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Crops, Local news

Big data — a big topic among farmers

Assessing more information has and will lead farmers to better agronomic decisions

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Big data is big business. Two years ago Monsanto paid $1 billion for Climate Corp., a firm that specializes in digitizing and aggregating a long list of data collected from farmers’ fields. The numbers are crunched and sold to farmers so they can make better agronomic decisions and more money. It all started with yield
cattle on pasture
Livestock, Local news

Province lifts limitation on pasture insurance

The pasture insurance pilot program that was limited to
 90 producers last year is now open to the entire province

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Producers who graze their cattle have a new option for protecting themselves from underperforming pastures. Ron Kostyshyn, minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, announced January 19 that the province has lifted limitations on the pasture days insurance program. The program is designed to compensate producers who have had to remove livestock from pasture and
VIDEO: Hydraulic wrench takes the strain off your back
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VIDEO: Hydraulic wrench takes the strain off your back

Manitoba Ag Days 2016 Inventors' Showcase

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If you’ve ever had a lump in the cylinder of your combine while harvesting, you know the difficulty involved in trying to clear it. Enter the reversing wrench from Arnold Innovations designed to make your life a whole lot easier. Built for New Holland CX series combines, the hydraulic piston in the reverser wrench does the heavy
What is that critter, and is it a good one or a bad one? An app being developed by AAFC and the U of M will be able to tell you.
Crops, Local news

App will identify bugs and outbreaks in real time

Farmers and agronomists sought for testing app that will allow reporting and tracking of insect outbreaks

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Researchers at the University of Manitoba and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada are developing a new app that will make it easier for farmers to practise integrated pest management (IPM). The free, user-friendly app, which should be available in 2018, incorporates three separate tools for pest identification, forecasting and crop management. The pest ID tool is
Mike Annetts’ colleague Garry Smith explains how the Lift and Go operates to visitors at Inventors’ Showcase.
Livestock, Local news

Remote-controlled livestock gate featured at Inventors’ Showcase

The livestock gate pivots upwards and can be remotely opened and shut without leaving the tractor

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Mike Annetts doesn’t spend his days opening and shutting farm gates, but farmers he knows do. When they told the industrial arts teacher at McCreary High School that all that repetitive mounting and dismounting from a tractor or any other vehicle just to open gates was basically “a pain in the butt,” Annetts set to
Opinion

Editorial: Social change is never easy

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January 28, 2016 marked a significant milestone in the history of this province. A century ago Manitoba became the first government in Canada to allow women to vote. Many of us with roots in Prairie settlement have our own family stories to tell. In my own case, it was learning through distant relatives recently that
Matthew Reimer, president of Reimer Robotics and Killarney-area farmer, took first place at Ag Days’ 2016 Inventors’ Showcase for a product allowing farmers to turn their existing tractor into a robot.
Crops, Local news

Tractor turned robot maximizes farm labour, says inventor

First prize at Ag Days 2016 Inventors’ Showcase goes to a Killarney-area farmer 
for his robotics invention that eliminates need for a grain cart driver

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At first glance, it looks like one of Matthew Reimer’s farm crew is, well, kind of short. Actually, there is no one driving that grain cart tractor as it navigates the field and pulls up to unload the combine on his Killarney-area farm. Reimer has programmed it to be driverless. Reimer was awarded first place
This elevator, constructed in 1897, is believed to be the oldest grain elevator in Canada still located at its original site. (A slightly older one, at Fleming, Saskatchewan, was destroyed by arson fire in 2010.) It was taken out of service and sold around 1968, and has been standing vacant ever since.
Country Crossroads, Local news

PHOTOS: This Old Elevator: January 2016

Manitoba Historical Society wants to gather information about all the grain elevators in Manitoba

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In the 1950s, there were over 700 grain elevators in Manitoba. Today, there are fewer than 200. You can help to preserve the legacy of these disappearing “Prairie sentinels.” The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator
Rick White, CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, says since farmers pay most of the Canadian Grain Commission’s budget, the commission should be more directly accountable to farmers.
Crops, Local news

Farmers pay but have no say

One industry official says farmers cover most of the Canadian Grain Commission’s budget but the commission isn’t accountable to farmers

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Farmers pay for Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) operations so they should have a bigger say in how it operates, says Rick White, chief executive officer of the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA). “It’s (CGC) a Government of Canada agency and farmers are paying full freight on it now (because of cost recovery),” said White during
Cory Dalzell
Livestock, Local news

VIDEO: Calf Cage captures attention at Ag Days

Manitoba Ag Days 2016 Inventors' Showcase

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The job of processing calves in the field is often made more difficult by over-protective mother cows. To help reduce stress and keep producers safe, Cory Dalzell invented the Calf Cage. An Inventors’ Showcase exhibitor at the recent Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon, Dalzell had his invention on display for visitors. Here he talks about

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