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News & Opinion, Opinion

Farmland declines will continue

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Three years ago I stated, “No one knows the future, but there is a good possibility that we have seen the last of the rising land-value reports for a while.” This was a strong statement, considering it was made a few weeks after an Aug. 2, 2013, U.S. Department of Agriculture report confirmed what surveys
A new deal gives John Deere customers access to drone imagery.
Local news

Aerial imagery deal signed

Two Manitoba companies are major players in the new venture

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A Manitoba-based John Deere dealership has inked a deal to give customers access to drone services that can generate images used to help make decisions about land and water management. Enns Brothers joins Saskatchewan-based Western Sales in linking up with Green Aero Tech last month. Green Aero Tech was founded in 2012 in the Red
Canola most sensitive to potential trade disruption
Crops, News, Oilseeds

Canola most sensitive to potential trade disruption

A long list of pesticide residues and other issues have the potential to derail canola exports

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Few Canadian crops rely on exports as much as canola so making sure they don’t contain pesticides customers prohibit is critical to protecting markets, the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) says. “Canada exports 90 per cent of the canola we produce, and shipments containing even the smallest amount of unacceptable residues or deregistered varieties can
Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 20

Conditions as of September 12, 2016

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Wet weather over the past week slowed harvest progress in Manitoba. The recent weather is also impacting crop quality in spring wheat and barley. Some crops are being harvested at tough or damp moisture levels, requiring aeration or artificial drying to achieve safe storage moisture levels. Soybeans, grain corn and sunflowers are maturing quickly. Silage
New crops and varieties developed here will help expand market opportunities for vegetable farmers, says Keith Kuhl chair of Peak of the Market and Tracy Shinners-Carnelley, the grower co-operative’s director of research and quality enhancement.
Crops, Local news

Winkler-area research site to help expand markets for vegetable growers

Site will evaluate varieties and crop management techniques for 
fresh-market potatoes and carrots, and even sweet potatoes

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Those orange-fleshed sweet potatoes Canadians love eating travel many miles to reach our dinner plates. Most are grown in the southern U.S., where a much longer and warmer growing season makes commercial production possible. Now new varietal research, underway near Winkler, may make field production of them possible in a Canadian climate too. Sweet potatoes
Dried sewage sludge could solve the phosphorus question.
Did you know?, News

Sewage sludge could fertilize crops

Researchers in Madagascar think the environmental benefits 
of recycling phosphorus can’t be ignored

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Researchers say they may have found another manure source that’s perfect for fertilizing crops — the catch is it’s of the human variety. In a recent article in the open-access journal Frontiers in Nutrition scientists from Madagascar’s University of Antananarivo investigated using thermally conditioned sewage sludge on crops. Thermal conditioning kills potentially harmful pathogens, leaving
Livestock, Local news

Manitoba Beef Producers’ bursaries awarded

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Six students have been awarded Manitoba Beef Producers’ (MBP) bursaries for the upcoming school year. Each year MBP offers six $500 bursaries to members, or the children of members, who are attending university, college or other post-secondary institutions. Students pursuing trades training are also eligible. Preference is given to students who are pursuing a field
Three crops in two years may be a possibility. Researchers are harvesting canola in year one, then seeding winter wheat. In the spring they seed soybeans between the winter wheat rows. They then harvest the winter wheat, and wait until late October to harvest the soybeans.
Crops, Local news

Yield-boosting winter wheat research

Winter wheat already has a yield advantage but researchers think 
they could go even higher

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The Western Winter Wheat Initiative is working to boost winter wheat yields. “We really want to push the yield on these new varieties,” says Ken Gross, an agronomist with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Western Winter Wheat Initiative. “These new varieties have more yield potential. And we really want to push the yield on these
An August 29 seeding date (left) shows far greater development by mid-June when compared to a Sept. 29 seeding date (right).
Crops, Local news

New winter wheat varieties for Manitoba farmers

Ken Gross is especially excited about AAC Gateway and he says more are coming

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There are great new winter wheats available to Manitoba farmers and more in the pipeline, says Ken Gross, an agronomist with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Western Winter Wheat Initiative. “(AAC) Gateway is my new favourite and I really like the way it looks,” Gross told the Crop Talk Westman webinar Aug. 31. “It has
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Quiet dedication

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It was nearly 10 o’clock this past Tuesday evening, when my phone quietly buzzed, indicating an email had arrived. Despite what countless mental health experts have to say about not obsessively checking your work email during non-work hours, I couldn’t help but take a peek, as my curiosity got the better of me. What I

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