Bison ranchers Brooks and Jen White of Lyleton, Man., are breaking their own ground on adaptive grazing, and they’re going right back to the system’s roots to do it. It doesn’t take long to find bison mentioned on the many regenerative agriculture blogs, grazing websites and seminar advertisements currently floating through cyberspace. After all, as
Introducing the original high stock density grazers
Many adaptive grazing systems look to mimic the original bison herds, but how do those systems change when bison themselves are behind the wire?
Ticking down to Open Farm Day 2018
Open Farm Day has become one of Manitoba’s largest agricultural outreach efforts, with locations across Manitoba and thousands of visitors, including many who would ordinarily never set foot on a farm
Rural Manitoba has once again been getting ready for its close-up. The occasion is the annual Open Farm Day slated for this Sunday, Sept. 16. Forty-two sites are preparing to open their doors to the public this weekend, slightly down from last year’s 46, although co-ordinator Wendy Bulloch says she is still happy with the
Pollinator program faces down farm realities
Operation Pollinator providers say they are still fine tuning the recipe for success when bringing their program to the field
Scott Lavich was already sold on supporting pollinator habitat before he signed on with Syngenta Canada’s Operation Pollinator last year. The Riding Mountain-area producer already had both interest and experience in on-farm conservation, making him a perfect fit for the program, which offers up to two acres worth of pollinator-friendly seed mix and financial support
Different harvest, different combine settings
Those combine settings may not be doing you any favours if you’re aiming for straight cut and they’re still set to swath
First-time canola straight cutters might want to take another look at their combine settings. “When we’re comparing picking up a windrow to straight cutting, we, again, want to kind of treat this like a different crop,” Angela Brackenreed of the Canola Council of Canada stressed during a recent Manitoba Agriculture webinar. “The same combine setting
Was this year actually wetter than last year?
Both this year and last year have been dry, but this year might actually be the wetter of the two, going by numbers alone
Manitoba’s fields have had their feet to the fire this year as the province suffers through its second consecutive dry growing season — but Manitoba Agriculture data says this year might have actually been the wetter of the two. Timi Ojo, meteorology specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says more rain fell from May to late August
Tips for growing ’taters
Growing potatoes requires disturbing the soil, so how does that mesh with soil conservation efforts? According to provincial experts, it can
Soil advocates want potato growers to bump soil management up their priority list. Marla Riekman, soil management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, pitched soil management principles to growers and agronomists at Carberry’s Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre potato tour Aug. 14. Erosion risk The root crop, by its nature, involves disturbing soil, something that soil health advocates
Tiptoeing around the dreaded ‘D’ word
The word ‘drought’ is being tossed around in Manitoba’s agriculture industry, but the province isn’t ready to go there just yet
Most of Manitoba is dry for the second year running, but is it a drought? The term fits, according to AAFC. The agency’s national drought monitor says most of eastern Manitoba and the Interlake is in moderate or severe drought, along with land stretching through southern Manitoba from the Ontario border and well into Westman.
Communications breakdown
In the wake of last week’s fire, Crystal City residents have joined the rural Manitobans taking cellphone companies to task for what they say is subpar coverage
Crystal City residents say that poor cell coverage compounded the crisis caused by a fire last week. That’s when fire erupted from the top of the local grain elevator, spewing ash and embers into the air, razing the elevator to the ground and setting a hardware store ablaze. “I heard of one firefighter who was
Crystal City area grain growers face long haul
Few local shipping options after local elevator burned to ground
Days after fire razed a Crystal City grain elevator to the ground, Kyle Holman had an extra 400 bushels of wheat to move, and no local terminal. “Maybe I wasn’t the best customer as far as using them consistently, but there were definitely situations where it’s going to be hard to replace the convenience of
Women take the wheel at combine clinic
Ag Women Manitoba wants to beat back the preconceptions over female farm equipment operators
Tiffany Dancho and Pam Bailey don’t think machinery should just be for men. Two of the lead voices behind Ag Women Manitoba, Dancho and Bailey set off for Neepawa and the group’s inaugural combine clinic July 13 in the hopes of getting women more comfortable in the cab. “I’ve been in equipment for 10-plus years,