The stops at the 2025 Ag in Motion farm show feature an entomologist experimenting with trap crops and marigolds as concepts to control flea beetles.
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Canadian farms at risk from animal activism
A legal expert warns that growing animal rights activism is creating complex challenges for Canadian farmers, despite livestock industry groups spending considerable effort on their public trust files.
Too much waterhemp to destroy in parts of Manitoba
Waterhemp is too established to eradicate in 28 Manitoba municipalities, according to the province. The invasive weed has been reclassified as Tier 2 on the noxious weed list.
Canada may struggle to find markets for its peas
Canada’s competition for its piece of global pea sales is expected to heat up as Russia expects a bigger pea crop in 2025.
Biogas pitched to turn farm waste into renewable energy
Anaerobic digestion can convert manure and other agricultural waste into renewable energy as well as fertilizer, but Manitoba farmers don’t have the best history with the technology
What I learned about Manitoba eggs
Manitoba-laid eggs provide good, locally produced nutrition while supporting local farmers and the Canadian agriculture industry.
Farm safety requires grassroots, cultural shift
Better safety on Canadian farms means deliberately choosing the safer way of doing this, even when it flies in the face of what we’ve always done.
New Manitoba beef research chair to have financial focus
The University of Manitoba will host the BCRC Chair in Beef Cattle Economic Sustainability. The research chair role will focus on economical sustainability on beef farms.
Canada’s interprovincial trade push makes for strange allies
Breaking down interprovincial trade barriers has become a national group project among Canada’s provincial governments, and that’s made for some strange alliances
Farmers, don’t get trapped by herbicide resistance
Canada’s farmers can stretch out how long herbicides work, but nature is designed to help weeds develop herbicide resistance eventually.
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