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Residents wait to fill their containers with water in a field in Latur, India, April 17, 2016.
International news

Trafficking risk rises as villagers flee India’s worst drought in decades

A flood of migrants from rural India are searching for water, food and jobs as they flee arid conditions

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A mass migration of tens of thousands of people from rural India, sparked by the worst drought in decades, is fuelling concerns they may be trafficked or exploited. The migrants are searching for water, food, jobs and other basics of life, activists say. About 330 million people, almost a quarter of the country’s population, are
The Brandon Research and Development Centre held a field tour of its oats and wheat trials on August 3.
Crops, Local news

Local testing of cereal varieties key to determining productivity

Researchers at the Brandon Research and Development Centre are committed 
to testing varieties under local conditions

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On paper that new wheat or barley variety looks like a winner — but how’s it actually going to perform under real-life conditions? That’s the question federal and provincial crop researchers working at the Brandon Research and Development Centre (BRDC) are hoping to contribute to with a host of ongoing variety trials at their 2,500-acre
Crop Report, Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 16

Conditions as of August 15, 2016

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Crops are maturing rapidly across Manitoba. The 2016 harvest was slowed by the continuing wet conditions in some areas of Manitoba. However, harvest operations did occur where field and weather conditions allowed. Harvest of winter wheat, fall rye, spring wheat, barley, oats and field peas continues. To date, reported winter wheat yields range from 50
Fresh raw bacon slices close up image
Local news

Manitoba celebrates bacon month

Winnipeg is considered Canada’s bacon capital

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If bacon makes everything better, Winnipeg must be the best place on earth. That’s because Canada’s bacon capital is celebrating Bacon Month in Manitoba, for the third year in a row, and Manitoba Pork is calling on bacon lovers to help celebrate by entering a contest to win bacon for a year. There’s little doubt
Land management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Marla Riekman discusses the impacts forage and grazing practices have on the soil.
Livestock, Local news

Applied research already well underway at MBFI

MBFI has kick-started a number of research projects, examining everything from energy-dense annual forages to riparian health

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Just 18 months into its existence, the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative (MBFI) has hit the ground running with a number of research projects. “Transitioning from the initial concept of MBFI to successfully completing several research projects in such short order is no small feat,” said Ramona Blyth, chair of the MBFI board during the
The Soo Locks between Lake Superior and the St. Marys River.
News

Provincial and state leaders float Great Lakes shipping plan

A US$3.8-billion investment would increase capacity and kick-start economic development

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Provinces and states bordering the Great Lakes say there’s a need to boost shipping on the waterway — now they just have to convince the feds on both sides of the border. They’re boosting a US$3.8-billion plan which will require at least 10 years of construction, dredging and regulatory harmonization to implement, much of which
In vitro a bison first
Did you know?, News

In vitro a bison first

Saskatchewan researchers say the techniques will pave the way to battling TB and brucellosis in wild herds

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In a world first, veter­inary researchers at the University of Sask­atch­ewan have produced three bison calves using in vitro fertilization. Researchers produced them in a laboratory, then transferred the embryos into surrogate mothers. A fourth calf was produced from a frozen embryo that was taken from a bison cow in 2012 and transferred to a
Manitoba gardeners need to be watching for late blight in their tomatoes and potatoes. These tomatoes have late blight and should be destroyed to protect Manitoba’s 64,500 acres of commercial potatoes.
Crops, Local news

Manitoba potato growers, gardeners need to scout for late blight

Home gardens can be a source of infection for the fungal disease that can spread to commercial potato fields

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Manitoba gardeners need to scout for late blight in their tomatoes and potatoes — not just to protect themselves, but the provinces’s 64,500 acres of commercial potato production. Late blight — the same fungal disease responsible for the Irish potato famine in the late 1840s — was detected July 16 in a potato field near
Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers.
Cereals, Local news

KAP wants action to get grain moving through Churchill this year

Dan Mazier says contracts have been made and not meeting them sends the wrong message 
about Canada as a grain supplier

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Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier is dismayed by delays in reopening the Port of Churchill to export grain this year. “I will put this right at the feet of the federal government — either the transport minister or the agriculture minister,” Mazier said in an interview Aug. 6. “There are (grain) contracts out
Fusarium head blight in canary grass.
Crops, Local news

Lygus bugs, moths present in sunflowers, keep your eye on stored grain

Manitoba Insect and Disease summary for August 10

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Summary Insects: Insects of highest importance to scout for currently are Lygus bugs in canola and sunflowers, and banded sunflower moths in sunflowers. Only trace levels of soybean aphids have been found so far. There have still been no reports of high levels of larvae of bertha armyworms in Manitoba. Plant Pathogens: Various diseases continue

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