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Rethinking the possibilities of trees

The view from Northern Blossom Farms

By Gary Martens July 5, 2013

In this third letter from Northern Blossom Farms, Gary Martens  discusses ways to keep trees on the landscape.

In my first letter I advocated integrating livestock and crops for the synergistic benefits of both components to the farming system. In the next letter, I discussed my crop rotation which includes perennials but is still based mainly on annual crops. In this letter, I want to propose the integration of trees as a beneficial

A mile-high, 100-mile-wide dust storm that blew through Phoenix, Arizona in July 2011 is pictured in this NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Day turned into night as the billowy plumes of dust rolled over the mountains and clogged the skies over and around Phoenix. photo: REUTERS/MODIS Rapid Response Team/NASA/Handout

Did you know?, News

The answer is blowing in the wind Researchers find the West is dustier than it was before

June 26, 2013

The answer is blowing in the wind Researchers find the West is dustier than it was before The amount of dust being blown across the landscape has increased over the last 17 years in large swaths of the West, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The escalation in dust

Crops

Emergency outlet to become permanent

By Shannon VanRaes June 5, 2013

Two permanent outlet channels will be built at a cost of $250 million to lower water levels on Lake Manitoba and prevent a repeat of the severe flooding seen in 2011. “We’re going to do all the studies, get the ball rolling on this in a way that we can bring this into play so

A municipal worker points to where unusually fast water flows washed out a culvert upstream from the Von Bargen farmyard.

News

Ranchers hit by wall of water demand post-flood answers

By Daniel Winters May 29, 2013

Sitting as it does on a kind of plateau north of the highlands of Riding Mountain National Park, it’s hard to believe that this area could be flooded at all. But a flash flood did sweep through the century-old farmyard of cattle producers Karen and Craig Von Bargen on April 28 — causing six-figure losses

Storm clouds hover over the Arabian Sea in the southern Indian state of Kerala. India’s monsoon rains may arrive on the southern Kerala coast around June 3, a late debut that will raise fears any revival for drought-hit tracts of southern and western farmland could be delayed. photo: REUTERS/Sivaram

Country Crossroads

The Bonn Declaration

May 29, 2013

The following is the full text of a declaration released following a conference of 500 leading water scientists who attended the “Water in the Anthropocene” conference earlier this month in Bonn, Germany. In the short span of one or two generations, the majority of the nine billion people on Earth will be living under the

Crops, News, Weather

Half-moon holes produce crops in the sub-Saharan desert

By Ron Friesen April 18, 2013

An innovative water-trapping technique is making the desert bloom in one of the most inhospitable regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Demi-lunes — holes in the shape of a semi-circle — are used to capture and store run-off rainwater. It’s a simple low-tech water-harvesting method which enables crops to grow in a hostile climate. The water conservation

Crops, Weather

New models predict drastically greener Arctic in coming decades

April 9, 2013

New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive “greening,” or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a paper published on March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as much as 50 per cent over the next few

Opinion

Fighting more deserts

By John Morriss April 9, 2013

When I went to the barber in Swift Current in the summer of 1937 to get a haircut and shave, he said the haircut was OK but he had quit shaving people. I asked “how come” and he said he couldn’t keep an edge on the razor anymore. With the terrible dust and the shortage

Crops, News, Weather

Drainage critics predict more water heading our way

By Daniel Winters April 9, 2013

Critics say Saskatchewan’s plan to increase crop production by 10 million tonnes by 2020 will greatly increase illegal drainage — and send more water rushing towards Manitoba. The provincial government’s ambitious plan, which also includes doubling agricultural exports by decade’s end, needs to be coupled with better water management, said Charles Deschamps, a Wadena-based resource

Opinion, Weather

Spring and reality floods

By Laura Rance-Unger March 28, 2013

There’s lots of speculation these days over when the viewing public will grow tired of the so-called “reality TV” phenomenon, when ordinary people open up their lives for the world to watch while they choose a life partner, sing in a glorified karaoke contest, vote someone off the island or eat weird stuff for cash.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit contract highs on tight supply

U.S. grains: Soybeans tumble on doubts over U.S.-China trade progress

Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

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