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Carbon key to building resilience on farms

By Laura Rance-Unger November 21, 2016

Farmers often see themselves as feeding the world, but farmers attending the Organic Connections conference here recently were told the first step towards that goal is feeding the “starving and homeless” micro-organisms in their soil. “Your job is to feed them and maintain their habitat,” Kristine Nichols, the chief scientist with the Rodale Institute told[...]

Comment, Opinion

Farmers’ focus must shift from yields to soil health

By Laura Rance-Unger September 25, 2017

A funny thing happens whenever talk turns to how to make farming more sustainable. As various options for improving how agriculture treats the natural environment are discussed, someone inevitably brings up the “yield penalty” farmers and society would pay. That penalty is seen as the gap between conventional methods using tillage and high rates of[...]

Crops

Degraded soils cost farmers billions annually

By Laura Rance-Unger September 19, 2017

Farmers have reduced the amount of soil they lose through annual cropping practices, but they continue to carry a costly legacy of degraded soils, a University of Manitoba soil scientist says. David Lobb used crop production data and computer models to estimate how much lost productivity has occurred over the past four decades due to[...]

Crops, Markets

Organic producers could see net profit levels range from $100 to $300 per acre

By Laura Rance-Unger, Lorraine Stevenson February 1, 2016

Organic production is one way for small farmers to improve their viability, an analyst told a seminar at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon. Roy Arnott, who does annual cost-of-production budgets for MAFRD, said the gross revenue over operating costs in conventional agriculture leaves a margin of 20 to 40 per cent. That margin is what[...]

Crops, Opinion

Editorial: Demand pull nature of organic foods can't be ignored

By Laura Rance-Unger May 26, 2015

Imagine farming in a world in which you could control your production costs, receive a premium for what you produce, and where demand exceeds the supply. That might seem like the impossible dream in a year like this one, when it appears it doesn’t matter what crop a farmer grows, there are very few opportunities[...]

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Changing times, changing tastes

By Laura Rance-Unger August 3, 2017

It’s not unusual for grownup kids to call ahead before coming home to give the resident cook time to prepare their special requests, usually for the likes of apple pie that fill the house with delicious aromas and the heart with warmth. But this time, the request was unusual. “If you’re bored this weekend, could[...]

Crops, News

Farmers watch markets rally as crops wither

By Laura Rance-Unger July 28, 2017

If Glacier FarmMedia weather and market analyst Bruce Burnett had to pick one word to sum up the state of the Prairie crop this summer, it would be “variable.” Burnett logged a 4,500-km crop tour across the Prairies in mid-July and reported in at the third annual Ag in Motion farm show about what he[...]

Machinery, News

Not just a driverless tractor, but no tractor at all

By Laura Rance-Unger June 28, 2017

While farmers have been waiting impatiently for equipment designers to commercialize the driverless tractor, Prairie inventor and entrepreneur Norbert Beaujot has found a way to ditch the tractor altogether. And he’s rolling it out for the first time in July 18 to 20 at Ag in Motion (AIM), Western Canada’s outdoor farm show now in[...]

Livestock, Opinion

Studying the benefits of grass-fed livestock

By Laura Rance-Unger May 1, 2017

It’s unlikely that University of Toronto researcher Richard Bazinet will include on his resumé the fact that he had a whole room of farmers holding their noses. But it was actually an effective demonstration of good taste, not smell. Bazinet passed around jelly beans and asked people to plug their noses as they placed one[...]

Comment

Is Ag in the Classroom a corporate shill? Far from it

By Laura Rance-Unger April 3, 2017

Classrooms across the country were getting some special visitors in March as volunteers for the non-profit organization Ag in the Classroom Canada (AITC-C) did their bit to promote Ag Literacy Month. In this province, those volunteers included Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler and fellow cabinet minister and Portage la Prairie farmer Ian Wishart, who took turns[...]

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U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

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Carbon key to building resilience on farms

Farmers’ focus must shift from yields to soil health

Degraded soils cost farmers billions annually

Organic producers could see net profit levels range from $100 to $300 per acre

Editorial: Demand pull nature of organic foods can't be ignored

Editorial: Changing times, changing tastes

Farmers watch markets rally as crops wither

Not just a driverless tractor, but no tractor at all

Studying the benefits of grass-fed livestock

Is Ag in the Classroom a corporate shill? Far from it

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