Lower areas in your field tend to emit more greenhouse gas, research shows that precision 4R nutrient stewardship practices can help mute the trend
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Precision 4R cuts farm greenhouse gas emissions
Lower areas in your field tend to emit more greenhouse gas, research shows that precision 4R nutrient stewardship practices can help mute the trend
Biogas pitched to turn farm waste into renewable energy
Anaerobic digestion can convert manure and other agricultural waste into renewable energy as well as fertilizer, but Manitoba farmers don’t have the best history with the technology
Anaerobic digestion can convert manure and other agricultural waste into renewable energy as well as fertilizer, but Manitoba farmers don’t have the best history with the technology
One change to improve Prairie canola yield
Crop rotation and nutrition topped the list for both Canadian farmers and agronomists
A Canola Council of Canada has surveyed growers on their production practices and found rotation and nutrient management key to increasing yields.
Hand-held device detects nutrient deficiencies in leaf tissue
The Nutriscan device won Manitoba Ag Days’ Innovation Award earlier this year
ATP Nutrition’s Nutriscan uses a near-infrared sensor to measure a range of macro- and micronutrients in plant tissue and delivers the results to an app on a user’s smartphone.
Compost pellets ready for fertilizer trying ground
After years of trials, Saskatchewan farmer Kyle Heggie is ready to take his compost pellets to the field rows in the hopes that they boost crop nutrition
Kyle Heggie has been spreading a unique blend of compost on his crops for years, and has also used on-farm trials to test the practicality of mid-row banding compost “pellets” into the seed row next to the seed.
Manitoba renews 4R nutrient management commitment
Manitoba has renewed its understanding with industry to promote 4R nutrient management as a fertilizer use philosophy on farms
Manitoba has renewed its understanding with industry to promote 4R nutrient management as a fertilizer use philosophy on farms.
Measuring farm emissions from the sky
Radio tower to be fit with sensors to measure how changing farm practices actually are
Radio tower to be fit with sensors to measure how changing farm practices actually are impacting nitrous oxide levels in the atmosphere.
Winter cold doesn’t stop all fertilizer emissions, new research shows
New research shows the Prairie deep freeze slows, but does not stop, nitrogen emissions
Fall fertilizer doesn’t emit nitrogen over winter, right? Wrong, according to new research: biological activity and nitrogen emissions slow, but don’t stop.
VIDEO: Targeting your fertilizer needs using the 4Rs
Nutrient uptake and nutrient removal in crops may sound like the same thing, but they are quite different when it comes to how crops use nutrients as they mature over the growing season. At Manitoba 4R Day last month, Marla Riekman with Manitoba Agriculture spoke about how, and when, major crops – and in some
VIDEO: Making 4R nutrient management work
EMILI field day features farmer experiences, high tech systems and extension education
When Rick Rutherford starts to plan his crop, he begins at the end – the end of the last growing season, that is. The Grosse Isle-area seed grower and owner-operator of Rutherford Farms sits down, current year’s yield map in hand, with agronomist Dave Ives of Enns Brothers to plan for the following spring. “It’s
