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Manitoba declares “livestock emergency”

Reading Time: 2 minutes Manitoba’s provincial government plans to designate and open up specific Crown lands to house livestock and store farm machinery — and open up otherwise restricted roads to move them — in areas at serious risk of flooding. Provincial Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers on Tuesday declared a “livestock emergency,” during which time provincial ag department staff […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

CN boosts profit, grain handle in Q1

Reading Time: 2 minutes A larger grain handle and higher grain revenue have helped boost Canadian National Railway’s (CN) first-quarter bottom line. Montreal-based CN last week booked profit of $668 million on $2.084 billion in gross revenue for the three months ending March 31, up from $511 million on $1.965 billion in the year-earlier period. Grain and fertilizer revenue […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

It’s too soon to broadcast canola: CCC

Reading Time: 2 minutes Mudding in or broadcasting canola seed won’t help you get the yield benefit you’d otherwise get from seeding early, the Canola Council of Canada warns. In its CanolaWatch newsletter Wednesday, the council grants that early-seeded canola does tend to produce higher yields, “but that performance edge depends on good seed placement and stand establishment.” The […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Cattle tracking won’t slow sale process: Alta. study

Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta’s current traceability platform can be used at cattle auction markets without much or any effect on the rate at which cattle are unloaded or sold, the province reports. The provincial ag department on Tuesday released data from its 10-month Alberta Auction Market Pilot Project, run at six markets in the province between October 2009 […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Cost index for Prairie grain freight rises with fuel bill

Reading Time: 2 minutes Rising fuel prices have led to another hike in the cost index that helps cap how much Canada’s two main railways can charge per year for hauling Prairie grain. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday announced it has approved a 3.5 per cent increase in its volume-related composite price index (VRCPI) to 1.1777 for the […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Canpotex to build Sask. railcar facility

Reading Time: 2 minutes The offshore marketing arm of Saskatchewan’s three potash mining firms plans to build a new $55 million railcar maintenance and staging facility in the province. Canpotex, jointly owned by PotashCorp, Mosaic Co. and Agrium, said Tuesday it will start construction next month on a facility 12 km southwest of Lanigan in the RM of Usborne, […] Read more
General, Machinery, Markets, Weather

The rise of iFarmer

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Three generations ago Canadian farmers got their market information from the local elevator and their weekly farm paper. A generation on, they shushed the kids and strained to hear the markets on the CBC’s noon-hour farm report. Just a generation ago, a handful took the electronic plunge and bought a DTN system that gave them […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Flood forces CN, CP to close Man. rail lines

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Flooding caused by the Red River’s steady rise has forced Canadian Pacific Railway to reroute trains on one Manitoba branch line and to close another, while Canadian National Railway has closed a secondary line. The Manitoba government was building dikes Wednesday across two of CP’s lines to protect the towns of Emerson and Morris against […] Read more
General, Machinery, Weather

Don’t drive across flooding roads

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The only sure way for drivers not to drown when crossing flooded rural roads is not to cross them, says Gordon Giesbrecht, associate dean at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation. Even if a road isn’t washed out — something drivers can’t see — it takes just 18 inches of water to […] Read more

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