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Unearthing The Potential

August 25, 2011

As I looked down at the thick mat of rotting vegetation PhD student Caroline Halde was holding up for me to peruse, it was hard to fathom – at first – why anyone but the most devoted of researchers would find this exciting. I was at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm

Country Crossroads

Try Sowing Seeds For A Fall Crop

August 25, 2011

Late summer is the ideal time to start your fall garden. You may be able to grow a “second season” crop of your favourite cool-season vegetables and lovely fall flowers. Now is the time to gear up for some additional growing weather, which lies in the cooler season ahead. WHAT TO GROW Sometimes, gardeners don’t

Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Aug. 11, 2011

By Manitoba Agriculture August 11, 2011

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall varied throughout the region with amounts ranging from 60 mm in the Deloraine/ Medora areas, lesser amounts north to Hamiota and five to 10 mm in the Shoal Lake areas. Winter wheat and fall rye harvest has started and by the end of the week general harvest of these crops will be

Crops, Oilseeds

Perils Of Broadcast Seeding Outlined At Crop Tour

By Laura Rance-Unger July 28, 2011

A Carman-area canola field offers dramatic proof that agronomists weren’t kidding last spring when they advised farmers not to broadcast seed canola unless they could follow up with harrows. Provincial weed specialist Nasir Shaikh said the field was aerially seeded with a Clearfield herbicide-tolerant variety by air and the producer was able to cover part

Crops, Opinion

Simple Solutions To The Food Challenge

By John Morriss July 7, 2011

Last month a milestone was marked in the history of world agriculture when the bovine disease rinderpest was officially declared eradicated. Though unknown in North America, rinderpest or “cattle plague” has been a devastating killer of cattle and wildlife for millennia in Europe, Africa and Asia. After smallpox, it’s only the second disease in history

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

A Spring We Would Rather Forget

By Les Mcewan July 7, 2011

It must be summer. They show up like visiting relatives on the doorstep and they don’t know when to leave. Wood ticks, mosquitoes and black flies that think the Parklands have just moved down to the international border. Adding injury to the insult of the spring that never really happened, farmers across the province have

Crops, Oilseeds

Soggy Soils, New Lessons At Crop School

By Allan Dawson July 7, 2011

The wet weather that has plagued Manitoba farmers also hit the Crop Diagnostic School. But organizer John Heard says that just makes the school more relevant. “We always say it’s better for us to make the mistakes than farmers,” said Heard, a soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI). The 2011

Cereals, Crops, News

One More Seeding Option

By Allan Dawson June 23, 2011

The crop insurance deadlines for annual crops have passed, but farmers still have an opportunity to generate a salable crop from those unseeded acres – while controlling weeds and soaking up some of that excess moisture. Extension agronomists and cattle producers are urging crop farmers with unseeded acres to grow greenfeed. With so many pastures

Crops

Rural Schools Pursue New Way Of Teaching Agriculture

By Lorraine Stevenson June 23, 2011

They caught and identified bugs, walked the banks of the Boyne River looking for evidence of riverbank erosion, spoke to weed and soil specialists about biodiversity, ecosystems and farm production systems. And while that might sound like any other end-of-school-year field trip, for about 100 Grade 10 students in south-central Manitoba, the visit to the

Crops, Forages, News

Cool, Damp Weather Could Lower Alfalfa Quality

By Ron Friesen June 16, 2011

The cool, wet weather this spring may be having a negative effect on the quality of alfalfa as well as yield. Preliminary tests by the Manitoba Forage Council show the fibre content of first-cut alfalfa is higher than usual. If that continues, Manitoba cattle producers could have double trouble with alfalfa crops this year. Yields

Daily Network News

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