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Wetland count begins in southwestern Manitoba

Project will reveal distribution and interaction of wetlands in agro-Manitoba

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Water and land managers will soon have a precise picture of the state of wetlands in southwestern Manitoba as staff with the Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corp. begin a mapping and classification project this spring. Wetlands as small as a quarter of an acre will be included in the study designed to help farmers and drainage
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Both types of shooters promote conservation

Whether they're shooting with a gun or camera, both types of shooters protect wildlife

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What inspires people to support conservation? As concerns grow about the sustainability of our modern society, this question becomes more important. A new study by researchers at Cornell University provides one simple answer: birdwatching and hunting. This survey of conservation activity among rural landowners in Upstate New York considered a range of possible predictors such
Don Cruikshanks, manager of the Deerwood Soil and Water Management Association, at a unique research site in the Pembina Hills where two watersheds meet. The location allows researchers to do comparative analysis of farm management practices related to water and nutrient management.  Photo: Laura Rance
News, Opinion

Agriculture’s role in nutrient loss

Ultimately, storing water on the land isn’t just about flood control, it’s about capitalizing on available nutrients as well

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Checking the news feeds across my conservation agriculture news, I see a common thread. Increased nutrient loads at Lake Erie, Chesapeake Bay, the ever-present “dead zone” of the Gulf of Mexico and calls for more action on the state of Lake Winnipeg. The human contributions are relatively constant, albeit constantly increasing, so when things go
No need to run for cover
Crops, Opinion

No need to run for cover

Have we reached a "tipping point" on the issue of land drainage?

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For farm writers who value their safety, there are usually two cardinal rules — don’t print anything bad about any breed of cattle, and don’t put good news on the front page (you get calls saying that we shouldn’t give the impression that farmers have lots of money). For Manitoba farm writers however, there is
Crops

Conservation not a hippie delusion

Small-scale farmers can implement conservation agriculture and improve soil health 
in developing areas, often by using a mix of science and local knowledge

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The damaging effects of tillage on soils is well documented on Europe and North American soils. So why is that approach still being exported to developing nations, proponents of conservation agriculture asked the recent World Conference on Conservation Agriculture. “We’re taking that paradigm to developing countries, so one has to ask, what is actually going
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ALUS returning to Manitoba’s Little Saskatchewan River Conservation District

The Manitoba-born conservation program has new funding

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ALUS is coming home. Thanks to new government and private funding the Manitoba-born Alternate Land Use Services (ALUS) program is returning as a demonstration conservation program to the Little Saskatchewan River Conservation District north of Brandon, which includes the RM of Blanchard where ALUS was first piloted from 2006 to 2008. ALUS, a community-developed, farmer-delivered
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Turning the sod on water management with multiple benefits

The Pelly Lake Watershed Management project will help control spring runoff, boost hay yields, reduce nutrient loads and produce biofuel

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In a symbolic nod to the past, officials here used an old coal shovel to turn the sod on a project many see as a new future of renewable energy and renewed water quality. After decades of failed attempts to drain a picturesque valley located about five km southeast of Holland so that farmers could
Livestock, Opinion

Beef producers are conservationists

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Manitoba’s beef producers are the single largest collection of conservationists in the province. That may sound like a radical statement to some, but it is in fact a reflection of reality. It is also a fact that is increasingly becoming recognized by legislators and policy-makers. When announcing the new legislation to protect ecosystems, Hon. Gord
While farmers are using fertilizer efficiently today, drainage is mobilizing phosphorus already stored in the soil.  photo: ©thinkstock
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Manitoba farmers credited for using fertilizer efficiently

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Manitoba farmers credited for using fertilizer efficiently New research by the International Institute for Sustainable Development has confirmed what Keystone Agricultural Producers president Doug Chorney already knew about how farmers manage fertilizer in this province. After comparing how much synthetic fertilizer Manitoba farmers use in every municipality across agro-Manitoba against the nutrients removed by crops,
Crops, Weather

Environmental change triggers rapid evolution

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A University of Leeds-led study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of years. Instead, researchers found significant genetically transmitted changes in laboratory populations of soil mites in just 15 generations, leading to a doubling of the age at which the mites reached

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