Barry Todd knows what he’s going to miss most as he prepares for retirement after serving Manitoba’s agricultural sector more than three decades — the people Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural initiatives’ (MAFRI) deputy minister retires March 1 after almost 32 years with the department, including the last 10 as acting and then the permanent
Barry Todd retires March 1
2012 Manitoba barley yields highly variable
Farmers in the Red River Valley harvested a bumper crop, but it was the exception. Overall yields were below average.
Manitoba’s 2012 barley crop averaged 54 bushels an acre — 14 bushels higher than in 2011, but almost nine per cent lower than the 10-year average of 59, Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) data shows. The provincial average yield doesn’t tell the whole story. Many Red River Valley farmers harvested a bumper crop of barleyNew herbicide option from MANA Canada
Priority’s active ingredient is florasulam, a Group 2 herbicide, designed to be tank mixed with the farmer’s choice of glyphosate
Western Canadian farmers will have another pre-seed, chemfallow and post-harvest weed control option starting this spring by tank mixing MANA Canada’s Priority herbicide with glyphosate. Florasulam, an off-patent Group 2 weed killer, is Priority’s active ingredient, which when tank mixed with glyphosate will have the same active ingredients as PrePass, Andrew Mann, MANA Canada’s generalMan. crop insurance to expand areas for heat-loving crops
Manitoba’s crop insurance program will expand provincewide on a test basis this year in its coverage of soybeans, corn, open-pollinated corn, edible beans, sunflowers and lentils. Until now, those crops were only insurable in areas deemed to be warm enough, and with enough frost-free days. However, farmers from outside those areas have been asking for
Crop insurance expands areas for heat-loving crops
This is something farmers have been asking for, especially with the release of earlier-maturing varieties
Crop insurance on soybeans, corn, open-pollinated corn, edible beans, sunflowers and lentils is being expanded — on a test basis — across Manitoba this year. Until now, those crops were only insurable in areas deemed to be warm enough, and with enough frost-free days. However, farmers from outside those areas have been asking for coverage,Other Manitoba crop insurance changes for 2013 and 2014
Expanding crop insurance coverage is just one of the changes for crop insurance in 2013 and 2014. Here are some others. Dollar selections per acre have increased to the following: All crops (excluding potatoes, vegetables and strawberries) $120, $160 and $200. For potatoes, the levels are $250, $500 and $750 and for vegetables and strawberries,
WFO president optimistic about the future of farming
New World Farmers Organization head says demand needs to be met by yield increases in developing countries
Robert Carlson says it really is different this time. “I’m nervous about saying it but I do believe in my heart and my mind that it is true because we have new factors,” the North Dakota farmer and president of the fledgling World Farmers’ Organization (WFO) told the Keystone Agricultural Producers annual meeting in WinnipegA new wheat and barley association another step closer
Manitoba farmers are a step closer to establishing a new spring wheat and barley association to collect voluntary checkoffs for wheat and barley research and marketing. An interim seven-member board of directors met Feb. 15 in Winnipeg and Dauphin-area farmer Don Dewar, a former president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), was selected as chair.
Put these crop pests on your radar
Which pest is going to strike where next and how hard ranks right up there with weather forecasting for jobs that are difficult to get right. But extension agronomists say these are some of the yield robbers on their watch list. Soybean cyst nematode This pest hasn’t been found in Manitoba yet, but it could
Kostyshyn pressed at KAP AGM about backstopping a hog stabilization program
The Manitoba government will soon announce whether it will guarantee a producer-funded stabilization program for Manitoba hog producers. “We’re hoping to come forward with some announcement in very short order,” Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn told Stonewall hog producer George Matheson Jan. 23 during the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ annual meeting in Winnipeg. “I do apologize for