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Universe In A Clump Of Dirt

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“If you build it, they will come.” – KRIS NICHOLS Uproot a plant in healthy soil, and you’ll see tiny pellets clinging to the roots. To most people, that’s just dirt. But to farmers in the know, those hard little clumps represent whole towns and cities of soil biota that work together night and day
Opinion

Towards A Sustainable Future

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It is purely coincidental, but it seems somehow fitting that this year’s Manitoba North Dakota Zero-Tillage Farmers Association annual workshop is taking place in Brandon during Manitoba’s first-ever Organic Week. At first glance, it would seem these two production systems are polar opposites. One aims to reduce or eliminate tillage, usually replacing it with chemical
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Crop husbandry makes a comeback

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“Can you see anything else at this show that gives you 20 per cent more yield while spending less money?” – COLIN ROSENGREN When Colin Rosengren was looking for ways to improve the sustainability of farm near Midale, Sask., he turned to the best agronomist he could find – Mother Nature. It was by clueing
Oilseeds, Other

Seed SMART: aim for 10 canola plants per square foot

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Ten plants per square foot should be the plant stand target farmers aim for when they seed canola, says Derwyn Hammond of the Canola Council of Canada. The recommendation is based on a seeding rate of six pounds per acre and the assumption that 70 per cent of the seed sown will survive. Then if
Crops, Oilseeds

Soybean crop surprisingly good in 2008

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It was a year in which almost everything that could go wrong did for Manitoba soybean producers. But in the end, things turned out surprisingly well. “We were very happy with the yields,” said Bruce Brolley, a Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives pulse crop specialist. You wouldn’t have known it from producers attending St.
Crops, Forages, News

Alfalfa seed crop a disaster in 2008

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“There was no good crop anywhere.” – Les Jacobson, MFSA For Manitoba alfalfa seed producers, 2008 was the year they’d just as soon forget. Cool, wet weather throughout most of the growing season produced an alfalfa seed harvest less than half of normal. “There was no good crop anywhere,” said Les Jacobson, Manitoba Forage Seed
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Make wheat like canola, CropLife told

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“One of the things farmers maybe should be interested in is having some control over their own germplasm.” – David Rourke Plant breeders need to make wheat more like canola, farmers said during CropLife Canada’s annual convention in Ottawa last month. “You look at what canola (yield) has done and it has been phenomenal,” Jeff
Crops

Rolling research shows promise

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“These observations suggest that the roller is a legitimate tool for organic farmers and it will even allow them to completely eliminate tillage in some years.” – MARTIN ENTZ Organic farmers might do well to invest in a roller for help in reducing weed pressure. An experiment in its second year at the Ian N.
Crops

High prices make fertilizer a tougher sell

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“In essence, soil tests work only when soils are severely phosphorus deficient.” – RIGAS KARAMANOS, VITERRA Bill Toews saw the price of phosphate fertilizer in the fall of 2007 and decided he’d wait until spring before purchasing what he usually applies to his land near Kane. However, by spring 2008 prices had soared from $600
Crops, News

Cropping system comparisons earn award

A federal project to weigh the long-term sustainability of nine different crop production systems has picked up a government award for its contributions so far. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s 2008 Gold Harvest Award goes to the Alternative Cropping Systems (ACS) Team, which includes Alan Moulin of AAFC’s Brandon Research Cent re and researchers at Saskatchewan

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