News - Agriculture

The future of agriculture education looks brighter thanks to a pivotal three-year funding boost from the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) to Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba (AITC-M).

The 47th Annual Manitoba Ag Days has launched, celebrating all things produced on the Prairies at Manitoba’s largest indoor farm exhibition and showcasing technology, equipment, expertise and advancements in agriculture.

The Manitoba government has announced that the amendments to the Agricultural Crown Lands (ACL) Leases and Permits Regulation are now in effect.

The NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Swine Welfare observes the public’s scrutiny of animal care and ethics of production can only be expected to increase.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba have expanded eligibility and are providing funding under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership’s carbon sequestration and grasslands resilience stream of the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program to support additional Manitoba producers.

Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre has released the 2023 Manitoba Basins Fall Conditions Report, which indicates soil moisture levels at the time of freeze-up, precipitation received over the fall and summer, and river and lake levels are all normal to below normal throughout Manitoba.

The General Manager of Manitoba Pork is encouraging farmers to ask the right questions of government. Manitoba Pork General Manager Cam Dahl says the provincial and federal governments need to be fighting to make sure our trade corridors, whether to the U.S. or around the world, are not arbitrarily being closed.

Effective immediately, the Manitoba government is increasing the temporary rent reduction scheduled for Agricultural Crown Land (ACL) forage leases to 55 per cent from 33 per cent for the 2024 growing season in recognition of the hardships producers have faced in recent years.

The Western College of Veterinary Medicine advises, with flu season on us once again, there are signs of a return of the H1N1 virus that caused a global pandemic in 2009.

Despite this year’s delayed start to planting and extremely variable moisture, Manitoba Agriculture reports crop yields and quality for the 2023 growing season have been average.