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Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 14

Conditions as of August 2, 2016

By Manitoba Agriculture August 3, 2016

Winter wheat and fall rye harvest is underway in Manitoba. To date, preliminary reports indicate winter wheat yields range from 60 to 95 bu/acre, and fall rye yields range from 40 to 90 bu/acre. Weekend thunderstorms resulted in variable amounts of precipitation, hail activity and lodging of crops across some areas of Manitoba. The majority

Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 12

Conditions as of July 18, 2016

By Manitoba Agriculture July 19, 2016

Generally good growing conditions continue to advance crops across Manitoba. Localized thunderstorms did result in significant precipitation amounts and crop lodging in some areas of the province. Majority of acres and crop types are in the flowering and grain fill stages of development. Disease pressure and insect activity continues to be monitored as the growing

Weeds are more obvious when looking at a wheat crop down (r) than looking at it sideways, says Manitoba Department of Agriculture weed specialist Jeanette Gaultier.

Crops, Local news, Weather

Recent rains help crops and weeds

Herbicide-resistant weeds make controlling weeds even harder

By Allan Dawson June 10, 2016

Most Manitoba farmers needed the rain, but wet fields have delayed weed spraying, says Manitoba Department of Agriculture weed specialist Jeanette Gaultier. Dry soils delay weed emergence, but the recent rains and warmer weather have triggered germination, creating a green carpet of weeds in some fields. “The crop is going to pop, but so are

Cereals, Crops

Winter Cereals Manitoba ponders plant breeding

End-point royalties are unlikely to be popular with farmers and are viewed as unfair and inefficient

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2016

Winter Cereals Manitoba members are grappling with how farmers can best fund development of new wheat and barley varieties. It’s part of a sector-wide soul searching for checkoff-funded wheat and barley groups across the Prairies, prompted by the ongoing need for new varieties and the changing funding landscape following the move to an open market.

The late John Smith (l) of Seed Depot and his son Walter at the 2015 Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) after two of Seed Depot’s varieties — Faller and Prosper — were recommended for interim registration. Both varieties, along with FP Genetic’s Elgin ND, were recommended for full registration at the PRCWRT meeting last week. John Smith started working on Faller’s registration in 2012, but passed away Sept. 3, 2015, before seeing his efforts rewarded.

Crops

Faller, Prosper and Elgin ND recommended for full registration in new CNHR class

What does it mean for the future of western Canadian milling wheat?

By Allan Dawson March 11, 2016

The late John Smith has left a lasting legacy for Prairie farmers. Smith, a Pilot Mound farmer who was also president of Seed Depot until his death in September, began the process of registering the high-yielding U.S. dark northern spring wheat variety Faller in 2012. On Feb. 25 the variety, along with Prosper and Elgin

Our History

XXRays Gang Plow and a combined harvester and thresher

Our History: September 1898

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 24, 2015

The XXRays Gang Plow advertised in the September 1898 issue of the Nor-West Farmer was said to penetrate “anything plowable, and draws 50 to 75 pounds lighter than other plows doing the same work.” The lifting spring was so powerful that “a 12 years old boy can easily operate it.” Among other machinery mentioned in

Dale Alderson (l) and Don Campbell of Intel Seed beside the company’s seven-chute AMVT optical sorter.

Crops, News

Optical sorters can add value to grain by taking bad stuff out

By Allan Dawson September 11, 2015

Optical sorters, used to remove unwanted material in grain, are constantly improving and becoming more affordable, says Dale Alderson of Intel Seed. Nowadays a sorter can remove nearly 100 per cent of the ergot in a cereal crop, take wild oats out of tame ones and dramatically reduce the percentage of fusarium-damaged kernels in wheat.

Crops, Local news

Northern Quinoa aiming for 100,000 acres

Quinoa growers wanted — with the right location and right rotation

By Shannon VanRaes September 11, 2015

Get ready to see more quinoa waving in the Prairie breeze. Saskatchewan-based Northern Quinoa Corp. is preparing to increase its acres nearly twentyfold over the next three years. The company has about 5,250 acres of the ancient grain under contract this summer, but it would like to see 100,000 acres across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba

Cereals, Crops

2015 MCVET winter wheat, fall rye data released

Farmers can use this data to make head-to-head comparisons of varietal performance at specific sites

By Pam De Rocquigny September 9, 2015

Since 2008, MCVET (Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team) has been publishing winter cereal data collected from its trials shortly after harvest to help farmers and seed growers in Manitoba make variety decisions. In 2015, data is being released for five locations — Boissevain, Carman, Melita, Roblin and Winnipeg — for winter wheat and fall rye.

Crop breeder Doug Cattani is working with a variety of potential perennial crops but says intermediate wheatgrass right now looks the most promising.

Crops, Local news

Perennial grain crops are one step closer

The goal is to find ways to grow food that will reduce the need  for fertilizers, herbicides, and annual seed purchase

By Lorraine Stevenson August 31, 2015

Seed it once, then sell everything except the combine and just keep harvesting year after year. It might not work out quite that way, but a perennial grain crop that can withstand cold Prairie winters is a little closer to reality for Canadian farmers. University of Manitoba perennial crop breeder Doug Cattani has been at

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Good weather pushes Alberta harvest along

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