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Grow less maize and produce more food

By Laura Rance-Unger March 2, 2015

Christian Thierfelder strides into a plot of maize, reaches down, and scratches through the mulch with his fingers to grab a clump of soil. Holding it up, the senior agronomist with CIMMYT’s Harare field station lets it crumble through his fingers — it is moist but not muddy, and the decaying plant material gives it[...]

Cereals, Crops, News

Dropping the hoe and doubling the yield

By Laura Rance-Unger February 26, 2015

It’s raining, but that doesn’t stop Thomas Nkhunda from leading a group of visitors into his fields where he describes how he manages plots demonstrating the benefits of conservation agriculture. Rain isn’t unusual at this time of year. After all, it’s the rainy season in Malawi. What’s unusual is the fact that the rains they[...]

Crops, International news

Mulch, mice and ‘the man problem’ hold up CA adoption

By Laura Rance-Unger March 5, 2015

After three years of producing maize using conservation agriculture, Nkasauka Nthala is a convert. The yields from her tiny .16-hectare plot of maize grown using direct seeding instead of hoeing were 166 per cent above the yields of maize grown under conventional practices. Yet only a small portion of the farm she shares with her[...]

Crops, Pulses

Project shows link between healthy soils and healthy people

By Laura Rance-Unger March 24, 2015

A little yellow seed is sprouting big changes for farming families here in the Great Rift Valley, within reach of the Hawassa University extension services. Chickpeas grown as a double crop after maize are boosting families’ nutrition, providing extra income and helping improve the soils. Farmers here have traditionally grown one crop of maize, tef[...]

Crops, Opinion

Editorial: Changing how we think

By Laura Rance-Unger January 12, 2015

Back in the days when Prairie farmers were still in the experimental phase of adopting what is now known as conservation agriculture, I remember interviewing a farmer who had gone all the way and embraced zero tillage. He said it was an exercise in frustration bordering on failure until he realized the transition involved more[...]

Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: The (not so) great farm smackdown

By Laura Rance-Unger February 9, 2015

If you’ve ever watched “smackdown” wrestling on television, you have to admit it’s entertaining, in a perverse sort of way, watching those muscle-bound burly sorts strutting around pounding their chests like apes and shouting insults. Even when they are throwing punches or tossing each other out of the ring, it’s pretty obvious that it’s all[...]

Crops, International news

In Zambia, investing in farmers keeps kids in school

By Laura Rance-Unger March 6, 2015

Juliette, the eldest daughter of Olipa Tembo and her husband Dickson Nkata, came home from school early one day. She was crying. The child, who would have been about eight at the time, had walked the four kilometres to the local school, only to have the teacher promptly send her home again. The family had[...]

Opinion

Editorial: The real deal to watch

By Laura Rance-Unger December 15, 2014

There has been quite the media hullabaloo lately over rumours that a large multinational based in the U.S. might be closing in on a deal with CWB, the much abbreviated version of the former Canadian Wheat Board. Whether this rumoured deal is a partnership or acquisition depends on who’s talking, but in reality, it doesn’t[...]

Opinion

Editorial: Farmland — always a good buy?

By Laura Rance-Unger February 2, 2015

Keep renting, or buy that land now before it gets even more expensive? Alberta farm management adviser Merle Good provided some perspective on that for an attentive crowd at Ag Days last week. So far, it’s been a truism that farmland is a good investment. That’s not to say it is always the right investment[...]

Beef cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Winning at the WTO for real

By Laura Rance-Unger November 3, 2014

Canadian livestock producers won something to crow about but little else in the latest WTO ruling to support their claim that the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling rules are unfair and discriminatory. The ruling was accompanied by the now-familiar volley of press releases from Canadian livestock and meat producers, and more sabre-rattling by federal politicians about[...]

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Grow less maize and produce more food

Dropping the hoe and doubling the yield

Mulch, mice and ‘the man problem’ hold up CA adoption

Project shows link between healthy soils and healthy people

Editorial: Changing how we think

Editorial: The (not so) great farm smackdown

In Zambia, investing in farmers keeps kids in school

Editorial: The real deal to watch

Editorial: Farmland — always a good buy?

Editorial: Winning at the WTO for real

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