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Yvonne Lawley talks cover crops during Crops-A-Palooza in Carberry in July.  photos: Alexis Stockford

Calculating a good cover crop plan

Set yourself up for success when it comes to cover crops

By Alexis Stockford August 22, 2019

Farmers will need more than a cursory plan to reap the benefit of cover crops in the Keystone province. Cover crops have gained their champions in Manitoba. The practice is cited among other alternative grazing strategies like bale or swath grazing to extend the grazing season and, arguably, improve soil, according to livestock and forage

A blend of cover crop species is a tasty blend for cattle, but make sure they aren’t yours.

Crops, Livestock

Mixed farmers need not apply for cover crop funding

The province says cover crop funding under Ag Action Manitoba only allows grazing on ‘stockless farms’

By Alexis Stockford August 8, 2019

You can graze cattle on cover crops planted with help from Ag Action Manitoba — as long as they’re not your cattle, that is. Ag Action Manitoba is the province’s vehicle for funding under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) program. Cover crops are among the beneficial management practices (BMPs) it promotes to improve the environment.

Farmers, agronomists, and people with an interest in global soil health met in Carman July 25 and 26 to discuss the challenges of protecting soil.

Farmit Manitoba, Local news

Carman event serves up common ground on soil health practices

Canadian and African agronomists shared perspectives on conservation agriculture at a recent Canadian Foodgrains Bank forum

By Geralyn Wichers August 7, 2019

Jocelyn Velestuk stood in front of the research station classroom filled with people and confessed to an addiction of sorts. “I am obsessed with soil,” the Saskatchewan farmer and agronomist told her audience. “I even had a mud-themed birthday party when I was young,” she said in a later interview. “The first soil science class

Manitoba growers haven’t yet voted with their acres when it comes to accepting corn as a major crop in the province,  despite some modest growth.

Cereals, Crops

Corn’s future should be bright in Manitoba

The results of five years of corn agronomy research show it to be among the most profitable crops but farmers aren’t yet adopting it widely

By Don Norman March 11, 2019

Corn has seen some moderate acreage gains recently as a crop for farmers in Manitoba, and for good reason. The yield per acre seeded has grown exponentially over the past 20 years. But that growth in acres hasn’t been exponential as well. It’s been more in the realm of the slow and steady. For example,

Clubroot galls are the sure sign the disease is present, but dead patches in the field should also be easy to spot at swathing time.

Crops, Oilseeds, Other

The Manitoba clubroot advantage

So far the transmission pattern for the disease suggests farmers in this province still have time to act

By Angela Lovell March 6, 2019

It looks like clubroot is moving just a bit differently in Manitoba and that could be good news for producers trying to slow or stop its spread. Bruce Gossen, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), told the Manitoba agronomist conference earlier this winter there’s a clear pattern in the other Prairie provinces

There’s no shortage of problems to solve on the average farm.

Crops

Overcoming ongoing challenges key to success

Farmer panel says finding solutions through trial and error moves operations forward

By Angela Lovell January 21, 2019

Farming is problem solving in action. There’s always a new challenge and there isn’t always a ready solution. Why it matters: Farms always have challenges to face. These farmers say they looked for permanent solutions, some of which evolved over time. What’s interesting is how every farmer chooses to deal with those challenges. At the

Crops, News

Doing the math on intercropping

Rocket science starts to look easy when farmers delve into the complexity of this system

By Alexis Stockford November 29, 2018

On the surface intercropping is a simple idea — grow two crops together in one field and take advantage of the synergies that result. Proponents say it helps build the farm’s bottom line and soil health while lowering dependence on expensive inputs. But underneath that simple idea is an array of complicated decisions and compounding

Even less competitive crops can benefit from an integrated weed management strategy.

Crops, Other

Crop establishment important for weed management

Combining many tools into an overall integrated weed management strategy is a winner

By Angela Lovell October 30, 2018

There are many components to integrated weed management (IWM) including crop rotation, seeding rates, chemical, cultural and mechanical controls, but one of the most vital aspects of any successful IWM is crop establishment, says Dr. Rob Gulden of the University of Manitoba. At this year’s Crops-A-Palooza event in Portage la Prairie, researchers including Gulden manned

A tour attendee takes a closer look at quinoa variety trials near Melita.

Crops, Local news

To the bin or bust: quinoa a risky proposition

Producers find new challenges with the South American transplant

By Alexis Stockford October 3, 2018

Five years after planting his first quinoa crop, Ryan Pengelly of Tamarack Farms near Erickson has tasted success and failure. He’s placed his direct-marketed product on retail shelves and in farmers’ market stalls. He’s also experienced total crop failures other years. Pengelly, like other producers pioneering quinoa in Manitoba, is looking for agronomic answers in

Straw being loaded off a field in central Manitoba.

Crops

Feed your straw to the herd or feed the soil instead?

How much of a nutritional dent does baling straw make when that residue could have been chopped and spread?

By Alexis Stockford September 25, 2018

Livestock producers have been scrambling for their neighbours’ straw, but growers may have been reluctant to let it leave the field. Attractive straw prices went head to head with the desire to chop and spread as growers weighed the balance between a secondary income and the cost of exporting those nutrients rather than working them

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures climb on post-Thanksgiving trade

U.S. grains: Corn futures set June high on US export demand

California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

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