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Made-in-Canada sustainability approach gains support

The ALL initiative is endorsed at the G20 ag ministers' meeting for putting research into fields

By Alex Binkley August 29, 2018

The world needs more Canada — at least when it comes to a sustainable agriculture initiative that’s garnered global attention. The Canadian-led initiative called Agroecosystems Living Labs (ALL) shows how to raise food sustainably in the face of climate change. It has been endorsed at the annual meeting of G20 agriculture ministers. ALL brings scientists,

News

AAFC funds Crop Agronomy Cluster

The cluster consists of eight research activities ranging from soil health to herbicide resistance and climate change adaptation

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 7, 2018

Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lawrence MacAulay recently announced $6.3 million for the Western Grains Research Foundation for a five-year ‘Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster.’ The WGRF said the cluster has been established because Canadian farmers face agronomic challenges that cut across multiple crops, and there are gaps in multi-crop and systems approaches to agronomic research. The

Farm management specialist Darren Bond (r) says a calculator on the MAFRI website can help calculate break-even costs.

Crops

To spray or not to spray for fungal disease

You don’t have to just pencil it in and spray anyway — there are tools to help make the decision

By Julienne Isaacs August 7, 2018

To spray or not to spray for fungal diseases? Will the extra yield offset the cost? In practice this decision is often made based on farmers’ comfort levels, but economics should always be considered, said Holly Derksen, field crop pathologist for Manitoba Agriculture, at this year’s Crop Diagnostic School in Carman. “You have to understand

Crops, News, Other

Intercropping coming closer

Research centres are building on their knowledge  base through the trial-and-error approach

By Alexis Stockford August 2, 2018

There are signs of both success and failure amongst the intercrop plots at Melita’s Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization. Some look great. Others are nothing but bare soil where nothing established. In others the crops aren’t playing well together and underseeded legumes are set to overtake the crop they were supposed to support. That’s just fine

Kristen MacMillan, the University of Manitoba’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences’ agronomist in residence, talks to students in the field  about how a soybean plot trial is developing.

Crops, Oilseeds

Putting class theory into soybean field practice

The University of Manitoba has introduced a new hands-on field course designed to introduce research principles to help second-year diploma students apply learning from their first year of study

By Lorraine Stevenson July 31, 2018

Students studying agriculture at University of Manitoba took their studies outside this summer as participants in a first-ever course being offered those in their second year of the agriculture diploma program. The field class is instructed by pulse crops expert and U of M’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences’ agronomist in residence Kristen MacMillan,

Attendees to the MPSG SMART Day take a look at a shallow-seeded soybean, compared to the swollen hypocotyls of one planted too deep and in compacted soil.

Crops, Oilseeds, Other

How deep is too deep when chasing moisture for soybeans?

A University of Manitoba researcher thinks there should be more attention paid to soybean seeding depth

By Alexis Stockford July 27, 2018

Soybean growers may have been tempted to dig deep for seeding this year, but University of Manitoba researcher Kristen MacMillan says the data may not back up that practice. The Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers puts ideal seed depth between three-quarters of an inch and an inch and a half below the soil surface. Dry

Dr. Alison Nelson outlines her ongoing study on seed potato management and what it means for processing crops the next year during the 2018 Manitoba Potato Production Days in Brandon.

Crops, News

Warming seed potatoes had outsized effect on crop

Pre-seed storage may have more impact on processing crop than how the seed crop was managed in the field

By Alexis Stockford May 2, 2018

The quality of a potato harvest might have more to do with how seeds were stored than how they were treated in the field the previous year. Alison Nelson, agronomist and researcher at Carberry’s Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre, says warming up seed before planting may have more impact on a processing crop than most in-season

Yvonne Lawley (l) presenting tillage research to growers at a field meeting last summer.

Crops, Oilseeds

Soybeans raise tillage issues

As the low-residue crop creeps into new areas, new techniques are needed

By Gord Gilmour April 16, 2018

Agriculture researcher Yvonne Lawley doesn’t want Manitoba farmers to rethink soybeans — she wants them to consider techniques to incorporate them into their production system more safely. The University of Manitoba professor says the crop’s earned a reputation as a soil buster, and at times that’s warranted. But they also bring a lot to the

CanoLAB and SoyLAB attendees get a crash course  in weed identification in Dauphin March 15.

Crops

CanoLAB adds soybeans to the agenda

The two-day event hoped to get a better idea on managing canola  and soybeans for growers who increasingly want to grow both

By Alexis Stockford March 28, 2018

Growers were looking for more than just canola knowledge from CanoLAB this year. Soybeans also stole the show. Put on annually by canola commodity groups, CanoLAB is usually a major stop for everything from canola fertilization and weed control to disease pressures and beneficial insects. This was the first year, however, that the Manitoba Pulse

Agronomist Peter Johnson doesn’t like Manitoba’s tight rotations.

Crops, Other

Tight crop rotations in the hot seat

Rotations were a major point as discussions turned to blackleg during this year’s BASF Knowledge Harvest

By Alexis Stockford March 21, 2018

It’s all but impossible to eliminate sclerotinia and blackleg from the field, but it’s also a mistake to assume crop genetics alone will manage the problem. BASF technical service specialist Colleen Redlick said farmers need to broaden their approach during the BASF Knowledge Harvest in Brandon earlier this winter. Resistance breakdown, something the industry has

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