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Frost damage reported in a few areas
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Frost damage reported in a few areas

An area around Somerset saw below-freezing temperatures for four to seven hours last Friday

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Most Manitoba producers have dodged an icy bullet for now, but there are reports of some minor injury and areas that received a killing frost. Long-season crops, including corn, and later-seeded crops in parts of western Manitoba got some frost early Monday morning, but the extent of the damage wasn’t known at press time Monday,
Food banks want that garden overload
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Food banks want that garden overload

Recipe Swap: Summer Beet Salad and Carefree Cabbage Roll Casserole

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Do you have a garden full of vegetables you can’t possibly use? That heady excitement that goes with garden centre visits in spring often leads to surplus vegetables in fall you can’t even give away. Everyone else has the same problem. But you can give them away. Your local food bank will be glad to
Dennis Lange of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development says soybean maturity can vary a lot between varieties as illustrated in this plot near Carman photographed Sept. 5.
Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba soybean growers hoping for more frost-free days

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Much of Manitoba’s soybean crop is mature enough to survive the sub-zero temperatures expected this week, although yields and quality could be reduced in some areas, a soybean expert said Sept. 8. “Ideally two weeks without frost would be wonderful,” Dennis Lange, a farm production adviser with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) said
American canola crusher setting up delivery facility in Winkler
Crops, Oilseeds

American canola crusher setting up delivery facility in Winkler

Northstar Agri Industries located in Hallock, Minn. is making it simpler and faster for 
Manitoba farmers to deliver to them on this side of the border

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An American crushing firm is making it easier for southern Manitoba farmers to deliver canola to it. Northstar Agri Industries of Hallock, Minnesota, is building a new 1,500-tonne high-throughput facility at Winkler to receive, store and transload canola. The operation, due to open this fall, will employ two or three people. “The demand for (canola)
VIDEO: Watch soybean varieties closely as frost looms
Crops, Oilseeds

VIDEO: Watch soybean varieties closely as frost looms

Keep varieties' progress in mind when choosing for next year

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Manitoba soybean growers are hoping for at least another frost-free week. Dennis Lange of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development discussed soybean maturity on Sept. 7 with Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson at a test plot near Carman. The plot of yellow-leaved soybeans seen in the video are in the R-7 stage. According to Lange, this
Swathed canola near Elphinstone awaits drier weather.  Photo: Laura Rance
Crops, Forages, News, Oilseeds, Weather

Rain, rain go away

Recent rains and forecasts for more along with shorter days and cooler temperatures are delaying Manitoba’s harvest

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Harvest is looking like spring — too wet. Most of agro-Manitoba received rain last week, and again over the long weekend with more was forecast for this week, prompting concerns about harvest delays and deteriorating grades. “I think everyone is pretty worried about this is affecting the quality of grain, especially wheat,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’
 Photo: Allan Dawson
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Carberry, 5440 Invigor Manitoba’s most popular spring wheat, canola in 2014

The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation has posted market share data 
based on 2014 seeded acreage reports filed by farmers

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For the second year running, Manitoba farmers’ top pick for red spring wheat varieties was Carberry, the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) says. And they liked 5440 Invigor canola, 24-10RY soybeans, Conlon barley, Souris oats and CDC Bethune flax, the list of crop varieties and their market share posted on the MASC website said. The
Editorial: Trends and anomalies
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Editorial: Trends and anomalies

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It’s easy to get a little giddy when things go much better than expected. For example, take last year’s bin buster of a crop. By any measure, it was an astounding production feat. Western Canadian farmers shattered all previous records on most major crops, growing a whopping 76 million tonnes, 50 per cent higher than
A lygus bug in canola. Once seeds in the lower pods start to change colour canola crops are less susceptible to lygus bug damage.  photo: John Gavloski, mafrd
Crops, Oilseeds

Assessing canola’s susceptibility to lygus bug damage

The risk declines as seeds in the lower pods start to change colour

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Lygus bugs are still showing up in canola fields, but if seeds on the lower pods are changing colour then spraying with an insecticide is probably uneconomic, says John Gavloski, an entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. “The plant can compensate well unless there’s very, very dry conditions,” he said in an interview
Clubroot infections found in Manitoba mild so far
News, Oilseeds

Clubroot infections found in Manitoba mild so far

Keeping this serious 
canola disease under control requires early detection, which can be revealed through soil testing

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Clubroot has been detected in 13 Manitoba fields since 2009, but all have been mild infections, says Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD). “What we’re finding in Manitoba right now is clubroot at very low levels,” Kubinec told the Westman Crop Talk webinar Aug. 20. MAFRD released a map

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