Holly Derksen of Manitoba Agriculture talks about the spread of Goss’s Wilt in Manitoba and what corn growers can do to manage the bacterial disease, in this video recorded at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon.
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VIDEO: Corn: Is Goss’s Wilt on the rise in Manitoba?
VIDEO: A carbon pricing approach for Manitoba farmers
At Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon, Sean Goertzen of Keystone Agricultural Producers spoke about what may lie ahead for carbon pricing in Manitoba and the two-pronged approach its proposing to the provincial government that could ultimately help benefit local agriculture.
VIDEO: Get ready to sell your new crop canola
Prepare to sell new crop canola soon and more than you might normally, said Oil World’s Thomas Mielke at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon on Jan. 17. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson hears the reason why. Related: Canola prices seen rising on high prices
VIDEO: Grain entrapment unit demonstrated at Ag Days
Canadian Agricultural Safety Association soon to have BEGRAINSAFE unit to call its own
Glen Blahey of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) talks about the BEGRAINSAFE unit that was on display and demonstrated to attendees at Ag Days. While the unit on this video is on loan from the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety in Iowa, CASA is building its own grain entrapment demo unit that it
Editorial: Show time
By the time this issue of the Manitoba Co-operator is off to the printer, I will, like many others in the sector, be headed to Brandon for Ag Days. Like most other attendees I’ll enjoy the opportunity to see the latest and greatest in agriculture technology and catching up with old friends and business associates
VIDEO: Ag Days Inventor’s Showcase winner
Arnold Innovations' AI100-Lexion hydraulic ratcheting wrench
Plugging your combine is one of those things you don’t want to see – but it happens – now there’s a hydraulic ratcheting wrench that can make the task of unplugging your Claas Lexion series combine much easier. Arnold Innovations’ returns to Manitoba Ag Days this year with a new wrench design, and for its efforts, it took home
Climate change needs ‘made in Manitoba solution: Eichler
Province discusses flooding at Ag Days
The Manitoba government is still working on its climate change plan, agriculture minister Ralph Eichler and Premier Brian Pallister told reporters during separate scrums at Ag Days, Jan. 17. Before Christmas Eichler said the plan would be revealed early this year. “We only have one chance to do this,” Eichler said. “That is why a
Manitoba government to consult with KAP to make its checkoff more efficient
The current system is often frustrating to farmers and farm product buyers and costly to KAP
The Manitoba government is going to change the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) refundable funding checkoff, Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler announced at Ag Days Jan. 17. “The current funding structure creates needless and excessive administration costs for farmers and KAP and purchasers of agricultural products,” Eichler said. “A review of the system is something that the
New safe handling program announced at Ag Days
CASA launches BEGRAINSAFE program
A new exhibit for the BEGRAINSAFE program launched by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is on display at Ag Days this week. The interactive trade show display and a mobile entrapment trailer demonstration unit in the Westman Place Arena aim to help educate farmers about the risks associated with handling grain. The risks are rising,
Canola acres seen rising on high prices
Brandon | Reuters — Canadian canola plantings may rise slightly in spring as farmers seek to cash in before an expected drop in vegetable oil prices as palm crops recover from drought that hit major Southeast Asian producers, German oilseed analysis firm Oil World said Tuesday. Plantings will rise by less than 10 per cent