Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson talks to Doug Wilcox of the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation about new record crop yields as reported in Yield Manitoba 2018, an insert in the Feb. 15, 2018 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator.
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VIDEO: Get ready for Yield Manitoba 2018
Markets and management at Manitoba Beef and Forage Days
Attendees to the 2018 Beef and Forage Days got both a window into the industry and a crystal ball on where it’s going next, including management strategies on the horizon
Manitoba’s beef industry got an update from the ground up last week. Manitoba Beef and Forage Days kicked off with topics like pasture management, grazing systems, traceability and a market forecast from Canfax. The tour made five stops in as many days from Minitonas to Vita during the last week of January, plus two independent
Rossburn family recognized with MSA award
Northern Light Simmentals has been dedicated to the breed for many years
Since 1995, the Manitoba Simmental Association (MSA) has presented the A.O. Henuset Memorial Distinguished Service Award, to persons who have helped establish the Simmental industry in Manitoba. As the 2017 winners, the Carson family of Northern Light Simmentals, located approximately 15 km southwest of Rossburn, exemplify dedication to the Simmental breed through the cattle program
VIDEO: Boldly spraying where no one’s sprayed before?
ROGA Drone wants to swoop onto the crop spray market with an autonomous UAV
Started as a company in 2017, ROGA Drone is one of the new players in the UAV market, and Don Campbell believes there’s an untapped market in Western Canada for UAVs to spray insecticide. His flight plan? The Kray drone. The Kray drone is a fixed wing UAV using eight rotors to keep it airborne,
Young farmer research shared with KAP delegates
The Becoming a Young Farmer study began in 2017 asking new entrants about how the next generation sees agriculture
Manitoba stood out in 2016 census data for having the largest proportion of those younger farm operators, as well as the youngest population of farm operators in Canada outside Quebec. But these young agriculturalists now farm a landscape more thinly populated than one their grandparents and even parents experienced. During the 1980s and 1990s, when
Is a soybean-canola rotation worth rolling the dice?
Most farmers aren’t jumping on a soybean-canola rotation, but explosive growth of soybean acres and their westward spread into canola country have some asking the question
Farmers better study up on the hurdles of a soybean-canola rotation before trying it in the field, Manitoba Agriculture specialists say. Soybeans have been a growing story in Manitoba, rising over the last decade to become one of the province’s main crops with almost 2.3 million acres planted in 2017. Combined with canola, another high-value
Not farming? Pay up
Researcher wants to track land tenure throughout the Prairies
To keep more farmland in the hands of farmers, put a levy on sales of it to those who buy land but don’t plan farming it themselves. That’s a proposal put forward as a resolution at Keystone Agricultural Producers’ annual general meeting and supported by delegates last month. This would be a support to younger
Erosion lessons learned… and forgotten
The dust-covered snow of this winter suggests there’s a soil erosion problem brewing, MSSS speaker says
Disappearing shelterbelts and blackened fields have some wondering if the soil conservation lessons learned during the ‘Dirty ’30s’ dust bowl are being forgotten. “From the edge of Fargo to the edge of Winnipeg I did not see one flake of white snow on my way up yesterday (Jan. 31),” Daryl Ritchison, interim director of the
VIDEO: A return to the Dust Bowl days?
Are the soil conservation lessons learned from the Dirty Thirties being forgotten? Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson spoke with Jim Tokarchuk of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada and University of Manitoba soil science professor David Lobb about this very issue at the Manitoba Soil Science Society’s meeting on Feb. 1, 2018. Watch for more
Speaker urges a change of pace when chasing maximum yield
Don’t think about what to add, Ag Days speaker says — think about what’s possible and subtract from there
Single changes won’t cut it if producers really want their best possible yield. Jarrett Chambers, president of ATP Nutrition, wants producers to be radical when it comes to testing management tools. “We have to figure out in a grower, what is their maximum yield for their farm and figure out, what is the potential? Where
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