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Bruce Burnett, Director of Weather and Markets with Glacier Farm Media says that's mainly driven by various factors affecting the broader oilseed market.

Rainfall across the prairies and even provincially has been quite variable this year.

Some areas have seen some pretty wicked storms bringing heavy rain, high winds and hail.

The Canadian Crop Hail Association says storm activity across the prairies in the last two weeks of June resulted in farmers filing well over 2000 hail claims.

According to the report mid-June thunderstorms dropped pea- to toonie-sized hail across Western Canada.  

Golf Manitoba is hosting the Junior boys and girls championships at Quarry Oaks and Director of Communications and Development Brian Munz is thrilled with how things are going with day two under way Tuesday and the final round set for Wednesday.

World wheat stocks could climb to 271 million tonnes by the end of 2025-26, up from 264 million tonnes at the end of 2024-25

There will be plenty of wheat in the world in 2025-26, say analysts.

“As we enter mid-year Northern Hemisphere harvest, a larger-than-expected crop is expected to limit the upside in global wheat prices,” Dennis Voznesenski, agricultural economist with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said in his recent Agri Commodity Weekly Alert.

Funeral For:  Ruth Enns nee Giesbrecht 
Funeral Date: July 10, 2025 
Ruth Enns nee Giesbrecht, 98, of Saskatoon formerly of Altona, passed away Wednesday, July 2nd at Warman Special Care Home. She is survived by 5 daughters, 3 sons, and their families. She was predeceased by her husband John. 
The celebration of life for Ruth Enns nee Giesbrecht will be held Thursday, July 10th at 2:30pm at Neubergthal Commons Barn with burial prior to the service at 1:30pm at Weidenfeld Cemetery. 
Donations may be made to MCC. 
Arrangements by Wiebe Funeral Home, Altona.  

What began as a small gathering of five women on the eve of the COVID-19 lockdown has blossomed into a vital support hub for women in the Altona area. Robyn Sierks, Bertha Wiebe, and Nadine Klassen, co-founders of the Love Well Women’s Drop-In Centre, reflected on how it started.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is headed off to Japan and Malaysia as the Carney government shapes its diplomatic and trade approach to the Indo-Pacific region.

Anand will meet with her Japanese counterpart in Tokyo this week as the two finalize an agreement on sharing defence information and boosting trade.

On Thursday and Friday, Anand will take part in a meeting with the Association of South East Asian Nations, or ASEAN, in Malaysia.

One of the Morden Area Foundation’s objectives is to enrich the city. 

On July 2nd, for the first time, the organization did so in a spring granting session that saw significant funding returned to the community.  

Sue Nelson, chair of the Morden Area Foundation, said that the organization usually holds its annual fall granting session near Christmas, but this year, it added an extra session. 

Darlingford and its surrounding community held its 104th annual Memorial Service, honouring community members who served and lost their lives in World War I and World War II. Held in the Darlingford Memorial Park and in front of the accompanying memorial building, the morning offered reflection and reverence for not only the lives lost in the past, but also as a reminder for our current state of affairs.  

In May of last year, Winkler Mayor Henry Siemens shared that they had been working with MTI on coming up with a plan to fix Main St. as quickly as possible, with the City doing some work at the time to simply keep the area drivable, especially heading northbound, about a block from the Highway 14 corner.