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Manitoba pledges more law on nutrient loading

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Reading Time: 2 minutes More legislation to cut nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg and other water bodies is among the shorter-term commitments in the Manitoba government’s latest throne speech. In the speech, which Lt.-Gov. Janice Filmon delivered Monday, Premier Greg Selinger pledges to “work with all partners to reduce nutrient loading” in Lake Winnipeg and work to prevent further spread of […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soybeans fall on good crop weather

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell on Friday, pressured by improving crop conditions in the U.S. Plains and Midwest while corn and soybeans dropped on beneficial crop weather in South America, traders said. The burgeoning harvest prospects threatened to add to the already ample global stockpiles of all three commodities. […] Read more
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Crops, Weather

Manitoba winter fertilizing ban back on

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Snow’s arrival throughout Manitoba means no more extensions for the province’s farmers to apply winter fertilizer or manure. The province said Thursday its second extension, which was to run until the end of the day, has been rescinded, and the winter nutrient application ban is in place effective immediately, given “recent snowfall accumulations.” The winter […] Read more
Average Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies, in degrees Celsius, for the week centred on Nov. 4. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)
Beef Cattle, Crops, Reuters, Weather

El Nino strengthening, to be among biggest on record: WMO

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Geneva | Reuters — The El Nino weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the end of the year and become one of the strongest on record, the United Nations’ weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this El Nino was already “strong […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Weather

Warm Prairie soils delay fertilizing ban, winter weights

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba’s winter ban on nutrient application has been postponed, again, while Saskatchewan has postponed its move to winter weights on its highways, due to warmer-than-average soil temperatures. Manitoba’s water stewardship department announced Friday it will further extend its nutrient application window until midnight, Nov. 19. Variances to Manitoba’s winter fertilizing ban — which typically runs […] Read more
Agri-Trend CEO Rob Saik. (Jennifer Paige photo)
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Trimble to buy consulting firm Agri-Trend

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Reading Time: 3 minutes GPS and precision farming firm Trimble is set to buy the Canadian operator of North America’s largest network of independent agricultural consultants. Publicly traded, U.S.-based Trimble, which specializes in GPS and other location services, including the collection and management of on-farm data and services for precision farming, announced Tuesday it will buy Red Deer-based, privately-held […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Crops, Hogs, Weather

Manitoba extends fertilizing deadline to Saturday

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Reading Time: < 1 minute A warmer-than-usual November has allowed Manitoba’s conservation and water stewardship department to delay its winter fertilizing ban until Saturday (Nov. 14). With soil temperatures not yet at the freezing point, the province announced Monday it would extend its deadline for spreading of phosphorus and/or nitrogen, including synthetic fertilizers and/or manure, to Nov. 14 from Nov. […] Read more
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Crops, Weather

Crunch time for Manitoba producers to fertilize

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The clock is ticking for Manitoba producers who wish to lay down nitrogen or phosphorous on their fields. Wet conditions in many parts of the province are making it tough for farmers to get their machines onto fields, according to Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers. “We just drove from Winnipeg […] Read more
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Crops, Weather

Cereals North America: Shift to La Nina may hurt yields

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | CNS Canada –– El Nino weather patterns are typically beneficial to North American grain yields, but cut into the production prospects of key Eastern Hemisphere demand markets, according to presenters at this week’s Cereals North America conference. However, an expected shift toward La Nina conditions by late 2016 could see North American grain yields […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Heavy rains threaten Australia’s east coast wheat crop – traders

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sydney/Reuters – Heavy rain falling along Australia’s east coast could put up to half of wheat production from the country’s second largest grain producing state at risk of quality downgrades, traders said on Wednesday. As much as 100 millimetres (3.9 inches) of rain is expected to fall across New South Wales on Wednesday and Thursday, forecasts […] Read more

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