“Zero-till is harder in wheat stubble and strip-till seems to be a way to deal with it.” – JOHN HEARD John Heard and his Crop Diagnostic School team have taken the advice that when life delivers lemons, you make lemonade. All that rain that’s hurting Manitoba crops has also hit the diagnostic school’s plots here
No Shortage Of Topics For Crop School
SPRAYcast Manitoba Is On The Web, Ready To Use
SPRAYcast Manitoba Location: 49.36Nm -98.24W Boom Height: 1.2 metres (4 feet) This is an advisory based on the available weather forecast. Operators must always conform to both label and actual conditions in the field at time of application. Do not use the advisory to spray under conditions that are prohibited by local, provincial or federal
More Rain, More Calls For Aid
Calls for government aid to assist rain-soaked farmers are getting louder. And that was before rains of up to 100 mm hit parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan late last week, adding to the precipitation – in some places double and triple the norm – that has already fallen this spring. Meanwhile, crop diseases appear to
Goodale Bill To Put Farmers In Control At CWB
“Charlie Mayer and Bill Knight, …they didn’t much like the Canadian Wheat Board, but they didn’t attempt to shoot it in the head in the middle of the night.” – RALPH GOODALE Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is trying once more to turn control of the Canadian Wheat Board over to farmers. The architect of the
Add Stripe Rust To Your Disease Watch List
“With any rust the younger the crop is when infected the greater the potential for yield reduction. That’s why one of the main control methods is early planting.” – PAM DE ROCQUIGNY Farmers checking their wheat crops for leaf rust, tan spot and septoria can add stripe rust to the disease watch list. Jason Voogt,
Greenfeed Crop Insurance Deadline July 15
There’s one more crop option now that the June 20 crop insurance seeding deadline has past – greenfeed. Manitoba farmers have until July 15 to sow greenfeed and get crop insurance coverage, albeit reduced. However, not every crop is eligible for greenfeed. The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) defines greenfeed as “oats, barley, mixed grain,
Farmers Demand Ottawa Review Rail Costs For Grain
“The railways … don’t want competition and they don’t want regulation. You can’t have it both ways.” – IAN WISHART Western grain farmers are overpaying the railways by an estimated $200 million a year or $6.87 a tonne to haul their crops to export, according to a study prepared for the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB).
Disease Threatens What’s Left
From 10,000 feet, the muddy Prairie fields below soaked with unprecedented rains this spring can be described in one word: dismal. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) predicts farmers will seed only 19.2 million acres of wheat and 6.6 million of barley – the smallest acreages since 1971 and 1965, respectively. It estimates 8.5 million to
Late-Seeding Tips From MAFRI
“Planting when the soil is too wet will lead to soil compaction, which can decrease yield much more than planting a few days later.” – MAFRI The later a crop is seeded the lower its potential yield, but Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) says there are things farmers can do to make the
Land-Grab Warning
Canadian farmland is not immune to the global land grab that’s underway as corporations and countries position themselves for the prospect of future food shortages, the National Farmers Union says. “We may be on the verge of a new system wherein those who work the land do not own it – a situation that would