Manitoba Archives - Page 94 of 102

Learning to make the tough calls

The right time to seed, and what can be done with all of these rocks?

By Toban Dyck July 5, 2016

I’d like to write about wheat. I’d like to write about how in labs across the world, people who know how to do such things are working on manipulating the crop to withstand Roundup. But I won’t. I want you to think about it, though. I’m not anti-GMO. I’m not anti-science. It’s not me, one […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Severe weather causing problems for Manitoba crops

By GFM Network News June 27, 2016

CNS Canada — Manitoba was pummelled over the weekend with heavy rains, winds and even hail in some areas, leaving various crops around the province a little beat up. “It’s a little too early to say what the final impact will be, but crops that saw that severe weather system did see some crop damage,” […] Read more

Crops

North American sunflowers looking good early

By GFM Network News June 18, 2016

CNS Canada –– Sunflower crops in key growing regions of North America are in relatively good shape early in the season, according to reports. However, those good conditions have put some nearby pressure on values, with spot pricing expected to take some direction from the weather and acreage reports over the next few weeks. Sunflower […] Read more

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock

Manitoba hog producers worry as PED continues spread

By GFM Network News June 6, 2016

CNS Canada — Hog industry officials are increasingly concerned how Manitoba producers will be impacted after another hog farm in southeastern Manitoba confirmed a case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) on Saturday. The province, which until last week hadn’t reported any new on-farm cases since January 2015, logged new cases in the southeast on May […] Read more

A Canada thistle seedling. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops, Weather

Rain holds up spraying as weeds thrive in Manitoba

By GFM Network News June 2, 2016

CNS Canada –– A steady dose of rain to start the week has put a crimp on herbicide applications across Manitoba. While weeds weren’t noticeable a few weeks ago due to the relative dryness, they’re definitely becoming more noticeable, according to crop watchers. “We know that with the rain and warmer temperatures, both the crops […] Read more

Ralph Eichler. (File photo by Dave Bedard)

Livestock

Tories’ ex-ag critic named Manitoba ag minister

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 3, 2016

Manitoba’s incoming Progressive Conservative government has tapped one of its former critics on the agriculture and food file as its new minister of agriculture. Ralph Eichler, the MLA for the Interlake-area constituency of Lakeside since 2003, was sworn in Tuesday along with Premier Brian Pallister and 11 other cabinet ministers at Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for […] Read more

Rod Lanier (l) will be growing hemp again on his farm near Lethbridge. Jeff and Ebony Prosko (r), who farm in Rose Valley, are contracting a helicopter service for fungicide applications this year.

Crops, Features

Farmers just waiting on weather

The farmers surveyed for this Farmer Panel are ready to hit the field for spring seeding

By Lee Hart April 26, 2016

Farmers in Manitoba were waiting for the snow to stop, a producer in central Saskatchewan was probably a month away from getting to fieldwork and in southern Alberta a producer was planning to start seeding durum in a few days (and some of his colleagues already had seed in the ground). That’s just how variable […] Read more

Manitoba’s incumbent agriculture minister Ron Kostyshyn, shown here in March last year, was one of 12 ministers in Premier Greg Selinger’s cabinet defeated in their constituencies in the April 19 election. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Shannon VanRaes)

Crops

Manitoba ag minister unseated in Tory sweep

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 20, 2016

Manitoba’s incumbent agriculture minister was among the casualties in Tuesday’s provincial election as Brian Pallister’s Progressive Conservatives swept the New Democrats from office. Ron Kostyshyn lost his seat Tuesday to Tory candidate Rick Wowchuk, a schoolteacher from Swan River, by a spread of over 1,500 votes. Kostyshyn, a cow-calf producer from Ethelbert, Man., had been […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Farmland fundamentals potentially bearish: FCC

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 11, 2016

Having tracked more double-digit percentage increases in Canadian farmland prices through 2015, Canada’s federal farm lender sees factors lining up for those values to retreat. Farm Credit Canada’s latest Farmland Values Report, released Monday, logged a 10.1 per cent increase in average farmland values in Canada in 2015, down from a 14.3 per cent rise in […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans

Manitoba soybean acreage looks to inch upward

By GFM Network News April 5, 2016

CNS Canada — U.S. farmers may be seeding fewer soybean acres this spring but expectations for the crop remain relatively steady north of the border, according to Francois Labelle, executive director of Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers. “Our first indications are that acreage will be the same as last year to up a little bit,” […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

GFM Network News