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From left: Geertje Doornbos, Carlene Dmytriw and James Carriere.
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Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers staffs up for summer

Three temporary additions to the staff roster will give MPSG the 
ability to deliver more services over the summer

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Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers (MPSG) has hired three summer students to deliver agronomy research and services throughout the province. The team will focus exclusively on conducting independent research, implementing the association’s comprehensive research and production program, and engaging with industry partners, stakeholders, and farmers. Geertje Doornbos, an agrononomy research intern from Carman, will assist
Soybean Field
Opinion

Farmland. They never stopped making it

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Forty-five years ago, anyone in agriculture was offered the same advice: “Buy land; they’re not making it anymore.” But “they” were making it, lots of it. According to United Nations data, the world’s farmable land base grew by about 240 million acres between 1971 and 1991. The “not-making-it-anymore” believers, however, plunged ahead and U.S. land
Editorial: Balancing wheat research
Opinion

Editorial: Balancing wheat research

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No Prairie farmer worth his or her salt would admit to not being good at growing wheat. Farmers have been growing wheat in these parts for more than 200 years and they’ve earned quite a reputation for themselves selling it to the world. But a former senior federal research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Gabe Brown is pictured while hosting a field tour on his North Dakota operation in October 2015.
Crops

Cover cropping – tips of the trade

Cover crop grower Gabe Brown says the best place to start when designing a species mix is to understand what your field needs and find the species that best addresses those issues

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The first step to success using cover crops is defining the problem you need to fix. Gabe Brown, a North Dakota farmer and cover crop advocate, told an April 6 Ducks Unlimited grazing club meeting in Lenore that too often farmers plant before they truly have a strategy. “The first thing you need to do
Cutaway of Plant and Roots in Dirt
Comment, Crops

Healthy soils mean a sustainable future

Causes, consequences of and solutions to soil erosion are always connected

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Healthy societies and healthy economies are the product of healthy soil. Healthy soil produces abundant inexpensive food in a sustainable and reliable way. This requires soil care on the part of land managers and courage on the part of policy-makers who oversee soil protection. Scientists who understand soil formation tell us the only sustainable way
A pea/oat/tillage radish cover crop seeded in early August, pictured on October 17.
Crops

Cover crops breaking out of livestock niche

Benefits of cover crops shown to accrue to grain portion of mixed operations, causing some without livestock to consider them

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Cover crops could be a game changer for Manitoba, and not just for mixed crop and livestock operations. Typically those farms have been the earliest adopters of this new technique, said Michael Thiele, who works with the province’s grazing clubs through a Ducks Unlimited program. “These guys growing cover crops are finding that using and
Most fields may have dried out from floods in 2010 and 2011, but there’s a lingering effect from compaction and poor aeration.
Crops, Weather

A wet cycle has caused some farmers to rethink zero till

Seeding & Tillage Focus: As the province’s wet cycle appears poised to break, soil compaction is a lingering after-effect

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The past few years have been a bit hard on zero till in Manitoba. Faced with a flood followed by a long wet cycle, more and more farmers in the southwest part of the province were forced to do something they thought they’d left in the past — pull out their tillage implements. Their aim,
Eight tips for growing flax
Crops

Eight tips for growing flax

Agronomy researcher Chris Holzapfel shares what he’s learned about growing flax

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If you count each research plot as a crop, Chris Holzapfel – a research manager for the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation – has grown more crops in a few years than most farmers have a chance to grow in a lifetime. Holzapfel’s research includes several different crops, but at a recent Saskatchewan Oilseed Producer
Pratisara Bajracharya, field crop pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development spoke on clubroot at the Dauphin Agriculture Society’s Farm Outlook 2016 held on March 10.
Crops, Oilseeds

Careful management key to keeping clubroot level low in province

Experts call for soil testing, scouting and diligent rotations to keep clubroot at low levels

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Manitoba canola growers aren’t facing the full mischievousness of clubroot — yet. The soil-borne disease is a major issue for farmers in other locales, where it limits cropping options, stunts plants and hampers yield. Provincial specialists say they hope it remains a mild problem here, and scouting and diligent crop rotation will be the key

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