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Total seeding progress in Manitoba is sitting at about 88 per cent complete, compared to the three-year average of 94 per cent for this time of year.
 
High wind speeds over the last week, coupled with frost on May 30th hurt or delayed crops in many areas.
 
Dry surface soils together with wet or saturated subsurface soils have combined for difficult emergence in some crops.
 
Flea beetle spraying is ongoing.
 
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How the corn-soy diet transformed swine nutrition

Video: How the corn-soy diet transformed swine nutrition

At the 2026 ASAS Midwest Section meeting, Dr. Robert Easter, professor emeritus of swine nutrition at the University of Illinois, spoke at the U.S. Soy sponsored Swine Application Symposium, offering a historical perspective on one of the most important developments in modern pig production: the corn-soybean meal diet. What today is considered a foundational feeding strategy was not always obvious or even accepted.