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Crop Report – for May. 14, 2009

By Manitoba Agriculture May 14, 2009

SOUTHWEST Precipitation was minimal over the past week and temperatures remained cool. Seeding continued throughout the region as field conditions improved. Seeding of wheat is 20 per cent complete; 65 per cent of pea acres are seeded south of Highway 1 and 45 per cent are seeded north of Hwy. 1. Winter cereal crops have

Crops

Potato Agronomy Meetings Set

May 7, 2009

Manitoba Agri -culture is again organizing a series of spring potato agronomy meetings this June. They’ll be held in Carberry on Tuesday, June 23, Winkler on Wednesday, June 24 and Portage la Prairie on Thursday, June 25. The meeting will provide growers in the area with up-to-date information on growing conditions, potential production issues for

Opinion

Farming To Feed The World – for Apr. 23, 2009

By Alan Guebert April 23, 2009

If you had a nickel for every magazine story that detailed the best ideas to pass your farm or ranch on to your children and grandchildren, you’d have one wealthy farm or ranch to pass on. If, however, you had a nickel for every magazine story that detailed what economic, environmental and political actions are

News

Celebrating Ongoing Progress In Soil Conservation

April 23, 2009

soil conservation council of canada release Most Canadians have seen severe soil erosion. It might be the dramatic images of the dust bowl of the Canadian Prairies replayed as a reminder of the “Dirty Thirties.” Or it might be images of water erosion of severely flooded lands in Eastern Canada. Other than the odd reference

Cereals, Crops

New Glenn CWRS Wheat Rated “Fair” For FHB Tolerance

By Allan Dawson April 16, 2009

“We think best management practices still need to apply (with Glenn) and that may include using a fungicide at relevant times. By no means do we think the farmer can walk away from the agronomics and think that the product is going to look after itself.” – RICHARD KIEPER Glenn, a newly registered Canada Western

Country Crossroads

Extending The Gardening Season

By Donna Gamache April 16, 2009

If you’re one of those gardeners who can’t wait to get some early homegrown vegetables, there are a few inexpensive ways to extend your gardening season – at both ends! One of the easiest ways is by using a “cold frame.” You can buy these, with a plastic cover, but that can be costly if

Cereals, Crops

Devastating New Stem Rust Advances Beyond Africa

By Ron Friesen April 9, 2009

“It’s probably not a matter of if but when.” –TOM FETCH, AAFC “Behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. And behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprang up after them. And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full

News

Conservation Tillage Story A Template For Innovation

By Laura Rance-Unger April 9, 2009

“You have technological things on top of economics on top of policy on top of psychological factors and this is what creates innovation.” – MURRAY FULTON When Prairie farmers think of conservation tillage, they think of things like economics, weed control and crop rotations. When academics like the University of Saskatchewan’s Murray Fulton think of

Crops, News

Summerfallow Was An Accident Of History

By Laura Rance-Unger April 9, 2009

Historians have dutifully chronicled the 1885 Battle of Batoche in Saskatchewan for its role quashing the Métis uprising led by Louis Riel. But less well known is how it caused the newly arrived agrarian settlers to take a wrong turn in soil management – one that would prove devastating to future generations and take more

Opinion

Innovation Capacity

By Laura Rance-Unger April 2, 2009

You could say mad scientists and farmers operating on the lunatic fringe brought about one of the greatest innovations of 20th century agriculture. Some might go so far as to suggest it has saved Prairie farming – from plowing itself into a dusty oblivion. Zero tillage or no-till farming, as it has come to be

Daily Network News

Klassen: Stronger barley prices weigh on feeder cattle values

Russia stops ammonium nitrate exports for one month amid global supply crunch

Manitoba farmland values jumped 12.2% in 2025, biggest gain in Canada

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