News - Weather

The barn manager with Starlight Colony is advising swine producers and transporters to take extra care in ensuring transportation equipment is working properly during extremely cold weather.

The executive director of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians is encouraging pork producers to be aware of the heightened risk of the spread of PED as the weather turns colder.

Manitoba’s chief veterinary officer is encouraging the province’s pork producers to step up their focus on biosecurity as the weather turns colder.

A cereal crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development reports, with the harvest ranging anywhere from 30 percent complete to complete, crop quality is well below average while yields are slightly above average.

A weather and crop specialist with CWB says the frost that’s expected this week will result in reduced crop quality and lost yield, especially in the later seeded crops.

The Manitoba government will purchase 60 new automated weather stations and place them across the province, adding to an existing network to provide additional accurate and detailed weather information.

Manitoba Health, Healthy Living and Seniors is reminding Manitobans to prepare for exposure to heat and ultraviolet rays from the sun.

The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada says the recent extremely wet weather is taking a toll on fall seeded cereal crops.

The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada says weather over the next few weeks will play a key role in determining how well winter cereal crops planted last fall will survive.

Thousands of crashes in the province are the direct result of motorists driving too fast on ice/snow-covered roads, according to Manitoba Public Insurance.