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Hemp underseeded with clover.
Crops, News

Keeping hemp company

Studying ways to maximize agricultural potential by underseeding hemp crops

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One Manitoba agriculture research group is trying a few new things with hemp that involve the crop sharing the land. In 2017 and 2018, the Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization (WADO) conducted a study on relay and intercropping with hemp. With most of the data in from that two-year study, WADO’s Scott Chalmers spoke to an
Hemp underseeded with hairy vetch.
Crops, News

Hemp quality starts at the farm

Good agronomy is the starting point to ensure food-grade hemp

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Hemp processors are fixated on quality, and one of the most important links in that chain is at the farm level. Jeff Kostiuk, Hemp Genetics International director of operations, Central Canada, U.S. & international, recently spoke to an audience at the Canadian Hemp Trade Association Conference about what practices growers should work towards when considering
(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Crops, Markets

Canola Council resets course for ‘efficiencies’

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Facing new limits on available funding, Canada’s canola value chain organization plans to refocus its work on its “core strengths” and collaborate with other players. The Canola Council of Canada on Wednesday announced a revised work plan, coming out of a “priorities review” undertaken after one of Canada’s biggest grain companies called a halt to
Why is canola winning acres and not wheat?
Crops

Why is canola winning acres and not wheat?

The percentage increase in yields for both are about the same leaving some to speculate it’s more about demand than genetics or private versus public variety development

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Wheat needs more research money to compete with crops like canola. That’s the message organizers delivered at the first consultation meeting on two new proposed royalty options in Winnipeg Nov. 16. “Cereals are necessary in crop rotations to prevent pest and disease pressures from emerging,” a government slide presentation said. “However, due to declining profitability
Even less competitive crops can benefit from an integrated weed management strategy.
Crops, Other

Crop establishment important for weed management

Combining many tools into an overall integrated weed management strategy is a winner

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There are many components to integrated weed management (IWM) including crop rotation, seeding rates, chemical, cultural and mechanical controls, but one of the most vital aspects of any successful IWM is crop establishment, says Dr. Rob Gulden of the University of Manitoba. At this year’s Crops-A-Palooza event in Portage la Prairie, researchers including Gulden manned
A tour attendee takes a closer look at quinoa variety trials near Melita.
Crops, Local news

To the bin or bust: quinoa a risky proposition

Producers find new challenges with the South American transplant

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Five years after planting his first quinoa crop, Ryan Pengelly of Tamarack Farms near Erickson has tasted success and failure. He’s placed his direct-marketed product on retail shelves and in farmers’ market stalls. He’s also experienced total crop failures other years. Pengelly, like other producers pioneering quinoa in Manitoba, is looking for agronomic answers in
Canola swathed and waiting for harvest in the Interlake on August 8.
Crops, Local news, Other

Bringing in the bread

Cereal and canola growers are smiling after pleasantly surprising yields

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Cool-season crops once again dodged the drought bullet this year, according to the first harvest reports from Manitoba Agriculture, but soybeans may not be as lucky. Dry, hot weather has been among the big conversation starters in agro-Manitoba this year. Despite that, according to farm production adviser Rejean Picard, cool-season crop yields have impressed and
Crop residue burning down, but not out
Crops, Local news, Other

Crop residue burning down, but not out

Dry weather is one reason, but officials say 
there are other factors too

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Fall stubble burning in the Red River Valley used to be as common as spring seeding. But smoke wafting into Winnipeg became such a health hazard in the late 1980s and early 1990s the Manitoba government began regulating crop residue burning in 1992. Now burning permit requests from farmers in the 10 rural municipalities near
Manitoba Agriculture soil management specialist Marla Riekman wants farmers to consider “tillage rotation.”
Crops, Local news

Consider tillage rotation for improved soil management

High-speed, aggressive tillage can erode fields, especially in hilly terrain

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There’s crop rotation, herbicide rotation and now Marla Riekman is advocating for tillage rotation. “There is the idea of rotational tillage where you can use some of your tillage options and use them in the most appropriate spots in your crop rotation,” Manitoba Agriculture’s soil management specialist said in an interview Sept. 7. Riekman isn’t
Holly Derksen, Manitoba Agriculture’s field crop pathologist is leaving her position to work for Arysta LifeScience.
Crops, Local news

Manitoba Agriculture is losing its field crop pathologist

Commodity groups are hoping the position will be filled quickly

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Field crop pathologist Holly Derksen is leaving Manitoba Agriculture Sept. 14 to join Arysta LifeScience Oct. 1 as its technical support specialist for Manitoba. “Obviously I like pathology and that’s what I went to school for, but I didn’t want to lose the general agronomy knowledge that I have,” Derksen said in an interview Aug.

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