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Canadian Western Agribition is just days away

Agribition President Kim Hextall says they're excited to be back for another year, in person and with no masks. 

While the show has expanded over the years, the core of the show remains livestock. 

Hextall says Agribition is known for bringing together the best of the best in top quality livestock together in one location, and this year is no different.

"Our beef numbers, as far as our purebred animals, we are hitting our five year average. So, we are really happy with that, people are coming to town. They're excited to be bringing their livestock to town, bringing their cattle to town, showing their genetics. And of course, we also have sheep, bison, alpaca, as well as some competition for horses."

Agribition over the years has become much more than just a livestock show and sale.

The six day event also features an agricultural trade show, the Grain Expo, an Indigenous Agriculture Summit, the Family Ag Pavillion, as well as top quality entertainment.

She notes also back for this year is the Maple Leaf Finals Rodeo, the Ranch Rodeo, Horse Pulls, Chore Horses, Stock and Cattle dog competitions. 

Hextall says the youth are our future leaders and play a big part in Agribition from helping out in the stalls, showing animals and taking part in the Canadian National 4H Judging Competition, Youth Showmanship and Team Grooming events.

Agribition is a key learning experience as well, welcoming thousands of kids through the registered education program which includes in-person and virtual learning opportunities. 

She says as always Agribition has something for everyone to enjoy.

The show attracts exhibitors and participants from across Canada, the U-S and around the world.

This year's show runs Monday, November 28th to Saturday, December 3 at REAL District in Regina.

Source : Pembinavalley Online

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A new peer reviewed study looks at the generally unrecognized risk of heat waves surpassing the threshold for enzyme damage in wheat.

Most studies that look at crop failure in the main food growing regions (breadbaskets of the planet) look at temperatures and droughts in the historical records to assess present day risk. Since the climate system has changed, these historical based risk analysis studies underestimate the present-day risks.

What this new research study does is generate an ensemble of plausible scenarios for the present climate in terms of temperatures and precipitation, and looks at how many of these plausible scenarios exceed the enzyme-breaking temperature of 32.8 C for wheat, and exceed the high stress yield reducing temperature of 27.8 C for wheat. Also, the study considers the possibility of a compounded failure with heat waves in both regions simultaneously, this greatly reducing global wheat supply and causing severe shortages.

Results show that the likelihood (risk) of wheat crop failure with a one-in-hundred likelihood in 1981 has in today’s climate become increased by 16x in the USA winter wheat crop (to one-in-six) and by 6x in northeast China (to one-in-sixteen).

The risks determined in this new paper are much greater than that obtained in previous work that determines risk by analyzing historical climate patterns.

Clearly, since the climate system is rapidly changing, we cannot assume stationarity and calculate risk probabilities like we did traditionally before.

We are essentially on a new planet, with a new climate regime, and have to understand that everything is different now.