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Weather slows harvest progress, winter cereals emerging
Crops, Local news, Weather

Weather slows harvest progress, winter cereals emerging

Conditions as of October 5, 2015

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In Manitoba, harvest progress was slowed over the past week and into the weekend due to precipitation. Harvest operations will resume once field and weather conditions permit. Grain corn harvest has started; producers also continue to harvest canola, flax, soybeans and sunflowers. Winter cereals are emerging with excellent germination and stand establishment reported. Fall field
Favourable weather, warm temps make for good harvest progress
Crops, Local news, Weather

Favourable weather, warm temps make for good harvest progress

Conditions as of September 28, 2015

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Favourable weather conditions of warm temperatures and minimal rainfall allowed for good harvest progress across most of Manitoba. Winter wheat and fall rye is emerging with excellent germination and stand establishment reported. Fall field work including post-harvest weed control, fall fertilizer applications, tillage and soil testing is on-going. Click here for the Crop Weather Report
sunflower head at harvest
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 21

Conditions as of September 21, 2015

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Above normal temperatures allowed for excellent harvest progress over the past week in Manitoba, with harvest of spring cereal crops nearing completion. Harvest of canola, flax, edible beans and soybeans continues. Sunflower harvest has also started in the Central and Eastern Regions, and grain corn harvest is expected to start shortly in some areas of
(Bruce Fritz photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Weather

Man. sunflower harvest set to start

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CNS Canada — Manitoba farmers will soon be harvesting this year’s sunflower crop, and early expectations look good despite some areas of concern. There are certain areas of the province where the sunflowers are starting to break down due to disease or weather issues, said Anastasia Kubinec, an oilseed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and
corn plants
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 20

Conditions as of September 14, 2015

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Warmer, drier weather conditions towards the end of the week and into the weekend allowed for good harvest progress across most of Manitoba. Some areas reported light frost events Thursday and Friday. To date, minimal impact to crops has been reported largely due to temperatures and duration weren’t sufficient to cause damage, and/or crops were
Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 18
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 18

Conditions as of August 31, 2015

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Sporadic rainfall and high humidity levels slowed harvest progress and haying operations across Manitoba. The recent weather is also resulting in quality loss in some crop types. A strong weather system passed through several areas of the Central Region the morning of August 28. Heavy rains and small to large-sized hail resulted in varying amounts
Can an electric fence keep deer out? So far it’s protecting this plot at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm at Carman. But the deer need to be trained.
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Electric fences could be an easier way to keep deer out of gardens

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Deer. Sure they’re magnificent in the wild with their big dewy eyes, licorice noses and flashing white tails effortlessly clearing fences as if bouncing off hidden trampolines. But when they chow down on your garden, benevolence turns to malevolence. Where deer are plentiful protecting produce can be a big job for rural and urban gardeners
Former Morden Research Station ornamental breeder Wilbert Ronald of Jeffries Nurseries Ltd. says Canada’s nursery and landscape industry owes a lot to research conducted at the Morden Research Station, which celebrated its 100th anniversary Aug. 12.
Crops

Dawson: One hundred years of research at Morden

Although a long list of new field crops continues to be developed at the station, 
Morden is still famous for its work in ornamentals

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While visiting a remote village in India several years ago, I watched women hand-pollinating a field of sunflowers — it was too dry and hot for bees. But even more surprising was the name of the variety — Morden. It was an open-pollinated cultivar developed by Eric Putt at the Morden Research Station half a
Clarence Baker
 1928 –2006
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Agricultural Hall of Fame: Clarence Baker

The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame inducted eight new members 
in July 2015. Here is one of the new inductees

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Clarence Baker was born to Anton and Pauline Baker on July 7, 1928 in Cromwell, Manitoba. Anton immigrated to Canada with his parents from Beckersdorf, Austria in 1896. In 1951, Clarence and his new bride, Ilene Weidman, took over the third-generation family farm which included the 240 acres of land that his grandfather had purchased

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