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Oats and alfalfa to reduce Corn Belt erosion?

By Union Of Concerned Scientists Release May 31, 2017

A new study released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that modified three- and four-crop farming systems could be scaled up and adopted widely in Corn Belt states, generating benefits to farmers and taxpayers worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The analysis builds on a long-term study at Iowa State University, known as

Comment, Opinion

It’s time to make soil great again

Continuing to lose topsoil will make it harder to feed a growing population

By David R. Montgomery May 29, 2017

David R. Montgomery is a professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is author of the award-winning non-fiction book, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, and his latest book, Growing A Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life was to be released in May. This article was originally published

Crops

Disc tillage not the only answer to corn residue

Recent research on the effect of corn on subsequent soybean crops suggests there may be other alternatives

By Alexis Stockford May 17, 2017

Producers may want to look beyond disc tillage to deal with corn residue, according to research co-funded by the Manitoba Corn Growers Association. In a two-year comparison of four residue treatments and their effect on soybeans, Patrick Walther and Yvonne Lawley of the University of Manitoba found that low-tillage treatments yielded the same soybean crop

A simple pair of cotton underwear can tell you a surprising amount about your soil health.

Crops

Planning for a bumper crop of underwear

The Soil Conservation Council of Canada is hoping underwear will be neither tight nor white  after two months in the ground

By Alexis Stockford April 21, 2017

Cotton underwear should be the latest tool producers use to measure soil health. Soil Your Undies, a campaign pushed by the Soil Conservation Council of Canada as part of its 30th annual awareness week April 16-22, encourages Canadians to bury a pair of cotton underwear for two months. If soil is healthy, with a healthy

Getting an early start is every farmer’s goal, but sometimes too early can be a problem.

Crops

You may be ready for seeding, but is your land?

That early start to seeding is desirable, but not without some risks to manage

By Gord Gilmour April 18, 2017

There’s little doubt that in recent years Manitoba farmers have been getting the crop in earlier and earlier. More tracked tractors, different seeder designs, management changes such as getting more work done in the fall and the ability to place more fertilizer at seeding time, has all added up, says Rejean Picard, a farm production

Manitoba Agriculture’s John Heard says many farmers are being forced to  adjust their fertility strategy after a tough fall.

Crops

Farmers adjust fertility plans after tough fall

There’s still plenty of opportunity to get nitrogen on if you missed the fall application window

By Gord Gilmour April 18, 2017

While spring banding of fertilizer has become more popular recently, there’s still plenty of growers putting it down in the fall. That is, unless they run into a season like last year. Many farmers throughout Manitoba struggled to just get the crop off, never mind getting their fall work done. Now they’re left with the

Crops

Intercropping wheat and soys makes for tighter rotation

The Kutz family has had to improvise but their ideas are working

By John Greig April 5, 2017

At Kutz Farms LLC in Wisconsin, the Kutz family decided that planting corn on corn repeatedly may be good short-term economics, but it was bad long term for their soil’s health. As a result, John Kutz, his father and father-in-law created a new system that gives them three crops in two years, but doesn’t include

Tom Sewell shared how he went to complete no-till seeding in Britain.

Crops

British no-tillers worry about potential loss of glyphosate

But Tom Sewell says he’ll still find a way to continue his no-till system

By John Greig March 29, 2017

A pioneer in British no-till farming said there’s a good chance European farmers will lose access to glyphosate. “It’s a French and German thing,” said Tom Sewell at the Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario conference recently in London. The politics of those two countries mean that there is pressure to ban the herbicide which is

News

Neonic replacement not popular with farmers or beekeepers

They’re too expensive, ineffective and still harmful to bees, to cite just some of the concerns expressed

By Alex Binkley March 21, 2017

A proposed replacement for a key neonicotinoid pesticide is proving unpopular with everyone — including farmers and beekeepers. Farmers adopted neonic pesticides because they were safer and didn’t damage the environment as older pesticides did. With one of the three used in Canada being phased out, the search for replacements is on. Mark Brock, chairman

Speaker Clayton Robins gives a first-hand account of cover crops as used on his own operation in Rivers, Man., Mar. 1.

Crops, Local news

Soil management, cover crops and recouping costs explored

Farm-specific cover crop integration was the backbone of the latest Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association grazing club workshop

By Alexis Stockford March 15, 2017

Clayton Robins knows something about fighting soil salinity. His farm, located near Rivers, Man., sits on top of what he’s described as “starry night” soil, speckled with white pockets of high salt content. It’s an issue he says has largely disappeared since he first added a secondary NS simultaneous crop focused on soil management rather

Daily Network News

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

U.S. grains: soybeans firm ahead of USDA data

Prairie CWRS bids rise, other wheats mixed

Tag Archives Agronomy

Oats and alfalfa to reduce Corn Belt erosion?

It’s time to make soil great again

Disc tillage not the only answer to corn residue

Planning for a bumper crop of underwear

You may be ready for seeding, but is your land?

Farmers adjust fertility plans after tough fall

Intercropping wheat and soys makes for tighter rotation

British no-tillers worry about potential loss of glyphosate

Neonic replacement not popular with farmers or beekeepers

Soil management, cover crops and recouping costs explored

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