Insights and Stories on Manitoba

Hail damage claims skyrocket in Manitoba

Jul. 21, 2016 at 2:30 pm CDT

Commodity News Service Canada — The massive storms that have steamrolled through parts of Manitoba are causing significantly higher than average hail damage claims, according to the Canadian Crop Hail Association. The association’s most recent hail report said the ratio of claims to policies have soared due to storms on […]

Storms trim potential for big Prairie crops

Jul. 13, 2016 at 6:46 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Severe weather causing problems for Manitoba crops

Jun. 27, 2016 at 7:06 pm CDT

By Erin DeBooy

North American sunflowers looking good early

Jun. 17, 2016 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Manitoba hog producers worry as PED continues spread

Jun. 6, 2016 at 5:01 pm CDT

By Erin DeBooy

Rain holds up spraying as weeds thrive in Manitoba

Jun. 2, 2016 at 6:05 pm CDT

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 […]

By Dave Sims

Tories’ ex-ag critic named Manitoba ag minister

May. 3, 2016 at 2:37 pm CDT

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 […]

By Staff

Manitoba ag minister unseated in Tory sweep

Apr. 20, 2016 at 2:08 am CDT

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 […]

By Staff

Farmland fundamentals potentially bearish: FCC

Apr. 11, 2016 at 5:27 pm CDT

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 […]

By Staff

Manitoba farmer gets Cretaceous period fossil named after him

Apr. 8, 2016 at 10:18 am CDT

It isn’t every day a farmer is asked if a fossil can be named after him. But that was exactly what staff from the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre were asking retired southern Manitoba farmer David Lumgair earlier this month. Paleontologists had discovered a new species from a fossil found on […]

By Lorraine Stevenson