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As long as ground isn’t frozen, it’s possible to get seed-to-soil contact after snowfall.
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Setting seed for 2024’s marginal acres

Dormant seeding can make the most of marginal land next year

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Seeding isn’t over, if Ducks Unlimited Canada has any say. The organization is promoting a dormant seeding program to boost 2024 forage production and make the most of marginal land. “We’re targeting the areas that farmers have identified as not being the most economically suited to grain cropping,” said DUC forage specialist Charlotte Crawley. “We’re talking kochia-infested areas, foxtail-infested areas
Since Ottawa has paused the carbon tax for heating oil, a compelling case can be made for examining the impact on our entire food supply.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Carbon tax makes Canadian food production less competitive

Recent claims that the carbon tax has little effect are poorly thought out

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The federal government has put a hold on the carbon tax applied to heating oil for the next three years and announced a doubling of the rural supplement in the carbon tax rebate program. In mere minutes, Ottawa transformed the carbon tax into a negotiable political lightning rod and lent credence to carbon tax critics.
Dan Cox presents highlights from the first year of the Prairie Watersheds Climate Program during the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association’s annual regenerative agriculture conference in Brandon Nov. 13-15.
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PWCP inaugural uptake numbers in

Prairie Watersheds Climate Program funds were handed out to 731 Manitoba producers in 2023

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[UPDATED: Nov. 15, 2023] The first year of the Prairie Watersheds Climate Program has given its administrators reason for optimism. Dan Cox, program manager for the Manitoba Association of Watersheds, was on hand during the opening day of the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association’s Regenerative Ag Conference in Brandon Nov. 13 to give an update
A flux tower installed as part of a network of sensors measuring greenhouse gas emissions across Canadian wetlands.
News, Other

Prairie wetlands emissions lower than expected

Research from Ducks Unlimited Canada used high-tech towers to measure greenhouse gas coming off wetlands

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Wetlands in Western Canada may emit significantly less methane than previously thought, according to recent research from Ducks Unlimited Canada. “There was always this notion that Prairie wetlands might be emitting a bunch of methane in the spring as they thaw,” said project lead Pascal Badiou, one of the scientists working for DUC’s research arm,
A new livestream brings anyone to the grasslands, even if only digitally.
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Livestream beams view from Manitoba pasture

Langruth-area ranchers teamed up with McDonalds to highlight the beauty and benefits of Canadian grasslands

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Picture this: It’s a mild October day. You’re sitting outside with a pasture spread out before you. Wind rustles through the long grass and through the sun-gilded leaves of the nearby poplar bush. You hear cattle just out of your line of sight and gentle music is playing. Viewers could get hours of that ambience
Two farmers talking in a field.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Farmers the victims of food company decarbonization

Farmers are bearing the brunt of big food companies’ decarbonization efforts. Here’s why

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More than a third of the global greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity can be attributed to how we produce, process and package food, so it comes as no surprise that many large food-producing and retailing companies are under pressure from investors, politicians and environmental groups to clean up their operations. Several leading fast-food
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
Other, Weather, Weather Vane

The planet continues to get hotter

Global air and ocean temperatures are at record levels

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Let’s talk about record-breaking temperatures. Not daily records, not records for a city or country, but global temperature records. You may have seen an article or two about how September shattered the record for warmest month, after the warmest August on record. It looks like 2023 will be the hottest year on record for the planet. Let’s dig a
The nuts and bolts of grain drying technology were the focus of the latest testimony as Bill C-234 worked its way through the Senate ag committee.
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Senators get technical on Bill C-234

Clean grain drying technology years away, experts tell Senate committee

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Options to fuel farmers’ grain dryers are limited and grain drying without fossil fuels is still years away. That’s the message the Senate’s standing committee on agriculture and forestry heard as expert witnesses were called to give their two cents on the state of grain drying technology. Why it matters: Bill C-234, which would exempt
Counting the stems and tillers of fall-emerged winter cereals will provide a better stand assessment.
Cereals, Crops

Solid footing for Manitoba’s winter cereal crops

The fall had some quirks, but an open seeding window boosted interest in the crop

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Manitoba’s winter cereals are off to a good start. Anne Kirk, cereals specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, and Alex Griffiths, agronomist with the winter wheat program of Ducks Unlimited Canada, both report plenty of fields in good shape, particularly those seeded in the prime window in early to mid-September. “We have had some moisture this September,
A rainbow appears over Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka on Sept. 20.
Other, Weather

Nature’s dazzling light shows

Water droplets and ice crystals in the atmosphere are media for the artwork

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Someone special asked if I could talk about rainbows and other optical weather-related phenomena, which are some of the most captivating displays in nature. These events are created by the interaction of sunlight with water droplets, ice crystals and atmospheric particles. Let’s look into the science behind the formation of rainbows and explore other optical wonders, and shed some light on

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