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Solid footing for Manitoba’s winter cereal crops

By Alexis Stockford, Ralph Pearce October 16, 2023

Manitoba’s winter cereals are off to a good start. Anne Kirk, cereals specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, and Alex Griffiths, agronomist with the winter wheat program of Ducks Unlimited Canada, both report plenty of fields in good shape, particularly those seeded in the prime window in early to mid-September. “We have had some moisture this September,[...]

Cereals, Local news

A thorn in the side of oat growers

By Alexis Stockford July 24, 2019

Oat growers may want to gauge the distance to the nearest woody stream bed the next time they choose a variety. That’s one of the messages sent out during this year’s Crop Diagnostic School in Carman in the first two weeks of July. Why it matters: Manitoba’s most popular oat varieties have either been downgraded[...]

Cereals, News

U.S. wheats get limited nod for forage use

By Alexis Stockford March 26, 2019

A British Columbia company has got a bit of breathing room in its efforts to promote forage wheats, but it’s not necessarily setting a precedent. Premier Pacific Seeds successfully argued its case to gain a limited interim registration for four U.S. soft winter wheat cultivars (Yamhill, Madsen, Kaseberg and Brudage) were better suited than any[...]

Cereals, Crops

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

By Alexis Stockford March 25, 2019

The University of Manitoba’s farm-based organic wheat-breeding program is ready to start towards commercialization, but the body responsible for recommending new genetics to the CFIA says there is still work to be done. Jamie Larsen, chair of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT), says a proposed trial plan submitted this year[...]

Cereals, Crops

Setting up for success as planting season approaches for winter wheat

By Alexis Stockford August 22, 2018

Manitoba’s winter wheat woes this year may have some lessons for the coming crop. Ken Gross, agronomist with the Western Winter Wheat Initiative, says fields that survived their dry planting, harsh winter and hot, dry, growing season this year might offer insight for what will likely be similarly moisture-starved conditions this fall. Winter wheat acreage[...]

Cereals, Crops

Feeding yield, not disease

By Alexis Stockford March 13, 2018

Agronomist Peter Johnson thinks fungicide and nitrogen are a match made in heaven and a late fungicide pass may help bolster yield in wheat. Johnson, of RealAgriculture, turned his talk to wheat yield during the recent BASF Knowledge Harvest event in Brandon. The cereal has become a gap filler in between crops like soybeans and[...]

Cereals, Crops, Local news

Aphid-borne virus found in Manitoba oat fields

By Alexis Stockford August 10, 2017

Oat fields in central Manitoba are fighting off barley yellow dwarf virus. “We see it from year to year,” Manitoba Agriculture field crop pathologist Holly Derksen said. “I think this is probably the most severe that I’ve seen it in fields, but that being said, it’s historically been present in Manitoba and in varying levels.”[...]

Cereals, Crops

DeRuycks keep rolling with organic cleaning and milling

By Alexis Stockford June 14, 2017

Dan and Fran DeRuyck’s organic grain-cleaning plant is one of the first things a visitor sees when they arrive at Top of the Hill Farm, south of Treherne, Man. The large shed dominates the west side of the yard, bordered by bins which, on any given week, might be filled with anything from wheat, oats,[...]

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Prairie wheat bids fall with U.S. futures

British company Antler Bio brings epigenetics to dairy farms

Canada eyes Mercosur trade pact to reduce U.S. reliance, minister says

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Solid footing for Manitoba’s winter cereal crops

A thorn in the side of oat growers

U.S. wheats get limited nod for forage use

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

Setting up for success as planting season approaches for winter wheat

Feeding yield, not disease

Aphid-borne virus found in Manitoba oat fields

DeRuycks keep rolling with organic cleaning and milling

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