKC warn of lockouts starting Aug. 22 unless progress is made

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Glacier FarmMedia — Workers at Canada’s two major railways could be on strike or locked out as early as Aug. 22, following a decision by the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) issued Aug. 9 on the safety implications of a stoppage. Following a request in May from the federal government for such a review, the […] Read more
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Weather

Prairie forecast: Cooler weather coming, but little precipitation

Forecast issued July 31, covering July 31 to August 7, 2024

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It's looking like we'll soon see an end to the hot conditions of the last few weeks as upper ridging collapses and the upper flow across the Prairies moves to a straight west-to-east flow. Under this pattern, we should see textbook summer conditions. The only downside is there aren't many chances of precipitation.
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Weather

Prairie forecast: More typical summer weather

Forecast issued July 10, covering July 10 to 17, 2024

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For this forecast period, it looks like the upper ridge will slowly flatten and drop southwards as a series of weak lows track across the northern Prairies. This will result in a reduction in the extreme temperatures. Daytime highs and overnight lows should fall back to more seasonable values.
Les Henry.
Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Thanks, Les

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We begin with sad news for readers who haven’t already heard: Les Henry, a soil scientist and university professor dedicated to the improvement of Prairie farmland, and a mainstay in these pages for almost 50 years, left us on June 14 at age 83, ending a long fight with congestive heart failure. We can defer […] Read more

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