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Manitoba farm group named finalist for national water innovation award

The Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association has been noted for their collaboration on their Aquanty hydrological modelling project

The Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association’s Aquanty Project for local hydrological modelling has earned them one of three finalist spots for a national award from Water Canada.

As the hotter planet unleashes more heat waves, drought and flooding, the European Union is developing its first Europe-wide analysis of climate-related risks to try to ensure future EU policies and spending take them into account. | File photo

EU chided on climate

BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) — Europe is in urgent need of stronger measures to prepare health-care systems, farming and critical infrastructure for increasingly severe climate change, a draft report by the European Environment Agency said. As the hotter planet unleashes more heat waves, drought and flooding, the European Union is developing its first Europe-wide analysis of […] Read more


Floodwater is up to the roof of many houses, a large multi-silo grain handling facility is in the background.

Ukrainian crops at risk after dam collapses

KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) — Ukraine could lose several million tons of crops because of flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in the south of the country, the Ukrainian agriculture ministry said June 7. “Without a source of water supply, it is impossible to grow vegetables. Grain and oilseeds will be grown using […] Read more

A drone shot above and in front of a combine with its lights on harvesting wheat near sunset in Alberta.

No worries over wet wheat

China's prime wheat-growing region received a deluge of rain at the end of harvest. Reuters reports that fields of ripe wheat in Henan province were flooded the week ending May 28. That province produced 28 percent of last year's wheat crop.



A photo of the Mississippi River from last fall showing how low the water level was due to drought.

Flooding stops Mississippi River barge traffic

Closures that could last for weeks will force grain and fertilizer shippers to find more costly transportation alternatives

CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has halted barge traffic across a wide swath of the upper Mississippi River, it said April 27, as record winter snowfall is melting and flooding into waterways. The closures will force grain and fertilizer shippers to find alternative, potentially more costly, transportation by truck or rail, […] Read more

Farmers work in a flooded field, following rains and floods during the monsoons in Mehar, Pakistan.  |  Reuters/Akhtar Soomro photo

Rain takes grain, crops on 2 million acres in Pakistan

More than 1,200 reported dead and millions displaced as the Asian nation continues to be assaulted by flood waters

DADU, Pakistan (Reuters) – Southern Pakistan braced for yet more flooding on Thursday as a surge of water flowed down the Indus River, threatening further devastation in a country already a third inundated, in a growing disaster blamed on climate change. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains have triggered floods that have […] Read more


Grant and Amanda Bouwman were able to move all 450 of their dairy cattle out of harm’s way before the floodwaters arrived. | Bouwman family photo

‘We’re going to come back from it’

B.C. dairy farm family faces ‘heck of a cleanup’ after making emotional decision to relocate cattle as deluge approached

The Bouwman family is counting its blessings after a devastating flood decimated British Columbia’s Fraser Valley. “We got out. We’re safe. We didn’t lose animals,” said Grant Bouwman, who operates the Mardelen Holsteins Ltd. dairy farm with his wife, Amanda, in Yarrow, B.C., situated between Abbotsford and Chilliwack. “We’re going to have a heck of […] Read more

The B.C. Agriculture Council said donations to support farmers can be made at its website, bcac.ca. It had received a total of $100,000 as of Nov. 19. | Screencap via Twitter/@TranBC

Flooding continues as B.C. farmers brace for more

Agriculture in the lower mainland will take time to rebuild as water continues to pour into the province

British Columbia braced itself for further rainfall as farmers dealt with the aftermath of unprecedented flooding, with the provincial government emphasizing the generosity of Canadians who have donated to the Red Cross. “This is historic weather intensified by climate change,” B.C. Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said Nov. 28. As a […] Read more