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The Most Serious Blunder Of Their Lives

September 24, 2009

I t seems that Manitoba farmers’ periodic attraction for U. S. wheat varieties of uncertain quality is not a recent phenomenon. This item appeared in the January 1886 issue of the Nor-West Farmer. The Northwestern Miller in a recent editorial says: it may be sad news to the London miller that a large number of

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Heat Wave Helps Wheat, Barley Crops

By Rod Nickel September 24, 2009

Warm, late-summer weather has Canadian farmers reaping bigger and better harvests than they expected in midsummer, when slow growth and bad weather suggested a potential crop disaster. Farmers now look to escape a year of drought, flooding and cool temperatures across the Prairies with slightly below-average-size crops of wheat and barley and average quality, said

Cereals, Crops, Forages, News, Oilseeds

Comments From Our Weathernet

September 17, 2009

Harvest continues. Most of the early wheat and barley are off, with some early canola in the bin. An early frost is still a concern for the beans and corn. – Miami, Sept. 10 How quickly we forget the dreary summer we had. It has been beautiful for the last week with highs in the

Crops, Opinion, Pulses

Touring The Drought Zone

By Kevin Hursh September 3, 2009

This will not go down in history as one of the big drought years in Saskatchewan. When everything is tallied, 2009 will not rival years such as 1988 and 2002 for crop-related drought losses. In early July, the drought conditions in west-central and northwest Saskatchewan were steadily worsening. Farm group leaders and opposition politicians were

Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Aug. 27, 2009

By Manitoba Agriculture August 27, 2009

SOUTHWEST Rainfall accumulations ranged from 10 mm in the Melita area to 60 mm in the northern areas of the region. Winter wheat harvest continued, as most producers were harvesting before the rain on the weekend. North of Highway 1, most producers have desiccated winter wheat but very little harvesting has been done. Yields to

Crops, News

Organic Systems Explore Sustainable Options

By Laura Rance-Unger August 6, 2009

“Sixty-five pounds of nitrogen per acre is very possible in Manitoba.” – MARTIN ENTZ Researchers tending the fields at the University of Manitoba’s research farm here have another duty to add to their daily roster – moving sheep. A small flock of ewes and lambs has taken up residence on site as part of the

Crops, Forages, News

MZTRA Farm Sees Big Benefits From Alfalfa

By Daniel Winters July 23, 2009

“It may be one of the methods that we can help the guys in the heavier clay soils down in the Red River Valley move into a reduced-tillage regime.” – LINDSAY COULTHARD It’s hard not to like alfalfa. But Lindsay Coulthard’s feel ings for the nitrogen-fixing legume go a little deeper than most. During a

News

Black, Rich And Found All Over

By Daniel Winters July 16, 2009

Manitoba already has a provincial bird, the great grey owl. Our provincial flower is the prairie crocus. Soon we’ll have an official provincial soil too – Newdale. To the layman, Newdale is that nice black earth that grows really nice crops found around Brandon up to the Riding Mountains. Unlike the other Class 2 contender,

Crops, Forages

Manitoba Crops Vary But Not Too Bad Overall

By Ron Friesen July 9, 2009

“A lot of seeding just did not get done.” – THELMA BLAHEY, MAFRI Although crop conditions vary greatly throughout the province, Manitoba so far is avoiding the crippling drought raging out west. The one word to describe conditions here would be: variable. Too much rain in some places, not enough in others. Recent storms which

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Canadian Farmers Plant Above-Average Wheat

By Rod Nickel July 9, 2009

Canada’s farmers managed to plant better-than-average crop areas of total wheat, durum and canola despite a cool spring, floods in Manitoba and dry weather elsewhere, Statistics Canada says. The forecast slightly exceeded traders’ estimates of total wheat and canola, Canada’s two biggest crops. “It’s pretty rare for growers not to seed,” said Ken Ball, a

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