At the recent Crop Diagnostic School, Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson came across a new tool in the fight to control soybean aphids.
VIDEO: Smartphone app offers info on spraying soybean aphids
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Some soybean aphids showing up so scout your fields
Soybean aphids are being found in some soybean fields near Portage la Prairie and some fields have been sprayed, while others are being monitored, Red Beard Farms aerial applicator Chris McCallister said in an interview July 27. The threshold for applying an insecticide to control soybean aphids is 250 and rising. The “rising” part is
Blistering soybean leaves vs. cupping: the first isn’t a worry, the second is
Manitoba Agriculture’s Lionel Kaskiw is getting calls about dicamba drift
If you see what looks like blistering on soybean leaves don’t worry it’s not herbicide drift and the crop will grow out of it, says Lionel Kaskiw, Manitoba Agriculture’s Farm Production Advisor based in Souris. However, leaf cupping can be a sign of dicamba damage in soybeans that are not dicamba-tolerant, he said July 26
KAP frustrated by lack of detail on Manitoba’s carbon tax
A new Manitobans Against Carbon Taxes Coalition is pressuring the provincial government to join Saskatchewan to fight the tax
Frustration is growing over a lack of information on Manitoba government’s carbon tax. “We are a little bit sick and tired of starting to negotiate and discuss this issue in a vacuum without information from the province on what it is looking at,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) general manager James Battershill told KAP delegates at
Holey underwear shows soil health
After two months in a zero-till field, this underwear was well on its way to being one with the earth
What a difference two months can make on the weather and tighty-whities buried in the soil. There wasn’t a lot left of the cotton underwear Marla Riekman buried in local farmer Doug Wilton’s zero-till field April 18, when she retrieved it June 29. “We can obviously see a lot of breakdown,” said Riekman, Manitoba Agriculture’s
Grain commission fee cuts take effect Aug. 1
It’s official — Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) fees will drop substantially at the start of the new crop year. Effective Aug. 1 the CGC will cut its fees for official export inspection charge from $1.70 per tonne to $1.35, and the weighing charge to seven cents per tonne from 16 cents, the CGC said in
Manitoba soybean acreage now higher than red spring wheat
Manitoba farmers’ affection for soybeans has hit new heights. Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) projects 2.3 million acres of insured soybeans this year, up 39 per cent from last year’s record and for the first time higher than Canada Western Red Spring wheat. In 2000, Manitoba farmers insured just 18,419 acres of soybeans. Insured plantings
Farm coalition wants BRM review
Brandon — When Canada’s agriculture ministers meet this week in St. John’s, N.L., a coalition of farm groups hopes they announce a “comprehensive review” of business risk management (BRM) programs. Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is among them. Manitoba’s general farm organization wants improvements to AgriInvest, and especially AgriStability. “(AgriStability) is not doing what it was
VIDEO: On the 4R Nutrient Management Tour
Manitoba Agriculture’s John Heard, applicator operator Rod Owen and Adam McKnight of Bud McKnight Seeds discussed in-crop nitrogen application in Carman, Man. farmer Tyler Russell’s cornfield June 28 during the 4R nutrient stewardship tour.
Better nitrogen efficiency, now and in the future
The June 28 4R nitrogen stewardship tour looked at current research and tools that could be coming in the future
Increasing yields while applying the same or less nitrogen is good for farmers and the environment. It also sums up the goal of the 4R stewardship program. The four Rs refer to applying nitrogen to crops using the right source and rate at the right time and right place. “That’s our big challenge,” University of