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Lana Shaw is asking for producers to give $200 to “adopt” one of 48 plots in her flax-fababean intercrop trials in Redvers, Sask., this year.
Crops, News

Research to go to a good home

‘Adopt a Plot’ campaign turns to crowdfunding to test novel intercrop combinations

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Lana Shaw has a long list of crop combinations she would like to test in the intercrop trial plots, and she hopes farmers themselves will give her the funds to get that research off the ground. The researcher from the South East Research Farm is back again with another crowdfunding research campaign. Shaw is asking
Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate
Cereals, Crops

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

Registration trials will have to wait for farm-developed organic wheat varieties while changes are made to the proposed trial design

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The University of Manitoba’s farm-based organic wheat-breeding program is ready to start towards commercialization, but the body responsible for recommending new genetics to the CFIA says there is still work to be done. Jamie Larsen, chair of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT), says a proposed trial plan submitted this year
Crop insurance deadline coming up
Crops, News

Crop insurance deadline coming up

Crop dollar values are generally slightly higher, while premiums on average are down seven per cent

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The deadline for making crop insurance changes for the coming season, or enrolling for the first time, is nearly here. The March 31 deadline is a Sunday this year so Manitoba farmers have until Monday, April 1, says David Van Deynze, vice-president of insurance operations at the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC), which administers the
Will and Jen Bergmann are Manitoba’s 2019 Outstanding Young Farmers.
Local news, News

Will and Jen Bergmann named 2019 Manitoba OYF winners

The pair has embraced local food and 
social media to promote farming

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A Glenlea couple is Manitoba’s 2019 Outstanding Young Farmers. Will and Jen Bergmann of Bergmann Bros. were named the winners of the provincial award earlier this month at an event at the Elkhorn Resort. Will Bergmann grew up on the family operation, south of Winnipeg, and he and Jen returned to the farm about seven
Cold weather can cause your appetite to go into overdrive.
Recipe Swap

Does freezing weather increase the calories we burn?

Our environmental conditions can definitely affect our metabolism

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When I arrived at work, the temperature was 14 C. At this temperature, the students on campus ordinarily would have packed away their winter coats, scarves, hats, mittens and boots. They are wearing shorts and flip-flops. Unfortunately, 14 C was the temperature in my office. The outdoor temperature was at least 35° colder, so my
Falling number can be obtained free of charge from the Canadian Grain Commission through its harvest sample program until Dec. 31 if you’re registered for the program. (Canadian Grain Commission photo)
Crops

Grain grading revamp may add falling number, DON as factors

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Two significant grain specs that aren’t yet factors for a crop’s official grade are now under consideration to join that official list. The Canadian Grain Commission on Monday put out a call for “grain sector stakeholders” to submit their views before May 10 on a proposal for falling number and deoxynivalenol (DON) to both become
Manitoba growers haven’t yet voted with their acres when it comes to accepting corn as a major crop in the province, 
despite some modest growth.
Cereals, Crops

Corn’s future should be bright in Manitoba

The results of five years of corn agronomy research show it to be among the most profitable crops but farmers aren’t yet adopting it widely

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Corn has seen some moderate acreage gains recently as a crop for farmers in Manitoba, and for good reason. The yield per acre seeded has grown exponentially over the past 20 years. But that growth in acres hasn’t been exponential as well. It’s been more in the realm of the slow and steady. For example,
Jill McDonald of SaskBarley makes the case for better barley variety acceptance during the Prairie Grain Development Committee meeting in Saskatoon Feb. 27.
Cereals, News

Barley varieties moribund

New genetics are needed in the field

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Malt buyers have been slow to accept new varieties and that’s starting to have a big effect on growers. Yields are lagging, profits are falling and other crops are starting to look more attractive to growers. Jill McDonald of SaskBarley wants to see that change. She says varieties need to keep up with the times,
Clubroot galls are the sure sign the disease is present, but dead patches in the field should also be easy to spot at swathing time.
Crops, Oilseeds, Other

The Manitoba clubroot advantage

So far the transmission pattern for the disease suggests farmers in this province still have time to act

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It looks like clubroot is moving just a bit differently in Manitoba and that could be good news for producers trying to slow or stop its spread. Bruce Gossen, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), told the Manitoba agronomist conference earlier this winter there’s a clear pattern in the other Prairie provinces
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

Viterra buys up all of North Dakota grain terminal

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Viterra has bought up the other half of a U.S. joint-venture grain terminal the company helped build in its SaskPool days. The Regina-based grain handling arm of commodity firm Glencore announced Thursday it has closed a deal to buy U.S. food processor General Mills’ 50 per cent stake in the two companies’ grain terminal at

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