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What does your underwear say about your soils?

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A lot, providing you bury it in a field, according to Ontario farmer Blake Vince, a cover crop and soil health advocate and Nuffield Scholar. Doing so will help you understand what’s happening beneath your feet, he says. “We understand things we can see,” Vince said at the recent Canadian Forage and Grasslands conference in[...]
Crops

The outlook for 2016: not good, but not a disaster: FCC

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Sharpen your pencils for the coming year, says the chief economist for Farm Credit Canada. “We all know that we are in a sluggish economic environment. It is not going to be a good year but it won’t be a disastrous year,” J.P. Gervais told FCC’s Ag Outlook 2016 event in Brandon on Feb. 9.[...]
Crops

Cover cropping improves land and bank balance

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Despite not having cattle on his operation, Blake Vince says he is still a livestock farmer. “Where my livestock are is below my feet and sadly we forget that. The soil is alive, it is a collection of living organisms,” Vince, a Canadian Nuffield Scholar and fifth-generation Ontario farmer, said during a presentation at the[...]
Crops, Forages

CFGA focuses on increased forage production

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The forage industry is looking to increase productivity on Canada’s forage acres by showcasing the adoption of high-performance production systems. “If every pasture, piece of pasture or piece of native rangeland increased its productivity by 15 per cent with good forage management, we could make some massive impacts environmentally and economically,” said Cedric McLeod, executive[...]
Crops, Local news

Keeping soybeans at home to be fed

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Many of Manitoba’s hog barns are surrounded by soybean fields, but the soymeal inside them may have come from hundreds of miles away in the U.S. That prompted Keystone Agricultural Producers members at their recent summer advisory meeting here to support the Brandon Chamber of Commerce’s efforts to encourage industry to construct a soybean-processing plant[...]
Cereals, Crops

Waterlogging stress can take a bite out of barley

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Don’t get barley’s feet cold and wet — you won’t like the results. A spate of recent wet years and the crop’s known dislike for these conditions has a research scientist from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada looking at excess moisture and the crop. “Barley is known to have cold feet and to be susceptible to[...]
Crops, Local news

Conservation districts aim to improve water infiltration

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The best place to store water is where it falls. That’s the conclusion of four Manitoba conservation districts that are banding together to launch a new project that will demonstrate how to build organic matter in soil and make it a sink for rainfall and meltwater. “Our surface water management strategy has been built on[...]
Crops, Local news

Soy boom boosts bulk pedigreed seed storage

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An increase in the number of bulk pedigreed seed storage facilities in Western Canada is keeping inspectors busy, says the executive director of the Canadian Seed Institute (CSI). “We are seeing an increase in bulk storage facilities right now. We believe this is largely due to the increase in the movement of soybeans in Western[...]
Crops, News

CSGA prepares for regulatory review

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With a seed regulatory review looming, the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association (CSGA) has been working to strengthen its in-house capability to be ready for whatever may be coming down the pipeline. “The seed regulatory review is a standard occurrence from the federal government and is scheduled for two to three years from now,” said Norm[...]

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