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(Video screengrab from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry via YouTube)

Federal fund, Alberta government back irrigation upgrades

Infrastructure Bank lends cash for system improvements

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 10, 2020

Eight irrigation districts in Alberta are set to tap into the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s new $1.5 billion pool of funding earmarked for irrigation, to receive loans worth about $407.5 million. The Alberta and federal governments on Friday announced a total investment of $815 million — including repayable CIB funds, provincial support and irrigation district contributions […] Read more

File photo of Diefenbaker Lake in southern Saskatchewan. (IanChrisGraham/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Machinery

Federal irrigation pledge seen flowing mainly to Prairies

Infrastructure plan also includes promised broadband support

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News October 2, 2020

Prairie provinces will receive the bulk of Ottawa’s $1.5 billion commitment to support irrigation projects, according to federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday launched a three-year, $10 billion infrastructure plan aimed at five different sectors, including agriculture. The $1.5 billion is expected to result in 700,000 acres of irrigated land. […] Read more

Armitage’s irrigation line doubles as an electrified fence during the fall and winter grazing season.

Features, Livestock

Electrified irrigation wheel line offers several benefits

“The electrified wheel line has been a big asset to make our haylands last longer...”

By Piper Whelan November 26, 2018

A rancher in southwestern Alberta has created an innovation that allows an irrigation wheel line to perform double duty. David Armitage, who ranches on his family’s operation at Mountain View, Alta., close to Waterton Lakes National Park, discovered that rather than continually move conventional electric fences to rotationally graze his hayland, he could work with […] Read more

A coffee planter shows his coffee plantation in a farm in Sao Desiderio, Bahia state, Brazil on March 21. (Photo: Reuters/Roberto Samora)

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

By Roberto Samora March 27, 2018

Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Brazil | Reuters –– Farmers tending vast, flat soy and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye can see in northeastern Brazil are finding that coffee crops might provide higher profits in the country’s agricultural frontier. More coffee farms are being developed in the western part of Bahia state, which […] Read more

(Lindsay Irrigation video screengrab via YouTube)

General, Machinery

Ontario power utilities offer farm water pump rebate

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 25, 2018

Ontario farmers buying certain types of high-efficiency water pumping systems for irrigation, horticulture or stock watering could now be up for rebates. Hydro One and Niagara Peninsula Energy (NPEI) on Friday announced the AgriPump rebate program, which the two electricity utilities described as the first plan of its kind in the province. For farmer customers […] Read more

A young commercial date palm planting in California’s Coachella Valley. (RF Lee photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

California rules led to near 25 per cent cut in water use

By Sharon Bernstein April 4, 2016

Sacramento | Reuters –– Residents and businesses in drought-stricken California cut back water use by nearly 25 per cent from June 2015 through the end of February 2016 — enough to supply nearly six million people for a year, officials said Monday. The state’s first ever mandatory cutbacks in water use were imposed by Democratic […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

Blame it on the rain, not the beef industry

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen November 18, 2015

This summer has seen unusual rainfall patterns, low river levels and drought in large parts of Western Canada and the Western States. Some people blame water shortages on the beef industry and are ready to answer the question, “how much water does beef production use?” Unfortunately, these answers are often wrong, highly misleading and based […] Read more

Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District Dam and Headgates on Oldman River near Macleod, Alta.

History, Our History

History: The St. Mary and Milk Rivers Irrigation Development

Reprinted from the November 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff October 15, 2015

History: The St. Mary and Milk Rivers Irrigation Development By P.M. Sauder, M.E.I.C., General Manager, Western Irrigation District, Strathmore, Alta. ‘The St. Mary River rises in the United States in Glacier National Park on the Eastern slope of the main range of the Rocky Mountains, flows North-easterly into Canada, joins the Old Man River near […] Read more

Wheat under irrigation on Ravenshoe Station near Hay, New South Wales. (Arthur Mostead photo courtesy Murray Darling Basin Authority/MDBA.gov.au)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Drought exposes cracks in Australia’s acclaimed water market

By Colin Packham September 20, 2015

Sydney | Reuters — A pioneering Australian scheme to improve the management of water in the world’s driest inhabited continent is facing its first real test as an intensifying El Nino threatens crops and builds tensions between farmers and environmentalists. The three-year old management plan for the Murray-Darling basin, an area twice the size of […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Weather

California curtails some senior water rights due to drought

By Reuters June 12, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters — California’s water board curtailed senior water rights on Friday in the state’s Delta, San Joaquin and Sacramento regions due to drought, in the first move of its kind during the current drought, officials said. The curtailment affects more than 100 senior water rights holders, with most of those located near […] Read more

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U.S. grains: Corn rises after setting contract lows on favorable US crop prospects

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Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle extend rally to new highs

U.S. grains: Corn rises after setting contract lows on favorable US crop prospects

CBOT weekly: USDA/weather in focus for corn and soybeans

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Federal fund, Alberta government back irrigation upgrades

Federal irrigation pledge seen flowing mainly to Prairies

Electrified irrigation wheel line offers several benefits

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

Ontario power utilities offer farm water pump rebate

California rules led to near 25 per cent cut in water use

Blame it on the rain, not the beef industry

History: The St. Mary and Milk Rivers Irrigation Development

Drought exposes cracks in Australia’s acclaimed water market

California curtails some senior water rights due to drought

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