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A view of the cover crop blend and its robust growth on Nick Stokman’s field in October 2022.
Crops

Getting plants to do the tillage

Bio-strip tilling combines cover crop and strip-till philosophies

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Nick Stokman and Ian McDonald have more than 80 years of combined experience in farming, research and extension. Yet they’re relative newcomers to the practice of bio-strip tilling, a means of replacing tillage implements with plants. Why it matters: Bio-strip till broadens the concept of a cover crop, clearing rows for planting and allowing crops to grow after a terminated
Yvonne Lawley of the University of Manitoba is leading a three-year study into the use of cover crops.
Crops, News

Soil health main focus of cover-croppers

Largest look into practice across Prairies at the farm level shows early adopters satisfied with results

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Early adopters of various farm practices often provide valuable information. It was farmers like these that, through trial and error, perfected the zero-till system and direct seeding, for example. But they’re all working in isolation, and maybe swapping a few ideas over the internet or at the occasional conference. The University of Manitoba’s Yvonne Lawley
A handful of soil health projects have secured funding for the next five years in the hope of kick starting soil health practices in the field. (Assiniboine Community College photo)
Crops, Weather

Multi-million-dollar fund greenlights soil health projects

Eight projects to push soil health practices will get funding for the next five years

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Eight soil health projects across Canada will be getting a multi-million-dollar boost in private funding over the next five years. The Weston Family Foundation — the philanthropic arm of the Weston business empire — has slated $10 million for those eight projects through the organization’s soil health initiative, it was announced Feb. 13. The initiative
How much diversity in a cover crop is too much?
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The making of a cover crop mix

How ‘multi-species’ should a multi-species mix get?

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Michael Thiele wants farmers to design their cover crops for whatever they don’t have in their system. The soil health presenter said during an early January workshop in Minnedosa that for some farmers, that might be soil carbon. For others, it might be nitrogen or soil structure or other soil health traits. On the business
Regenerative ag conference hears grazing is vital to environmental outcomes, but that most grain growers don’t want livestock.
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Cows for crops? Searching for the low-hanging fruit on carbon

Building soil carbon must make sense at the bank and in the work day

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There are easy starting points to build soil carbon. Getting them to make sense on the balance sheet is another matter. That was one message heard by a panel of grain producers, livestock producers and production experts who gathered at the recent Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association regenerative agriculture conference in Brandon. Why it matters:
VIDEO: When cover crops and cattle meet
Crops

VIDEO: When cover crops and cattle meet

Partnership with local cattle producer helps improve soil health

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In July, the Manitoba Organic Alliance (MOA) held a cover crop farm tour at Faspa Farm near Manitou, Man. Here, Karen Klassen, farmer and executive director of the MOA, talks about the cover crops that were planted at Faspa Farm, how the cover crops planted in 2021 fared during drought, her partnership with a local
A field tour at the Gemstone Cattle Company gave attendees, many of them long-time practitioners of progressive grazing methods, a chance to get hands-on in examining soil health of this irrigated and rotationally grazed pasture.
Crops

COVER CROPS: Give ’em a shot and have some fun, says soil health expert

The short season here is a challenge, but there are ways to profit from this much-discussed practice

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Glacier FarmMedia – Cover crops aren’t a magic bullet but they’re worth a try. That was the message an American expert delivered to a group of Canadian producers who considered whether the much-hyped soil health practice can work during the short growing season. “Cover crops don’t solve everything,” said soil scientist Abbey Wick. “It’s not
FaRM program cover crop group facilitators Karen Klassen and Scott Beaton during a tour of Klassen’s farm on July 11.
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Cover crop learning program seeks to provide community

Manitoba Association of Watersheds rolls out federal funds for cover crops

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A new cover crop mentorship program will provide the location-specific support that books and Google can’t, says one farmer. “It was just another avenue to get in more knowledge and to be able to work with peers to see what’s worked and not worked for them for our specific geography,” said Kim Wilton, who farms
While there’s much evidence of the benefits of cover crops, they’re not that common in Manitoba.
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Cover crop training, peer group to begin this summer

Groups offer free courses on cover crops and other techniques

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A cover crop training and peer-learning program will kick off with two farm tours this July. It’s one of three free courses through the Farm Resilience Mentorship program (FaRM) hosted in Manitoba by the Manitoba Organic Alliance (MOA) and the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association (CFGA). The course is for both conventional and organic farmers.
Producers at a 2019 field tour take a look into the soil under cover crops.
Crops, News

Eroded topsoil points to need for better ‘armour’

Programs supporting cover crops have spread in popularity, and organizers say they’ve found plenty of interest from farmers, despite learning still being done

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Regenerative agriculturalists have a visually evocative word for ground cover: soil armour. It means crop residue or living plants that hold the soil together and protect it from erosion. The soil could’ve used some armour this spring, according to one first-hand account. “I’ve never seen so much displaced soil,” said Elie-area farmer Justin Girard, referencing

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