By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Nov 1, 2023 | 4:12 PM

A wanted poster for a wild pig is making its way around Manitoba.

Squeal On Pigs Manitoba is asking for residents between Wawanesa and Alexander to be on the lookout for a large male wild pig that has been spotted in the area.

The campaign is a partnership between Manitoba Pork and the federal and provincial governments to bring awareness about invasive wild pigs.

In 2022, there were 127 sightings resulting in 122 pigs being euthanized.

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It’s the end of an era for a northern Ontario cheese plant,as Gay Lea Foods Co-operative closed the Thornloe Cheese doors on Monday.

The cheese and milk skimming plant has been in operation in some form since the 1940s, and was taken over by the co-op in 2019.

Mike Langdon, with Gay Lea said the plant had become a food safety and health risk that would require more than $10 million in upgrades to meet modern, current standards.

The plant is serviced by 19 dairy farms.

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Climate FieldView will integrate with Combyne, a recently acquired crop marketing management tool.

Grain farmers in Canada and the United States will be able to connect their agronomic data in FieldView to their marketing data in Combyne, enabling them to make more informed decisions, according to Brandon Rinkenberger, Chief Customer Officer for Climate LLC and Digital Farming at Bayer.

“From crop planning through crop marketing, farmers should be able to connect digital platforms that support their operations,” Rinkenberger said. “The new integration between Combyne and FieldView provides our customers with further capabilities to put their data to work saving time by eliminating double data entry, increasing confidence when making timely sale decisions, and ultimately improving marketing outcomes for farmers.”

Once initiated by a farmer, Combyne’s platform can be incorporated in actual in-field data from FieldView for a more accurate picture of current year harvest totals and projections for future years to easily update crop contract and storage positions and enable up-to-date crop marketing decisions.

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