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New rules on passive investment arrive in budget

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It’s got no new nuggets specifically for crop or livestock producers, but Tuesday’s federal budget includes the end results of last year’s consultations — and backlash — on corporate taxation. Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s 2018 budget proposes a couple of new limits on Canadian-controlled private corporations’ (CCPC) ability to benefit from a lower tax rate
Manitoba has more crop choices than many locations on the Prairies, which makes a more diverse crop rotation possible.
Crops

Building a ‘better’ crop rotation

Understand all the interactions within a rotation and their effect on yield

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Manitoba is a unique place to farm in the western Canadian Prairies. We enjoy a relatively long growing season, good rainfall (sometimes too much) and have the support of many industry partners, testing a wide range of crop types with adaptation to our climate. With all the crop options we have, a diverse crop rotation
Oat prices to stay put over next 24 months
Cereals, Crops

Oat prices to stay put over next 24 months

Manitoba and oats go together like beta glucan and heart health

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Manitoba farmers could be poised to capitalize on a growing global demand for oats — if Canada gains access to the Chinese market. Speaking to producers at CropConnect in Winnipeg last week, market analyst Randy Strychar said that changing consumption patterns at home and abroad are presenting new opportunities for Prairie oat growers, particularly those
Manitoba Agriculture agri-ecosystems specialist Mitchell Timmerman demonstrates hydrology across soil types as part of a soil fertility update in Brandon Jan. 30-31.
Crops

Finding the source of soil salinity

How the problem came to be will determine how to deal with it in the field

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Managing soil salinity might have a lot to do with how the problem started. Attendees to a Brandon soil fertility update Jan. 30-31, one of several to run through Manitoba in the last month, were told to consider how old the salinity problem is before making a plan of attack. “Salinity is not a soil
Dr. Tom Jensen of the International Plant Nutrition Institute presents in Brandon 
during one of several soil fertility updates in the last month.
Crops

Different nutrient, different strategy

The nutrient in question, its source, and a host of other variables determine the right path

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All nutrients are not created equal, and their management strategies should reflect that. That’s been a core message from soil and fertility specialists this winter during a round of soil fertility updates held in late January and early February. In recent years fertility and extension specialists have concentrated on the 4R message: right source at
Students pull up a round of litter bags and root cores from the cereal 
rye-soybean plot.
Crops, Did you know?, News

Not all cover crops are equal

They all have similar benefits, but how and when they deliver them varies

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What’s the best time to plant a cover crop to capture and supply nutrients for the cash crop you’ll be taking to harvest? A group of U.S. researchers are trying to answer that question and they’re finding different cover crops provide different things at different times. “It’s like trying to time a meal to come

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