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Adjusting production to lower prices is a slow process in crop agriculture
Comment, Crops

Adjusting production to lower prices is a slow process in crop agriculture

Aggregate crop production tends to remain steady in the face of lower prices, 
essentially locking in low prices for long periods of time

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There are several reasons why farmers do not respond in textbook fashion to a reduction in prices by making a proportional reduction in production. Farmers must begin planning for a given crop at least two years before the marketing year for that crop comes to a close. Most of these decisions have to be made
The take-home message for soybean growers and agronomists in Manitoba is not to overdo soybean management, says an Ontario soybean specialist.
Crops, Oilseeds

Soybeans — the ‘kitchen sink’ strategy works, but…

Ontario trials suggest early seeding is the best and cheapest management practice

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Intensive management can improve soybean yields, but growers should evaluate whether each strategy pencils out, says a soybean specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Speaking at the Manitoba Agronomists Conference (MAC) in Winnipeg in December, Horst Bohner described more than a decade of research to evaluate various management strategies to
Measuring seeding rate by the bushel can lead to wide variations in yield.
Cereals, Crops

Determining the best seeding rate for hard red spring wheat

An NDSU researcher finds that different varieties also have different tillering capacities

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The old rule of thumb about seeding 1.5 bushels of wheat per acre just doesn’t apply anymore, says a researcher with North Dakota State University. Variety, seeding date and even latitude make a difference, Grant Mehring told the Manitoba Agronomists Conference in Winnipeg last December. He described his extensive, three-year research trials on seeding rates
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
Rainbow over green wheat field
Crops

Survey to gauge changes in crop rotation

Data needed to measure climate benefit from changes farmers already made

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Rather than wait for new rules on Canadian farms to cut greenhouse gas and carbon emissions, a crop researcher hopes to show how growers may have already helped to do so. Stuart Smyth, a professor in the University of Saskatchewan’s department of bioresources policy, business and economics, on Jan. 15 launched a national online farmer
Wheat crops respond well to better management.
Cereals, Crops

Some don’t like it hot — and that’s key to big wheat yields

Wheat growers should start thinking about frost seeding or 24-hour seeding 
shifts to get their crop in the ground as early as possible

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It’s time to start treating wheat like it’s a “real crop,” says Ontario agronomist ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson. “Wheat is the most responsive crop to management we grow, and yet it’s the crop that we manage the least,” Peter Johnson said at the Farming Smarter conference last month. “You just put it in the ground and
Two fields with high-enough levels of clubroot to produce yield-robbing galls on canola roots have been found in the Swan River area by agronomist Ryan Immerkar.
Crops, Oilseeds

Two fields of canola with clubroot galls found near Swan River

MAFRD’s advice remains the same: soil test for the pest, extend canola 
in the rotation and seed resistant varieties if appropriate

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Two canola fields in the Swan River Valley had enough clubroot spores this year to produce yield-robbing root galls that characterize the soil-borne disease, says local agronomist Ryan Immerkar, owner of RSI AgriCoaching and New Era Ag Technology. Laboratory testing confirmed the fields have the potentially devastating pest. That brings the number of Manitoba fields
Assiniboine Community College (ACC) will be establishing a weed identification garden after a donation from the Manitoba Zero Tillage Research Association (MZTRA) — MZTRA board chair, Brad Lewis (l), ACC agribusiness instructor, Danielle Tichit.
Crops, Local news

College to build weed identification garden

Assiniboine Community College looks to establish a weed identification garden to 
house more than 80 of Manitoba’s most common annual and perennial weeds

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Southwestern Manitoba will soon be crawling with more weeds but these weeds are for a good cause. Assiniboine Community College is creating a weed identification garden with financial assistance from the defunct Manitoba Zero Tillage Research Association (MZTRA). “The garden will provide students in multiple programs with tangible and real learning opportunities and has the
rye seed
Cereals, Crops

2015 MCVET winter wheat, fall rye data released

Farmers can use this data to make head-to-head comparisons of varietal performance at specific sites

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Since 2008, MCVET (Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team) has been publishing winter cereal data collected from its trials shortly after harvest to help farmers and seed growers in Manitoba make variety decisions. In 2015, data is being released for five locations — Boissevain, Carman, Melita, Roblin and Winnipeg — for winter wheat and fall rye.
Greg Bartley takes producers through his research plots.
Crops, Oilseeds

Black earth doesn’t equate to warmer soil temperatures

Spaces went fast for this year’s Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers SMART Day

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Wagons were filled to capacity and then some at the Ian N. Morrison research farm near Carman late last month, as the Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers held its annual SMART Day for soybean producers and agronomists. “Programs like this are hugely beneficial, especially for guys like myself, who are just realizing that I know

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