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New Annual Legume To Round Out The Tool Box

By Daniel Winters July 2, 2009

“It would make a very good forage crop because it has diosgenin – something no other crop has. I call it the Ben Johnson compound because it is like an anabolic steroid that makes muscle.” – SURYA ACHARYA It’s hard to imagine a more interesting crop. Grown for at least 4,000 years in India, fenugreek

Crops

If It’s Too Wet To Drive Across, It’s Too Wet To Seed

By Anastasia Kubinec June 4, 2009

Business Development Specialist – oilseeds Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Delayed seeding due to flooding or wet conditions may have you considering broadcast seeding your canola by floater or aerial application. In general, broadcast seeding is not recommended. This includes seeding canola by aircraft onto very wet fields: if it’s too wet to drive

Crops, Livestock

Cover Crops Go Beyond Nitrogen

By Glen Nicoll March 19, 2009

Like spending money to make money, some North Dakota grain producers are using soil nutrients to grow a soil-building cover crop. They have found seeding a diverse plant community or “cocktail” as a cover crop can do much more than put nitrogen into the soil. At a soil health workshop in Plumas sponsored by Mani

Crops, Forages

Phosphorus Hard To Manage In Organic Systems

By Lorraine Stevenson March 12, 2009

“The problem is every time we’re removing forage, there goes our phosphorus and we’re never replacing it.” – Joanne Thiessen Martens, Organic Agriculture Centre Of Canada Research And Extension Associate Truly sustainable organic production systems recycle nutrients that are removed from the soil by crops. That is why farmers use legumes as cover crops and

Crops, News

Universe In A Clump Of Dirt

By Daniel Winters February 26, 2009

“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

By Laura Rance-Unger February 19, 2009

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

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Tag Archives Cover crop

New Annual Legume To Round Out The Tool Box

If It’s Too Wet To Drive Across, It’s Too Wet To Seed

Cover Crops Go Beyond Nitrogen

Phosphorus Hard To Manage In Organic Systems

Universe In A Clump Of Dirt

Towards A Sustainable Future

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