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Manitoba Agriculture soil management specialist Marla Riekman wants farmers to consider “tillage rotation.”

Consider tillage rotation for improved soil management

High-speed, aggressive tillage can erode fields, especially in hilly terrain

By Allan Dawson September 13, 2018

There’s crop rotation, herbicide rotation and now Marla Riekman is advocating for tillage rotation. “There is the idea of rotational tillage where you can use some of your tillage options and use them in the most appropriate spots in your crop rotation,” Manitoba Agriculture’s soil management specialist said in an interview Sept. 7. Riekman isn’t

Manitoba Agriculture’s Rejean Picard says half of a crop rotation should still be cereals.

Cereals, Crops

Cereals getting shortchanged

How much of your rotation is still in cereals? If it’s less than 50 per cent, you may be short

By Alexis Stockford August 3, 2018

When it comes to getting cereals into the ground Manitoba seems to be coming up short. Provincial specialists say at least half a farm’s arable acres should be planted to these crops, but that’s rarely the case these days. According to MASC data, less than 40 per cent of crop acres in Manitoba were planted

Agronomist Peter Johnson doesn’t like Manitoba’s tight rotations.

Crops, Other

Tight crop rotations in the hot seat

Rotations were a major point as discussions turned to blackleg during this year’s BASF Knowledge Harvest

By Alexis Stockford March 21, 2018

It’s all but impossible to eliminate sclerotinia and blackleg from the field, but it’s also a mistake to assume crop genetics alone will manage the problem. BASF technical service specialist Colleen Redlick said farmers need to broaden their approach during the BASF Knowledge Harvest in Brandon earlier this winter. Resistance breakdown, something the industry has

Manitoba has more crop choices than many locations on the Prairies, which makes a more diverse crop rotation possible.

Crops

Building a ‘better’ crop rotation

Understand all the interactions within a rotation and their effect on yield

By Anastasia Kubinec February 27, 2018

Manitoba is a unique place to farm in the western Canadian Prairies. We enjoy a relatively long growing season, good rainfall (sometimes too much) and have the support of many industry partners, testing a wide range of crop types with adaptation to our climate. With all the crop options we have, a diverse crop rotation

Other crops are seven per cent of the 2017 seeded acres.

Crops, Opinion

Worth a look: Annual production estimates a valuable resource

It can help you calculate your own risk and rewards, but only if you use it

By Laura Rance-Unger February 20, 2018

At first glance, the annual Guidelines for Estimating Crop Production Costs released every January looks like good bedtime reading for insomniacs. But sort through the numbers and analysis, and the story that emerges is full of mystery and intrigue. These production estimates are designed to give farmers a reference for determining which crops make the

Crops, Opinion

Opinion: Ongoing evolution necessary in farming

By David Rourke January 23, 2018

Not only are farmers being trusted to look after the land, crops and animals, we also want to do the best possible job ourselves. The problem is we don’t always have the clearest picture of what the best practices really are, and we of course operate within the confines of present technology and profitability. Take

Yearlings and dry ewes graze on rotational perennials -- grass plants, legumes, and forbs -- at Menoken Farm, a demonstration farm just east of Bismarck, N.D.

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Cover crops ‘essential’ to in-field grazing

Confined livestock do little to help build soil health

By Shannon VanRaes December 29, 2017

Got cows? On your cropland? Jay Fuhrer certainly hopes so. The soil health specialist believes cropland and large ruminants are a natural fit. He advocates turning animals out of the barn and onto the land whenever possible. “Soils, plants and animals evolved together,” he told producers gathered in Winnipeg for the annual Dairy Farmers of

Dr. David Lobb puts a price tag on cumulative soil degradation in the kickoff event to the Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve Soil Health
Committee.

Crops, Oilseeds

Tillage questions posed for Manitoba

David Lobb with the University of Manitoba is researching the cost of soil degradation

By Alexis Stockford December 11, 2017

What does soil degradation cost you? Dr. David Lobb hopes the answer to that question will get producers looking more closely at what’s happening under their feet. The University of Manitoba researcher spoke Nov. 15 in Dauphin at the “Soil Health and Your Bottom Line” workshop, hosted by the Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve. Lobb estimates

Crops

Manitoba sees changing erosion landscape

Manitoba may not have a lot of topography but Dr. David Lobb says it’s enough for tillage erosion, especially as soybeans expand

By Alexis Stockford December 11, 2017

As soybean acreage has exploded, new questions about soil erosion are arising. This past spring a record 2.3 million acres were planted and that has soil specialists expressing some concern about increased tillage practices and the soil impact of the new crop. “When you go to crops like soybeans, the ability of the soil to

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Rotation, rotation and rotation

By John Morriss December 7, 2017

In the early 1980s, the wheat board developed an idea called the Market Assurance Plan (MAP). That was back when there were perennial transport bottlenecks and the whole crop could sometimes not move by the end of the crop year. Even if it could move in total, it could be feast or famine for supply

Daily Network News

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California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

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