In some ways spring is the best time to apply manure, but in other ways it’s not. Crops get the best use of nutrients when applied in the spring, but with seeding being a priority there’s often not a lot of time, says Petra Loro, Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development’s livestock environment specialist. But if
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Frost ends Manitoba potato harvest
'Two bad years in a row hurts,' says potato growers association manager
Frost last week ended Manitoba’s potato harvest, leaving thousands of acres undug. It’s the second year wet soils prevented potato farmers from getting all the crop off before heavy frost ruined it. And while the final figures aren’t in, an estimated 12,000 acres of potatoes worth more than $50 million, didn’t get dug, says Dan
New tool on the way for canola growers safeguards against blackleg
Saltro is a new seed treatment to control blackleg at the seedling stage expected to be available for the 2021 growing season
A new fungicide to protect canola seedlings from blackleg, a major yield-robbing disease, could be available as a seed treatment for the 2021 growing season. It’s called Saltro and was developed by Syngenta. “Syngenta anticipates registration in time to make it available for use in the 2021 growing season,” Sarah Osborne, company marketing operations manager,
Survey says: Farmers reject proposed seed royalty models
Farmer skepticism on end point and trailing royalties proposals came through loud and clear in a recent survey
Proponents of royalties proposals to fund cereals variety development need to either head back to the drawing board or do a better job of making their case. A recent survey from the three Prairie general farm organizations conducted to gauge farmer response to the two proposals for end point or trailing royalties found a deep
Opinion: Agriculture faces challenges with Liberal minority government
With no western MPs and plenty of other priorities, the sector will fight not to be sidelined
Agriculture didn’t get a lot of attention during the recent federal election and that’s not likely to change with the new Liberal minority government. The government’s priority is survival. That means a laser-like focus on immediate issues, as well as fulfilling major election promises — affordability, climate change and a national pharmacare program. The ‘progressive’
Canada, China meet over canola stalemate
[UPDATED: Oct. 31, 2019] Glacier FarmMedia – Canada and China finally had a face-to-face meeting *Oct. 28 in Geneva on China’s de facto import ban of Canadian canola seed. The private consultation under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) went well, according to Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s *vice-president of public
Time to re-engage on seed royalty discussion
SeCan’s Todd Hyra says more resources are needed
If plant breeders are going to develop the next AAC Brandon, they need the resources to do it, says Todd Hyra, SeCan’s business manager for Western Canada. Last fall consultations led by the federal government on two new options — trailing and end point royalties — met with some stiff push-back from farmers. Both options
Which crops were hot, and what was not in 2019
MASC report details 2019 crop insured acreage and varieties’ market share
BASF’s InVigor L233 P (LT) (PSR-R) canola was planted on 44.5 per cent of Manitoba’s 3.2 million acres of insured canola this year. That data comes from the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation’s 2019 Variety Market Share Information. Its closest rival — L255 PC (LT) (PSR-R) — had 12 per cent of the acres, followed by
AAC Brandon No. 1 wheat in Manitoba four years running
MASC’s 2019 Variety Market Share Information lists crop acreages and the percentage of plantings by variety
AAC Brandon remains Manitoba’s ‘Wheat King.’ For the fourth year running AAC Brandon was the most planted red spring wheat insured in Manitoba. The variety, developed at Swift Current by former Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada wheat breeder Ron DePauw, and distributed by SeCan, was planted on 1.8 million insured red spring wheat acres, accounting for
Manitoba farmers look for good weather to resume harvest
A wet turn after a dry summer has many farmers wondering if they’ll get the crop off
Beleaguered Manitoba farmers struggling to wrap up harvest are hoping for more good weather, and maybe a hard frost so machinery can travel on muddy fields. A major snowstorm Thanksgiving weekend just made fields, already soaked by above-average fall rain, wetter. As of Oct. 15, 26 per cent of Manitoba’s crop — 2.6 million acres
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