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Crops, Forages

No-Tillers Tap Benefits Of Underground Livestock

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North Dakota grain farmer Glenn Bauer is reaping the benefits of “livestock” in his operation – but you’d need a microscope to see most of them. “We don’t have any cows, but we’ve got a lot of livestock that we try to feed below the surface,” Bauer said during a panel presentation on no-till soil
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Feed The Soil So It Can Feed The Crop

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Crop yields in a slump? Disease and insect probalems rife? Input costs chewing up profit margins every year? Before you cur se the weather, bugs, or chemical companies, you might want to consider another cause: Declining soil quality. Modern farming has developed a host of quick-fix solutions but the beneficial effects are temporary if you
Crops, Forages

Properly Done, Organic Grain Is A Money-Maker

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Narrow rows, early seeding, and heavier seeding rates are just some of the strategies organic farmer Ian Cushon uses to fight weeds on his 3,600-acre organic farm on the fringes of the black soil zone near Oxbow, Sask. “In terms of weed management and crop competition, seeding equipment I think is the most important equipment
Crops, News

Blending Farmer Innovation With Science

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A60-bushel-per-acre crop of wheat would make any farmer proud, but how about one that was grown without pesticides or non-organic fertilizer? That’s how organic wheat yielded last year on a 1.5-acre field plot at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm at Carman. The average wheat yield in the R. M. of Dufferin,
Crops, Forages

The Role Of Cover Crops In Healthy Soil

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Want healthier soil, higher yields and lower input costs? Then take a page from Mother Nature’s playbook. That was the message from the recent Cover Crop Field Day in Bangor, Saskatchewan, organized by the Parkland Holistic Management club. The highlight of the tour was the farm of Garry Richards who, after taking a holistic management
Cereals, Crops, Forages

No Shortage Of Topics For Crop School

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“Zero-till is harder in wheat stubble and strip-till seems to be a way to deal with it.” – JOHN HEARD John Heard and his Crop Diagnostic School team have taken the advice that when life delivers lemons, you make lemonade. All that rain that’s hurting Manitoba crops has also hit the diagnostic school’s plots here
Crops, Oilseeds

Cover Crop Program Considered

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Compensat ion for crops damaged or destroyed by recent heavy rains across Manitoba will come from crop insurance and AgriStability, but Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers hasn’t ruled out a conservation cover program. Struthers is also committed to improving drainage. “Our government has been increasing the amounts that have been going into maintenance of drains…,” Struthers
Livestock

BMP Program Approves 180 Projects

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The Manitoba Sustainable Agriculture Practices Program (MSAPP) has completed its first intake of applications for beneficial management practice (BMP) incentive funding for the 2010-11 fiscal year, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers has announced. “The MSAPP is a incentive-based program announced by the province in 2008 to encourage producers to adopt and implement
Crops

Organic No-Till Pioneer Explains Strategy

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When Jeff Moyer, farm manager of the Rodale Institute, started cutting back on tillage out of concern for the long-term health of the soil on the institute’s 330-acre research farm in southeast Pennsylvania, he faced a predictable result. Weeds – and lots of them. “Year after year, our weed pressure was building until it was
Crops, Forages

Proof In The Field

“We have to figure out how to conserve energy on our farms.” – JEFF MOYER The Rodale Institute farmers became convinced that they were on the right track when comparing two side-by-side cornfields. One had been in alfalfa for several years prior, and the other a single season in hairy vetch. The first field that

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