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Field day attendees get a look at the pivot-mounted radiometers, one of AAFC’s efforts to nail down variable-rate irrigation and mapping at Carberry’s CMCDC this year.
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Potato researchers delve into variable-rate irrigation

Potato producers are hearing more about variable-rate technology, but researchers at Carberry are trying to dig up some concrete numbers on the technology

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If there’s a perfect recipe for success when it comes to variable-rate irrigation in potatoes, the researchers at the Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre (CMCDC) are still trying to find it. The idea of variable-rate irrigation is hardly new. As early as 2012, news of field trials was coming out of Alberta, although one of the
Crops, News

Row cropping potatoes may be headed over the hill

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While potato growers in other regions have seen bed planting come into fashion over the past few years, it’s very early days here in Manitoba. In fact there’s just one operation in the province using the system, the Berry family, at their Glenboro-area Over and Under the Hill Farms. Chad Berry says this is the
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Late Blight Found In Tomatoes

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The first case of late blight, the bane of Manitoba tomato growers last year, was confirmed last week on garden tomatoes in Ashern. Five cases of the fungal disease responsible for the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s, have been detected in potatoes, including in a “sentinel” plot at the Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre near
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MAFRI Extension Takes On A Whole New Mandate

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When the Manitoba Agriculture Department in late 2004 announced a major reorganization to its extension service, some predicted the demise of farm extension in the province. After all, the signs weren’t good in the rest of the country. A number of provinces, especially Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario, were cent ral izing, downs izing and, in
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

The Butternut Squash Rediscovered

“Don’t forget to plant the butternut squash…” I kept urging my husband this spring, who does the bulk of the spring garden work every year. He didn’t forget. A good thing too. We lost most of our garden’s potatoes to blight this year. But in our basement cold room where potatoes in gunny sacks would
Crops

New Crop For Local Brewers May Be Possible

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Crack open a cold one and hold it under your nose. Now take a deep slurp. The aroma you smell and the bitterness you taste come from hops, a flavouring and stabilizing ingredient used in beer making. Right now, all the hops used by breweries in Manitoba is imported. But in a few years, with
Beef cattle, News

What’s Up – for Jun. 18, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 June 16-19– Canadian Co-operative Association congress and annual general meeting, Westin Ottawa, 11 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa. Theme: “Celebrating a century of co-operation.” For more info call 613-238-6711, ext. 243, or visit www. coopscanada. coop/100th/congress. cfm. June 17-19 – Western Canada Farm Progress Show, Evraz Place
Beef cattle, News

What’s Up – for Jun. 11, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 June 12-14 – Heifer International fifth annual Project Partners’ meeting, Clearwater. Includes skill-building workshops and keynote speech Saturday by Ken Meter of Crossroads Resource Group in Minnesota (Clearwater United Church, 8 p. m.). For more info call Deb at 306-665-1001 or e-mail [email protected],or call Pam at
Beef cattle, News

What’s Up – for Jun. 4, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 June 2-6 – International Wheat Quality Conference IV, Radisson Hotel, Saskatoon. For more info visit www.usask.ca/iwqc4. June 3-5 – World Pork Expo, Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines. For more info visit www.worldpork.org. June 12-14 – Heifer International fifth annual Project Partners’ meeting, Clearwater. Includes skill-building workshops

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