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Study Says Upping Inputs Could Drive Down Profits

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From their perch at the University of Minnesota, graduate students Wade Kent and Landon Reis have seen a clear trend emerge over the past few years. Higher prices have soybean growers throwing everything they could find – higher seeding rates, more fertility inputs, and more crop protection products – at their crops in order to
Cereals, News

Weeds Shift To Meet New Farming Practices

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The widespread adoption of zero or minimum tillage has led to subtle changes in weed populations in Manitoba, according to the provincial weed specialist, Nasir Shaihk. In the 1970s, when tillage was widespread, the top three weeds were volunteer barley, dog mustard and field horsetail. An examination of weed survey results stretching back over the
Crops, Forages

Properly Done, Organic Grain Is A Money-Maker

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Narrow rows, early seeding, and heavier seeding rates are just some of the strategies organic farmer Ian Cushon uses to fight weeds on his 3,600-acre organic farm on the fringes of the black soil zone near Oxbow, Sask. “In terms of weed management and crop competition, seeding equipment I think is the most important equipment
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Bioproducts Become Part Of The Rural Economy

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Mark Myrowich describes his product as a big sandwich, with nets instead of bread and straw instead of meat, rolled up like a carpet and delivered to construction sites for erosion control. This strange-sounding item is one of many the Manitoba government plans to support with $20 million over the next 10 years as part
Opinion

A Farmer’s Friend Is Lost

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Many will mourn the passing of John Harapiak, who succumbed last week to cancer. The highly respected agronomist spent more than 40 years of his life serving western Canadian farmers through his work in soil fertility research and extension. Dubbed an “agricultural icon” by his colleagues, he was best known for his steadfast commitment to
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Hemp Fibre-Processing Facility Going Up

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After five years of planning, construction of the province’s first large-scale hemp fibre-processing plant near Gilbert Plains has begun. A handful of dignitaries were present for a groundbreaking ceremony last week as the first steel beams were erected on the site. Robert Jin, president of Plains Industrial Hemp Processing, first announced his plan to build
Crops

Crop Advisers — Only You Know If You Need One

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More complex decisions, more chemicals with tighter scheduling requirements, and more paperwork are driving many farmers to work with crop advisers. But at least one researcher isn’t convinced farmers need all the advice they are buying. “I think many farmers don’t really need an agronomist,” says Alberta Agriculture agronomy research scientist, Ross McKenzie. “You need
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WGRF Approves $3.8-Million Breeding Tools Initiative

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Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) has approved an Endowment Fund Directed Research Program fund of $3.8 million over the next five years for an initiative to develop genomic tools, increase genomic capacity, and enhance the use of doubled haploid in cereal crop-breeding programs. Most Canadian breeding programs already utilize some doubled haploid and genomic technology.
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Uncertainty Threatens Research Investment In Canada

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Syngenta Canada president Jay Bradshaw says wheat is Canada’s next “Cinderella” crop, but warns that the opportunity could be lost if governments stray from science-based regulations, discouraging private research investment. “My biggest competitors are inside our own global research budget,” Bradshaw told the Western Canadian Wheat Growers convention in Vancouver last week. “We need to
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WGRF Funds Doubled-Haploid Technology

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Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) has announced $3.8 million in funding over the next five years to develop genomic tools, increase genomic capacity, and enhance the use of doubled haploid in cereal-crop- breeding programs. The WGRF says most Canadian breeding programs already utilize some of this technology, but the full potential is not being exploited

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